Books like Ogniem i mieczem
12 books with a reading profile close to Ogniem i mieczem by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah Curtin. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, the narrative follows frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye, and his Mohican companions, Chingachgook and Uncas.
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The Source
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
The narrative centers on an archaeological excavation at Tell Makor, a fictional mound in northern Israel, during the early 1960s.
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Child's History of England (Annotated and Illustrated)
by Charles Dickens, Toby Davidson
history, narrative
In this work, Charles Dickens provides a chronological narrative of English history spanning from the ancient Roman invasions under Julius Caesar to the seventeenth-century Glorious Revolution.
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Johnny Tremain
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in revolutionary Boston, the story follows fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain, a talented silversmith's apprentice whose career is destroyed when a molten silver accident leaves his hand permanently disfigured.
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The Scottish Chiefs
by Jane Porter
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Jane Porter’s historical novel recounts the life of William Wallace during the Scottish Wars of Independence against King Edward I of England.
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Sir Nigel
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set during the opening decades of the Hundred Years' War, this historical novel follows Nigel Loring, an impoverished scion of a noble house.
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Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. Kuniczak
history, narrative
Set in Nero's Rome, "Quo Vadis" tells the story of the Roman patrician Marcus Vinicius and his passionate, yet conflicted, love for the Christian Ligia.
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The Robe
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Marcellus Gallio, a Roman tribune stationed in Palestine, participates in the execution of Jesus of Nazareth and wins the condemned man’s seamless robe in a dice game.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
by Lew Wallace
history, narrative
Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in first-century Jerusalem, is betrayed by his childhood friend, the Roman officer Messala.
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