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• The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania (second edition, 1727), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (multiple formats at Google)
• Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901), by Stanley John Weyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France (based on the 1922 J. Murray edition), by Stanley John Weyman (Gutenberg text)
• Frederick the Great and His Court: An Historical Romance, by L. Mühlbach, trans. by Mrs. Chapman Coleman (Gutenberg text)
• Henry VIII and His Court, by L. Mühlbach, trans. by Henry Niles Pierce (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe; Count Hannibal; A Gentleman of France (New York : Longmans, Green and Co., 1921), by Stanley John Weyman
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Joseph II and His Court, by L. Mühlbach, trans. by A. de V. Chaudron (Gutenberg text)
• Joseph II and His Court: An Historical Novel (4 volumes in 1; Mobile, AL: S.H. Goetzel, 1864), by L. Mühlbach, trans. by A. de V. Chaudron
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Camille (La Dame Aux Camelias), by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg text)
• Thais, by Anatole France, trans. by Robert B. Douglas (Gutenberg text)

• Aphrodite (Ancient Manners) (New York: Three Sirens Press, 1932), by Pierre Louÿs, trans. by Willis L. Parker, illust. by Frank J. Buttera (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Ancient Manners (Paris: Privately printed for subscribers only, n.d.), by Pierre Louÿs, illust. by Édouard Zier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Aphrodite: Moeurs Antiques (68th edition, in French; Paris: Soc. du Mercure de France, 1896), by Pierre Louÿs (Gutenberg text)

• March to the Sea, by David Weber and John Ringo (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• March Upcountry, by David Weber and John Ringo (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• The Prince of Graustark (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Prince of Graustark (1914), by George Barr McCutcheon (Gutenberg text)
• Truxton King: A Story of Graustark (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1909), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by Harrison Fisher
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• We Few (included on a Baen CD image), by David Weber and John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (with illustrations), by Samuel Johnson (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Alroy (modern critical edition, based on the 1871 and 1833 editions), by Benjamin Disraeli, ed. by Sheila A. Spector (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Alroy: or, The Prince of the Captivity (from an M. Walter Dunne edition, ca. 1904), by Benjamin Disraeli, illust. by Clare Victor Dwiggins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • HTML at americanliterature.com

• The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses (London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1699-1700), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, trans. by Isaac Littlebury and Abel Boyer (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Prince of Carency: A Novel (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, 1719), by Madame d'Aulnoy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Königliche Hoheit (in German; Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, c1909), by Thomas Mann (Gutenberg text)
• Royal Highness (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1909, translation first published 1916), by Thomas Mann, trans. by A. Cecil Curtis (Gutenberg text)

• The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses (London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1699-1700), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, trans. by Isaac Littlebury and Abel Boyer (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• "William, by the Grace of God" (second edition; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1917), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Warbreaker (free online edition, c2009), by Brandon Sanderson (HTML with commentary at brandonsanderson.com)
• The Goose Girl (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co., 1909), by Harold MacGrath, illust. by J. André Castaigne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Księżniczka: Powieść, Uwieńczona Nagrodą Konkursową w Warszawie (in Polish; Chicago: Nakładem i Drukiem "Zgody" Organu Zwiazku Narodowego Polskiego w Stanch Zjednoczonych Północnej Ameriki, 1889), by Zofia Urbanowska (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Aethiopian Romance, by Heliodorus of Emesa, ed. by F. A. Wright, trans. by Thomas Underdown (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The Wild Irish Girl (2 volumes in 1; Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1855), by Lady Morgan (multiple formats at Google)
• Huntingtower, by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• Ill Met by Moonlight (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• This Scepter'd Isle (on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

• The Princess Aline, by Richard Harding Davis
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess (Cleveland: Lauer and Mattill, 1891), by Joseph J. Walters
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
• "Indiscretions" of Lady Susan (London: T. Butterworth, 1922), by Susan Mary Keppel Townley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• "Indiscretions" of Lady Susan (Lady Susan Townley) (New York: D. Appleton and company, 1922), by Susan Mary Keppel Townley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Own Affairs (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by Princess of Belgium Louise, trans. by Maude M. C. Ffoulkes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• My Own Affairs (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1921), by Princess of Belgium Louise, trans. by Maude M. C. Ffoulkes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reminiscences of Diplomatic Life: Being Stray Memories of Personalities and Incidents Connected with Several European Courts and Also with Life in South America Fifty Years Ago (London: A. and C. Black, 1913), by Lady Macdonell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Curial, by Alain Chartier, trans. by William Caxton (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875, From Contemporary Letters, by L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone (Gutenberg text)
• Things I Know About Kings, Celebrities, and Crooks (London: E. Nash and Grayson, Ltd., 1923), by William Le Queux (page images at HathiTrust)

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