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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
• The tale of Genji (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki and Arthur Waley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The court of Sigismund Augustus, or Poland in the sixteenth century. (Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834), by Alexander Bronikowski, Walerjan Skorobohaty Krasiński, and Valerian Krasinski (page images at HathiTrust)
• At the court of Catherine the Great (Stokes, 1899), by Frederick Whishaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iskander : a romance of the court of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great (The World Railway Pub. Co., 1903), by Marshall Monroe Kirkman, August Petrtyl, and World Railway Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts (London : Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, M,DCC,XXVI [1726], 1726), by Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Motte (page images at HathiTrust)
• An imperial lover, by Mary Imlay Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kreivi Hannibal: Historiallinen romaani Ranskan hovista (in Finnish), by Stanley John Weyman, trans. by Aili Somersalo (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived, by Ronald Firbank, illust. by Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Great Court Scandal, by William Le Queux, illust. by C. Dudley Tennant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pasáček Ali: Pověst z východu (in Czech), by František Omelka (Gutenberg ebook)
• Under the Rose, by Frederic Stewart Isham (Gutenberg ebook)
• The peasant and the prince (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1885), by Harriet Martineau (page images at Florida)
• Travels into several remote nations of the world by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships, in four parts ... (London: J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883), by Jonathan Swift, illust. by Adolphe Lalauze (page images at Florida)
• The peasant and the prince (London et al.: George Routledge and Sons, 1875), by Harriet Martineau, illust. by Francis Arthur Fraser and Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Travels of Lemuel Gulliver (London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1878), by Jonathan Swift (page images at Florida)
• Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world (London: Willoughby & Co., 1862), by Jonathan Swift, Ella Park Lawrence, and George Appleton Lawrence, illust. by Frederick Peter Davies and Barrow (page images at Florida)

• Camille (La Dame Aux Camelias), by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg text)
• Thais, by Anatole France, trans. by Robert B. Douglas (Gutenberg text)
• The lady of the camellias (P. F. Collier, 1902), by Alexandre Dumas, Octave Uzanne, and Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Fin de Chéri (in French), by Colette (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kamelianainen (in Finnish), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Felix Borg (Gutenberg ebook)
• Thais (in Finnish), by Anatole France, trans. by L. Onerva (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Jester, by LM (Leslie Moore), illust. by Robert Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
• Truxton King; a story of Graustark (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1909), by George Barr McCutcheon, Harrison Fisher, and Ralph Ellison Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rasselas : a tale (S. Andrus, 1827), by Samuel Johnson, R. B. Adam, Oliver Pelton, Richard Westall, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truxton King : a story of Graustark (Grosset & Dunlap, 1909), by George Barr McCutcheon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little lame prince and his travelling cloak. (Rand McNally co., 1928), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and Hope Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rāsilās al-ʻaẓīm (880-04 [Miṣr?] : Maṭbaʻat Jarīdat al-Ḥāwī, 1917., 1917), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The prince and the pauper; a tale for young people of all ages. (B. Tauchnitz, 1881), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia (J.M. Dent ;, 1926), by Samuel Johnson, Douglas Percy Bliss, and G. K. Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Majesteit (in Dutch), by Louis Couperus (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prinssi ja kerjäläispoika (in Finnish), by Mark Twain, trans. by Tyko Hagman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Majesty: A Novel, by Louis Couperus, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, contrib. by Stephen McKenna (Gutenberg ebook)

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