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A diary of a Chinese Miner

by MaybeItWasNeverLove

Short Story / Historical Fiction

July 12, 2013

90 days reads: 70

Comments: 2

Shelves: 2

Summary

During the racist times of the gold rush, a Chinese miners travels to Australia in search of fortune. But with the westerners hatred so strong and the surroundings so foreign, what would you do if you were the odd one out?

Attack of the Dead Men

by dylanfourie02

Short Story / Historical Fiction

August 05, 2021

90 days reads: 65

Shelves: 2

Summary

The Attack of the Dead Men was a battle between the German and the Russian army during the Great War at Osowiec Fortress.

Comment on the moral code of Webster as seen in the play,The Duchess of Malfi.

by Rituparna Ray Chaudhuri

Essay / Historical Fiction

September 20, 2013

90 days reads: 60

Shelves: 1

Summary

"The Duchess of Malfi" is John Webstar's finer plays. here, Webstar not only shows a much firmer stagecraft than his earlier efforts,but has also revealed powers of gaiety and playfulness and an understanding of the heart,that hardly to be looked far from one who voluntarily elected the tragedy of blood as his medium. at least two of the characters, the Duchess of Malfi and her husband Antonio are robust and healthy figures who even under the stress of torture,keep their humanity." (Dr.S.Sen)

Discord

by LisaW

Short Story / Historical Fiction

November 26, 2017

90 days reads: 57

Summary

A French marching band is forced to work for the Germans after the invasion of their town, causing a rift between the band's members.

when my name was keoko

by BionicleTeridax

Book / Historical Fiction

March 02, 2014

90 days reads: 53

Shelves: 1

Summary
Chapters

This book is not my works but the book review is

13 Days Movie Review

by William Liu

Miscellaneous / Historical Fiction

March 19, 2015

90 days reads: 41

Summary

13 Days is a film directed by Roger Donaldson about this Cold War. Here, I analyze the movie's strong and weak points, and identify its historical strengths.

Day at the Colosseum

by Matthew Bissonnette

Short Story / Historical Fiction

December 09, 2011

90 days reads: 40

Comments: 2

Summary

A man spends the day watching the violence of the Roman games, but what he will witness will change everything.

Rosarito- translation from Spanish (Ramon del Valle Inclan)

by chord0

Short Story / Historical Fiction

June 21, 2008

90 days reads: 37

Comments: 2

Summary

A translation by me from the Spanish of a short story by Ramon del Valle Inclan written in the 1930's. Spanish life and customs thru the eyes of a small girl of the nobility during the Spanish Civil War.

The Demon Boy

by SimianCity

Book / Historical Fiction

October 23, 2020

90 days reads: 37

Comments: 51

Shelves: 2

Summary
Chapters

Casper (formerly known as "John Doe" or simply "the boy") didn't ask to come to Glenholm. Nobody asked him if he wanted to be here either. For better or for worse, he's stuck living under the same roof as Glenholm's own notorious witch man. Balor's not a bad guy actually. It's Myr, the lunatic drunk who gets his kicks from threatening Casper on pain of death every now and again, that's giving him the most problems. Needless to say, Casper isn't leaving soon enough. - - - - - Updates sporadically. Possibly Friday... Eventually.

The Botito King (Based on the life of Casper Holstein Father of the Numbers Lottery)

by James Baker

Book / Historical Fiction

June 30, 2022

90 days reads: 30

Summary
Chapters

“The Bolito King 103,582 words” is a fictional account based on the life of Casper Holstein, millionaire, philanthropist, and father of the Harlem numbers racket. His policy game was established a good ten years before Madam Queen or Bumpy Johnson while his financial and humanitarian contributions to the Harlem Renaissance and the Virgin Islands have been lost in obscurity. I have inserted a sample clipping that I used for a reference and below is a mini-synopsis of my manuscript. I hope you find his story interesting because it has haunted me for many months. Synopsis Of Material Covered Casper Holstein was born December 7, 1876, in Christiansted, St. Croix, then the Danish West Indies, now the US Virgin Islands. He came to the states as a teenager, serving in the Navy, working as a bellhop, as well as working for a wealthy Jewish family. When they lost their money, Holstein supported them, even paying for their funerals. He also owned a gambling establishment called the Turf Club, and was active in black fraternal organizations and the New York Virgin Islands Association. Holstein entered serious gambling after WWI when he devised a new system for determining the daily winning number. The stock clearing houses released a daily total that was published in the newspapers. In Holstein’s system, the winner was certain digits of that number, a number truly random and unable to be fixed. For those who bet, the odds were 999 to 1, just enough to make enough numbers hit to keep hope alive. Holstein was active in public life, contributing generously to worthwhile causes. He supported the Vincent Sanitorium, the nationalist Garvey Movement, and it was he who provided prizes for Opportunity magazine’s literary awards – which discovered and recognized much of Harlem’s young talent. On September 23, 1928, Casper Holstein was kidnapped, allegedly by gangster Arthur Fleggenheimer “Dutch Schultz”. Holstein finally retired from the Harlem’s numbers racket after a one-year stint in prison in 1937 and it was eventually taken over by the mob. Holstein had enough money to continue working in real estate and mortgages. When he…

Nart Characters

by Zaina El-Said

Essay / Historical Fiction

September 30, 2016

90 days reads: 29

My Friend, Norma Jean

by jerry lucero

Short Story / Historical Fiction

March 04, 2012

90 days reads: 28

Comments: 4

Summary

Historical Fiction about America's Sweetheart, Marilyn Monroe.

A Critical Evaluation on Christopher Marlowe's Edward The Second- The Way I Do.

by RituparnaRayChaudhuri

Essay / Historical Fiction

February 26, 2017

90 days reads: 28

Summary

Christopher Marlowe wrote Edward The Second in 1590..comprises the background information on the Elizabethan Age and the Concept of Tragedy - "Our lady's first love is not wavering; My life for thine, she will have Gaveston."

The Oracle

by Agbetsi Divine Kordzo

Script / Historical Fiction

April 13, 2020

90 days reads: 28

Summary

An ancient village in Volta Region of Ghana with their customs and traditions...

MARK TWAIN, POLITICS, AND A GREAT BEEF CONTRACT

by John Ross Hart

Short Story / Historical Fiction

October 21, 2020

90 days reads: 28

Summary

A look back at Mark Twain's story about a great beef contract, political hassles and, and why government has never changed.

Ooh.. Africa my Motherland

by Literature kingLehaha Alfred

Essay / Historical Fiction

July 07, 2016

90 days reads: 27

Summary

This is a describtion of Africa as a continent being used as a pawn by superpowers

Pneumonic Poem to remember Henry the Eighth’s wives

by Sathyam-Drew

Poem / Historical Fiction

October 15, 2019

90 days reads: 27

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

Field Of Tears

by Declan J Connaughton

Short Story / Historical Fiction

January 09, 2011

90 days reads: 27

Comments: 1

Summary

Short story set during the Irish Civil war about inhumanity.

Atlantic Inferno: the story of the Lakonia

by Logan McGregor

Short Story / Historical Fiction

March 08, 2023

90 days reads: 25

Summary

Edward is a 2nd class passenger aboard Greek lines 'Lakonia', an ocean liner built in 1930. when the ship bursts into flames, Edward is faced with the possibility of being in a new country, with no parents, as he wonders if his father is alive. unsure of his fate, with nothing except his thoughts as he drifts through the Atlantic.

Dhanurana

by Orion and Opal

Book / Historical Fiction

May 17, 2023

90 days reads: 23

Summary
Chapters

Out of an unnaturally quiet night, a bedraggled woman in noble finery requests access to the southern capital. Who she is has been lost to time for most, but her continued existence will throw everything further out of balance. Janurana had barely survived her royal house's destruction at the hands of foreign invaders, surviving day by day in the scattered pocket forests and arid shrub lands, constantly escaping the ghosts of her past. The south has barely survived their recent Pyrrhic victory against the north immediately followed by a coup. The north is bloodied but unbowed, on the brink of civil war, but still ready to take up arms against the southern invaders. The leaders of the south cannot afford another obstacle. And Janurana is just that. Yet her chance meeting with a woman expelled from the warrior class named Dhanur gives them both a chance to avenge the ones they loved, finish what they failed to do, and return to a normal life. *** Set in a fantasized bronze age India featuring LGBT female leads. Told in an omniscient pov with glances into multiple characters.