Great novels are often connected-to (or based-on) real-life events. It's fun to search-for (and uncover) those connections. This Collection features fictional stories with real-life tie-ins.
The real D'Artagnan lives during a time when seeds of the French Revolution are planted.
The search for bodies from the Titanic and their burial.
With Edward Hyde on the run, Henry Jekyll's life returns to normal, until ... Edward Hyde shows-up at Dr. Lanyon's home.
To end the Huguenot threat to the king's power, Richelieu orders the siege of La Rochelle, a Huguenot fortress on the Atlantic coast.
Ambigrams are words which look the same whether you view them right-side-up or upside-down.
The Catholic Church tries to repress scientific ideas which go against Church dogma; the Illuminati, a secret group, allegedly forms to promote scient...
Britons seek help from Angles, Saxons and Jutes to keep out invaders; before long, those helpers also become attacking invaders.
In 1870, Charles MacLaren finds the ruins of the city of Troy after following landscape descriptions from Homer in the Iliad. Later the city of Mycena...
Dostoevsky reluctantly hires Anna Snitkina, who knows the new art of "short hand." She will help complete his new novel.
Dostoevsky reluctantly agrees to work with Anna Snitkina, using the new science of stenography to meet his deadline.
Margaret Mitchell changed the name of her lead character to Scarlett from Pansy after looking through Irish literature and finding "Scarlett" was an I...
Who is Jacob Marley? Is it possible that he can visit his old partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, although Marley's been dead for seven years?
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