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The White Company - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The White Company - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight. Raised by Cistercian Monks and rejected by a violent elder brother, Alleyn Edricson takes service with...
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey CHAUCER
- Author: Geoffrey CHAUCER
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and...
Anna Karenina, Book 2 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 2 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
In Part 2, Kittyβs health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to pursue each other and become the talk of polite society, to the chagrin of Karenin. (Summary by Mary Ann )...
The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days - Baroness Orczy
The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
The Bronze Eagle is a romantic historical novel which takes place during the return of Napoleon and his attempt to reestablish his Empire. The main character is a rich English businessman, who falls in love with an aristocratic young woman, with...
The Black-Bearded Barbarian - Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
The Black-Bearded Barbarian - Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
- Author: Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam)...
Beyond - John Galsworthy
Beyond - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Gyp, the daughter of ex-Major Charles Claire Winton, at the age of 23 marries Fiorsen, a Swedish violin virtuoso. Her mother, the wife of another man, has been Winton's mistress; she had died when Gyp was born. A highly sensitive child, Gyp has...
A Daughter of the Land (version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
A Daughter of the Land (version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life she's been denied. She dreams of a husband, children, and a farm, yet her actions have far-reaching...
War and Peace, Book 11: 1812 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 11: 1812 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡ, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡΡ, Voyna i mirβ) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
Bonnie Prince Charlie: a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden - G. A. Henty
Bonnie Prince Charlie: a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This is a tale of the son of a Scottish officer, who gets arrested for helping a Jacobite agent. Set during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland in 1755, the boy escapes and makes it to France and shares some adventures with Prince Charlie. - Summary...
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment, Conrad being reputed to have detested...
Windsor Castle, Book 6 - William Harrison Ainsworth
Windsor Castle, Book 6 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Book 6 - Jane Seymour. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl of Surrey...
Master and Man - Leo Tolstoy
Master and Man - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town quickly 'for business'. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice...
The Young Visiters - Daisy ASHFORD
The Young Visiters - Daisy ASHFORD
- Author: Daisy ASHFORD
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena introduces his young lady friend Ethel to a genuine gentleman named Bernard and, to his irritation, they hit it...
Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
In this third installment from the βRagged Dickβ series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets young Mark Manton. Mark is a match boy plagued by bad luck and an even worse guardian. But, with new friends,...
The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading) - Amelia E. BARR
The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading) - Amelia E. BARR
- Author: Amelia E. BARR
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Historical Fiction
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in America during the last decade of the 18th century with an excellent love story plot. Some of those issues...
Raiding with Morgan - Byron A. DUNN
Raiding with Morgan - Byron A. DUNN
- Author: Byron A. DUNN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
It is a fictional tale of cavalry actions during the U.S. Civil War, under General John Morgan. (Summary by M. Craun)...
Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross - Florence Morse Kingsley
Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
This is a unique sequel to the book Titus: A Comrade of the Cross written in a very different style, though none the less memorable, full of excitement and suspense! The author combines several stories together with great skill and ease, creating...
The Sword of Antietam - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Sword of Antietam - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
"The Sword of Antietam" tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in "The Guns of Bull Run" and continued through "The Guns of Shiloh" and "The Scouts of Stonewall." The young Northern hero, Dick Mason, and his...
The Black Dwarf - Sir Walter Scott
The Black Dwarf - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Black Dwarf is the first of the βTales of My Landlordβ series, which also includes The Bride of Lammermoor and The Heart of Midlothian. The third preliminary chapter depicts two horsemen arriving at the Wallace Inn in Gandercleugh, where one of...
Felix Holt, The Radical - George Eliot
Felix Holt, The Radical - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is a sincere radical. The setting of the book, the 1832 parliament election, is used to discuss the social problems...
The Marriage of William Ashe - Mary Augusta Ward
The Marriage of William Ashe - Mary Augusta Ward
- Author: Mary Augusta Ward
- Genre: Historical Fiction
William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a young, flighty and strange girl who, far from supporting her husband in his career, instead does exactly as she pleases. The book follows the course of their marriage to a...
The Manchester Man - Isabella Varley BANKS
The Manchester Man - Isabella Varley BANKS
- Author: Isabella Varley BANKS
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to commercial success mirrors the rise of the city at the heart of the industrial revolution. Mrs George Linnaeus...
With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War - G. A. Henty
With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, maintained by Prussia--then a small and comparatively insignificant...
Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives - Oliver Optic
Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Family / Religion
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves before the Grant family, and asked for counsel and assistance. The party consisted of two boys and a girl, and...
A Prince of Good Fellows - Robert BARR
A Prince of Good Fellows - Robert BARR
- Author: Robert BARR
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Robert Barr (1849 - 1912) was a Scottish Journalist, editor, humorist and author. A Prince of Good Fellows was published in 1902, and is a series of Historical Fiction stories about the young James V, King of Scots (1512 β 1542). The chapters are...
The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century - G. A. Henty
The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure
"Of all the chapters of history, there are few more interesting or wonderful than that which tells the story of the rise and progress of Venice." And thus begins another swashbuckling adventure by G. A. Henty. The great city-state is in trouble from...
War and Peace, Book 03: 1805 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 03: 1805 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡ, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡΡ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
A Tale of Two Cities (version 3) - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel...
The Fifth Queen - Ford Madox Ford
The Fifth Queen - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court (1906), Privy Seal (1907) and The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908), which...
The Worldβs Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland - Eva March Tappan
The Worldβs Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The Worldβs Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
Anna Karenina, Book 4 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 4 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 4, Anna's husband considers drastic measures to address the flagrant infidelity of his wife, while Kitty and Levin...
Trail's End - George W. OGDEN
Trail's End - George W. OGDEN
- Author: George W. OGDEN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Westerns
When an agriculture professor wanders into a wicked Kansas cowtown in order to experiment raising wheat, both the professor and the town get more than they bargain for. A wild and wooly Western. (Summary by Jeff Chesnut)...
A Prisoner of Morro - Upton Sinclair
A Prisoner of Morro - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckraking novel, The Junglehref>, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction. Many of these works were written under...
Miss Mackenzie - Anthony Trollope
Miss Mackenzie - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself with no one to care for, and in possession of a moderate fortune. Having money, she is now much sought-after...
Ride Proud, Rebel! - Andre Norton
Ride Proud, Rebel! - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure
Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with his harsh grandfather, who despised him since his birth because of his mother's runaway marriage to a Texan....
You Wobbly Wink-Eyed Little Wop - J. Clarence Edwards
You Wobbly Wink-Eyed Little Wop - J. Clarence Edwards
- Author: J. Clarence Edwards
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
To My Buddies Of the U. S. Armyβsome three million in number; Of the 90th Division more specifically, and Particularly to the 315th Engineers, to which Regiment I was βattached for rations,β Being a Liability of Company βE,β This little Volume is...
Fifty Famous Stories Retold - James Baldwin
Fifty Famous Stories Retold - James Baldwin
- Author: James Baldwin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an event in history. Hear how Alexander the Great tamed Bucephalus, the kindness of Doctor Goldsmith, William...
When God Laughs, and Other Stories - Jack London
When God Laughs, and Other Stories - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, to the trials of life and travel on many frontiers, to an allegory about a king who desired a nose. London is...
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch - H. Rider Haggard
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is a great book if you're looking for an adventure filled novel. It takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and describes some of the horrors that happened giving you an idea of what it was really like to live during that time period. Follow...
Windsor Castle, Book 4 - William Harrison Ainsworth
Windsor Castle, Book 4 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Book 4 - Cardinal Wolsey. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl of Surrey...