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The Wanderer - Fanny Burney
The Wanderer - Fanny Burney
- Author: Fanny Burney
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. "Who is "Miss Ellis?" Why did she board a ship from France to England at the beginning of the French revolution? Anyway, the loss of her purse made this...
The Children of the New Forest (version 2) - Frederick MARRYAT
The Children of the New Forest (version 2) - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Historical
The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during...
Max - Katherine Cecil Thurston
Max - Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Author: Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Genre: Historical Fiction
On a trans-continental train journey into Paris, Max, a young adventurer determined to make his way as an artist, meets Blake, a well-to-do Irishman. Blake helps Max set up a studio in Montmartre and they enjoy the life of Paris and each other's...
A Group of Noble Dames - Thomas Hardy
A Group of Noble Dames - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Short Stories
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue—the faintest tradition of what went on behind...
Romola - George Eliot
Romola - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Historical Fiction
George Eliot's own favorite among her novels, this novel tells the story of Romola, the intelligent daughter of a blind scholar, who is falling in love with a man who is going to change her life and the politics of Florence in a way she doesn't...
Unto Caesar - Baroness Orczy
Unto Caesar - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
"The State," he said, speaking at least as haughtily as Dea Flavia herself, "hath agreed to accept the sum of twenty aurei for this slave. 'Tis too late now to make further bids for her." But a pair of large blue eyes, cold as the waters of the...
By What Authority? - Robert Hugh Benson
By What Authority? - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
Two wealthy families are neighbors in Elizabethan England; one is staunchly Catholic and the other is devoutly Protestant. The attractive young scions of the families are drawn to each other in friendship and love, but are kept apart by their...
War and Peace, Book 06: 1808-1810 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 06: 1808-1810 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, 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...
Indian Summer - William Dean Howells
Indian Summer - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian summer aspect applies to a...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military / True Crime
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guerre is suspected of no serious crimes, his imposter, Arnaud du Tilh, engaged in fraud and adultery while...
Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier - Charles KING
Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier - Charles KING
- Author: Charles KING
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Five stories of Army life in the mid to late 19th century. Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He wrote and edited over 60 books and novels. Among his list of titles are Campaigning with Crook, Fort...
A Tale of Two Cities (version 2) - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) 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 is among the most famous works of fiction. The novel depicts the plight of the...
The Prairie - A Tale - James Fenimore Cooper
The Prairie - A Tale - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition....
Father Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to have been an inspiration to Charles Dickens and Henry James as well as others, the novel seeks to portray the...
The Keeper of the Bees - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
The Keeper of the Bees - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by the ocean, tending bees which he knows nothing about, and other unlikely charges who in their circuitous ways,...
The Surgeon's Daughter - Sir Walter Scott
The Surgeon's Daughter - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Surgeon's Daughter is an historical novel, originally part of the Chronicles of the Canongate stories, later published on its own, in 1827. - Summary by Deon Gines...
Under Wellington’s Command - G. A. Henty
Under Wellington’s Command - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Under Wellington's Command is the sequel to With Moore at Corunna. The book picks up where the last book left off when Portugal is freed from the French in 1809. Terence O'Connor is still in command of the Minho regiment of Portuguese, and serves...
Old Mortality - Sir Walter Scott
Old Mortality - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Old Mortality is part of the Waverley series by Walter Scott. Set in southwest Scotland in the late 1600s, during the period of the Covenanters, it includes the victory at Loudoun Hill and the defeat at Bothwell Bridge. - Summary by Deon Gines...
The Duchess of Wrexe - Hugh Walpole
The Duchess of Wrexe - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Rachel, a spirited young girl, has to choose between Francis Breton, her difficult cousin who has been disowned by the family, and Roddy Seddon, a conventional and rather boring but wealthy young man. She chooses Roddy but the marriage begins to...
The Gods and Mr Perrin - Hugh Walpole
The Gods and Mr Perrin - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book is probably better known under the title ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Traill’, later made into a well-known film in 1948. Perrin and Traill are masters at a grim old-fashioned second-rate boarding public school in Cornwall – Perrin has been there many...
The Glory of Clementina Wing - William John Locke
The Glory of Clementina Wing - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book follows the adventures of two main characters - Clementina Wing, a talented artist in her mid 30's with no social graces and Ephraim Quixtus, an older bookish gentleman whose quiet life is abruptly changed for the worse one day. Although...
Where Love Is - William John Locke
Where Love Is - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Norma Hardacre is a member of smart London society. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to a penniless artist named Jimmie Padgate. However, she gets engaged to Morland King, a wealthy man who sees her as a convenient trophy wife as he furthers his...
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century - Baroness Orczy
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This historical novel takes place in Kent in 1657, and focuses on a local nobleman who stops at nothing to gain wealth, and his ward who is a victim of his crimes. The puritan influence and social cultural mores of the time provide interesting parts...
Redgauntlet - Sir Walter Scott
Redgauntlet - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Redgauntlet is an historical novel about a fictitious third Jacobite rebellion. It takes place mostly in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1765. It is thought to be the most autobiographical of Scott's novels. - Summary by Deon Gines...
St. Elmo - Augusta Jane Evans
St. Elmo - Augusta Jane Evans
- Author: Augusta Jane Evans
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical and worldly, she is as beautiful as a nymph. The book was very popular during the 19th century and inspired...
The Heart of Mid-Lothian - Sir Walter Scott
The Heart of Mid-Lothian - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
An historical novel set in Scotland in 1736, involving a riot and surrounding drama. - Summary by Deon Gines...
The Gambler (version 2) - Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Gambler (version 2) - Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Author: Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book follows the life of Clodagh Asshlin, an Irish girl brought up with her younger sister by her spendthrift father in the wilds of the Irish countryside. When her father dies, she marries the much older friend of her father who pays off all...
The Cloister and the Hearth (version 2) - Charles Reade
The Cloister and the Hearth (version 2) - Charles Reade
- Author: Charles Reade
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Set in the 15th century, the Cloister and the Hearth is a story Gerald Eliassoen, a young scribe and illuminator, who travels through seven different countries. Gerald is afraid of persecution from a burgomaster, and so he escapes from Rome to...
Round About a Great Estate - Richard JEFFERIES
Round About a Great Estate - Richard JEFFERIES
- Author: Richard JEFFERIES
- Genre: Historical Fiction
John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) wrote of country life, natural history, and agricultural practice at a time when the industrial revolution was bringing great change to long-settled patterns of English life. In this book, a work of fiction, he...
Colonel Greatheart - H. C. BAILEY
Colonel Greatheart - H. C. BAILEY
- Author: H. C. BAILEY
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This is a story of the English Civil War where a witching woman conquerors hearts and marks....
Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch - Wilhelm Meinhold
Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch - Wilhelm Meinhold
- Author: Wilhelm Meinhold
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Wilhelm Meinhold, a Pomeranian priest working on the Island of Usedom, relates the story of Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The author assures us that the story he has to tell is based on a manuscript he found in the parish church, originally...
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand - Henry Cadwallader Adams
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand - Henry Cadwallader Adams
- Author: Henry Cadwallader Adams
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Historical
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story includes accounts of the Zulu-Boer wars. - Summary by Ingrid Kennedy...
Framley Parsonage (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
Framley Parsonage (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. It was first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860, then in book form in 1861.The hero of Framley Parsonage, Mark Robarts,...
Regiment of Women - Clemence DANE
Regiment of Women - Clemence DANE
- Author: Clemence DANE
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is about the relationship between two teachers at a private (and elitist) girls' school. One of them, Clare Hartill, is in her mid-thirties and runs the school in all but name. Most of the...
Saint Joan: Preface - George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan: Preface - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Drama / Tragedy
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play reflects Shaw's belief that the people involved in...
The Brethren (Version 2) - H. Rider Haggard
The Brethren (Version 2) - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
A tale of love, romance and chivalry set amongst the backdrop of the climactic months before the opening of the Kings' Crusade. Two English knights are in love with the same maiden. Their devotion and bravery is tested when their beloved is...
The Brown Brethren - Patrick MacGill
The Brown Brethren - Patrick MacGill
- Author: Patrick MacGill
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Brown Brethren tells the story of friends and comrades who fought together during World War I on the Western Front. The principal characters belong to the London Irish Rifles, a volunteer regiment whose 1st Battalion was mobilized immediately...
Short Stories (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Short Stories (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This is a collection of short stories written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Dostoevsky), who is arguably better-known for his lengthy, contemplative novels. Several of his trademark philosophical, political and religious themes are interwoven throughout...
Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage children. He has sought the quiet life on the frontier, although he is a friend to all and never turns away a stranger. One evening, one such stranger arrives at his door, asking for shelter for the...
The Village in the Jungle - Leonard Woolf
The Village in the Jungle - Leonard Woolf
- Author: Leonard Woolf
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twentieth-century. He focuses his story on one poor family in a jungle village as they struggle to survive, not...