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Anna Karenina, Book 6 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 6 - 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. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society....
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advised schemes first alienate his patrimony and at last cost him his life. His younger brother, sweet-tempered...
Dash for Khartoum - G. A. Henty
Dash for Khartoum - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Travel Fiction / Historical Fiction
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid returns, intent on using the boys to get money. When the boy she chooses first refuses to help and instead...
Barnaby Rudge (version 3) - Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In "Romeo and Juliet" fashion, Chester's son and Haredale's niece wish to marry, but their relatives oppose the union. A tale of love and intrigue set...
Anna Karenina, Book 8 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 8 - 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 8, Vronsky leaves for the Servian war, unable to live without Anna and hoping to die. Back at his farm with a...
Doom Castle - Neil MUNRO
Doom Castle - Neil MUNRO
- Author: Neil MUNRO
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of "Drimdarroch", whom he swore revenge. After a perilous...
His Grace of Osmonde - Frances Hodgson Burnett
His Grace of Osmonde - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
His Grace of Osmonde, being the portions of that nobleman's life omitted in the relation of his Lady's story presented to the world of fashion under the title of 'A Lady of Quality'(Summary by Frances Hodgson Burnett)...
Kenilworth - Sir Walter Scott
Kenilworth - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, including the Queen herself, Scott presents the sad history and tragic consequences of the secretive marriage of...
The Antiquary - Andrew Lang
The Antiquary - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Illegitimacy, false identity, and bankruptcy are the major elements of Sir Walter Scott's 1816 novel, The Antiquary. Set in the period of the French Revolution, the novel's hero, Lovel, struggles to gain repute and the hand of his beloved despite...
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3) - Alexandre Dumas
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction
The d'Artagnan Romances are six volumes that intertwine exciting events (real and fictionalized) from 17th-century Europe and the life of the most adored French musketeer of that period, Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan. Volume 1 introduces...
Red Shadows - Robert E. Howard
Red Shadows - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Red Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard's puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, enters the jungles of Africa, and even faces dark Gods and evil magic -- all to avenge a woman he'd never met...
War and Peace, Book 08: 1811-1812 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 08: 1811-1812 - 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...
Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs - Cardinal Nicholas Patrick WISEMAN
Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs - Cardinal Nicholas Patrick WISEMAN
- Author: Cardinal Nicholas Patrick WISEMAN
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian. The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from a noble Roman family. Fabiola seems...
Edward II - Christopher Marlowe
Edward II - Christopher Marlowe
- Author: Christopher Marlowe
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Tragedy
Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy focuses on the downfall of King Edward II, whose love for his favorite courtier, Piers Gaveston, leads to rebellion. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast Gaveston: Chuck Williamson King Edward II: Martin Geeson...
The Queen's Necklace - Alexandre Dumas
The Queen's Necklace - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, "The Diamond Necklace Affair". The Diamond Necklace Affair contributed to the discrediting of the Marie Antoinette...
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1 - Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1 - Lew Wallace
- Author: Lew Wallace
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ "Book 1" gives a sideline view of events taking pace around the days of Christ. Book 1 gives the account of Christ's birth. (Summary by MHAIJH85)...
Tempest and Sunshine - Mary Jane HOLMES
Tempest and Sunshine - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Tempest and Sunshine is the first book written by Mary Jane Holmes. Set in the pre-Civil War south, it follows the struggles and romances of two sisters, as different as night and day; blonde Fanny and dark haired Julia. (Introduction by jedopi)...
The World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Poetry / Essays & Short Works
This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s 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...
On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War - G. A. Henty
On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal--in proportion to the number of those engaged--as our first expedition to Burma. It was undertaken without any due comprehension of...
Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World - Castello Newton HOLFORD
Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World - Castello Newton HOLFORD
- Author: Castello Newton HOLFORD
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction
Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed if one man with the vision, altruism and determination to build a state for the benefit of all its people had...
The Dust Flower - Basil KING
The Dust Flower - Basil KING
- Author: Basil KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instead the first person he meets. The book follows the result of this absurd promise, with consequences that neither of...
Shakspere: Personal Recollections - John A. JOYCE
Shakspere: Personal Recollections - John A. JOYCE
- Author: John A. JOYCE
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life, adventures, speeches, and impromptu bursts of poetry. (Summary by Tricia G.)...
The Metropolis - Upton Sinclair
The Metropolis - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: Historical Fiction
In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City’s high society, the author of The Jungle, presents a portrait of the wealthy elite.Allan Montague, a lawyer of thirty, moves to New York City from Mississippi, along with his mother and...
The Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2) - James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2) - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of from 500 to 1,500 unarmed Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort...
An Outback Marriage - Andrew Barton Paterson
An Outback Marriage - Andrew Barton Paterson
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A ROLLICKING YARN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGENDBanjo Paterson is our best known and most loved bush poet. Less well known, but no less captivating, are his warm and funny novels about Australian life. An Outback Marriage tells of a young Englishman on a...
With Fire and Sword - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
With Fire and Sword - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Author: Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Genre: Historical Fiction
In 1647, Poland is a land facing complete destruction with fire and sword. It may come from without, as the Tartar hordes swarm over the steppes, turning cities to ash and the Poles to slaves. It may come from within the country’s bounds, as the...
Men of Iron - Howard Pyle
Men of Iron - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is eight years old when news comes they must flee their home. His blind father is accused of treason. We see...
Three Soldiers - John Dos PASSOS
Three Soldiers - John Dos PASSOS
- Author: John Dos PASSOS
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken, then practicing primarily as an...
Chicot the Jester - Alexandre Dumas
Chicot the Jester - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Romance
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry III. The reign of King Henry III was plagued with rebellion and political intrigue due to the War of the...
Notwithstanding - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
Notwithstanding - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Author: Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a kind woman who looks after her until she can go to live with her maiden aunts in a village in the English...
Elsie's New Relations - Martha Finley
Elsie's New Relations - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Family / Historical
In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative turns from Elsie to Violet's family, particularly her step-children Max and Lulu as they adjust to life in...
The Lion's Skin - Rafael Sabatini
The Lion's Skin - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Justin Caryll was an unwilling hero: an unwilling plotter of revenge, an unwilling spy and an unwilling pursuer of the woman he loves. Justin must thread a perilous path through various sticky wickets, between the machinations of his foster father,...
The Marrow of Tradition - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation,...
Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Historical Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices of transplanted eastern European Jews against the forces of assimilation. Zangwill's knowledge of Yiddishkeit...
Windsor Castle, Book 3 - William Harrison Ainsworth
Windsor Castle, Book 3 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
Book 3 - The History of the Castle. 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...
Through Russian Snows - G. A. Henty
Through Russian Snows - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a degree as that of Napoleon against...
The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction / War & Military
This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s 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...
The Midnight Queen - May Agnes FLEMING
The Midnight Queen - May Agnes FLEMING
- Author: May Agnes FLEMING
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumously.The Midnight Queen is set in London, in the year of the plague 1665. Sir Norman Kingsley visits the...
Saint George for England - G. A. Henty
Saint George for England - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
A tale written for children in 1885.It tells of a child of noble birth whose parents have fallen foul of the current royalty. He is placed in hiding and grows up with a bowyer and then apprenticed to an armourer just outside the gates of the City of...
Love and a Bottle - George Farquhar
Love and a Bottle - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Plays
This play was produced in 1698 at Drury Lane Theatre. From the bustle of its plot, the variety of its incidents, and the sustained humour of its dialogue, it met with so favourable a reception that Farquhar henceforth devoted himself to writing for...
