Category Archives: Historical Fiction
The Prince and the Pauper (Version 4 – Dramatic Reading)
Author(s): Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of two young boys...
The Lion’s Brood
Author(s): Duffield Osborne “Centuries come and go; but the plot of the drama is unchanged,...
The Pioneers
Author(s): Katharine S. Prichard The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in...
The Point of Honor
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers,...
The Lark (Version 2)
Author(s): E. Nesbit “The Lark” has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss...
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Author(s): Baroness Emma Orczy The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego,...
The Outlaw of Torn
Author(s): Edgar Rice Burroughs The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the...
The Pharaoh and the Priest
Author(s): Bolesław Prus The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last...
The Marriage of William Ashe
Author(s): Mary Augusta Ward William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a...
The Master of Ballantrae
Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century,...
The Mountebank
Author(s): William John Locke Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in...
The Lion’s Skin
Author(s): Rafael Sabatini Justin Caryll was an unwilling hero: an unwilling plotter of revenge, an...
The Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Author(s): Baroness Emma Orczy The enigmatic smile of The Laughing Cavalier of Franz Hals’ famous...
The Metropolis
Author(s): Upton Sinclair In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City’s...
The Perfect Tribute
Author(s): Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Part 1 of this brief historical fiction is a recounting...
The Rough Road
Author(s): William John Locke The book tells the story of “Doggie” Trevor, who, having been...
The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle From the Preface: I HAVE written “Impressions and Tales” upon...
The Marrow of Tradition
Author(s): Charles Waddell Chesnutt In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt–using the 1898 Wilmington,...
The Leopard’s Spots
Author(s): Thomas Dixon, Jr. The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era – The...
The Ladies’ Paradise
Author(s): Émile Zola Zola’s original French publication, Au Bonheur des Dames (“The Ladies’ Delight”), published...
The Last of the Mohicans – A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)
Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper This story is set in the British province of New York...
The Jungle Girl
Author(s): Gordon Casserly Mrs Norton is the wife of the Political Officer and confident of...
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Author(s): Howard Pyle Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and...
The Pathfinder – The Inland Sea
Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye,...
The Last Three Soldiers
Author(s): William Henry Shelton What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s...
The Freelands
Author(s): John Galsworthy The Freelands family is a mixture: Tod Freeland is an uncommunicative gentle...
The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Author(s): Thomas Dixon, Jr. The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era –...
The Garies and their Friends
Author(s): Frank Webb The book which now appears before the public may be of interest...
The Head of the House of Coombe
Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett While renowned for her beloved children’s literature, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s talent...
The Cliff-Dwellers
Author(s): Henry Blake Fuller Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present...