Category Archives: Historical Fiction
The Traitor
Author(s): Thomas Dixon, Jr. Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French...
The Side of the Angels
Author(s): Basil King The book is set in New England in the early 20th century...
The Thread of Flame
Author(s): Basil King Edward wakes up on board a ship crossing the Atlantic, on his...
The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec
Author(s): Kirk Munroe This historical romance is a telling of the fall of the Aztec...
The Underdogs
Author(s): Mariano Azuela A historical, revolutionary novel from a first-person narration of the Mexican Revolution...
The Stone Chest
Author(s): G. A. Henty When the ship, Bluebell, went down, Captain Cromwell and Ruel Gross...
The Sin of Monsieur Antoine, Volume 1
Author(s): George Sand This two volume book is a novelized social commentary of this famous...
The Young Carthaginian
Author(s): G. A. Henty Typically, Henty’s heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and...
The Spoilers
Author(s): Rex Beach Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and...
The Story of Ab
Author(s): Stanley Waterloo This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of...
The Tavern Knight
Author(s): Rafael Sabatini Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern...
The Village in the Jungle
Author(s): Leonard Woolf Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent...
To Have And To Hold
Author(s): Mary Johnston When I first started reading this book, I thought it to be...
Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War
Author(s): Kirk Munroe The principal incidents in the story of Coacoochee, as related in the...
The Spanish Brothers
Author(s): Deborah Alcock The daughter of a minister, Deborah Alcock wrote novels on a Christian...
The White Peacock
Author(s): D. H. Lawrence Lawrence’s first novel is set in Nethermere (his name for the...
The Scouts of Stonewall
Author(s): Joseph A. Altsheler In this third book of Joseph Altsheler’s Civil War series, Harry...
The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century
Author(s): G. A. Henty “Of all the chapters of history, there are few more interesting...
The Possessed
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and...
The Inner Shrine
Author(s): Basil King At the opening of this story Diane Eveleth returns from a party...
The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter
Author(s): Ambrose BierceAdolph de Castro A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in...
The Lancashire Witches
Author(s): William Harrison Ainsworth The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities...
The Prairie – A Tale
Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly...
The Last Rebel
Imagine hiking deep into the dense, isolated peaks of the Kentucky wilderness only to be...
The Queen’s Cup
Author(s): G. A. Henty Follow Frank Mallet, Henty’s gentleman hero, as he aids in putting...
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
Author(s): Frances Milton Trollope The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a...
The Rover (Version 2)
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Possessed “of a passion weary of itself”, elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven...
The Queen’s Necklace
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas The Queen’s Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in...
The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2)
Author(s): Emerson Hough In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World’s Greatest Exploration and...
The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Author(s): Émile Zola Book Two of Zola’s 20-volume Rougon-Macquart Cycle. “The Rush for the Spoil”...