Category Archives: Historical Fiction
The Scarlet Letter
Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A...
The Pirate
Author(s): Sir Walter Scott The Pirate is set in the island of Shetland in the...
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
Long before Edgar Rice Burroughs achieved immortal fame through his iconic pulp heroes, he turned...
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
Transformation across social strata often demands a painful reconciliation with one’s origins, particularly when wartime...
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
Few legendary figures have captured the literary imagination quite like the green-clad outlaw of Sherwood...
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...