Category Archives: Historical Fiction
My Ántonia
Author(s): Willa Sibert Cather My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move...
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
The swift collapse of Versailles under the weight of revolutionary fervor remains one of history’s...
Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony
Author(s): James Otis Richard of Jamestown by James Otis was written for children with the...
Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1)
Author(s): John Galsworthy ‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching...
Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century
Author(s): Baroness Emma Orczy This historical novel takes place in Kent in 1657, and focuses...
On the Red Staircase
Author(s): Mary Imlay Taylor ““The Czarevitch Ivan is said to be indifferent to the high...
Post Haste
Author(s): R. M. Ballantyne In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and...
Oldtown Folks
When Harriet Beecher Stowe published her seventh novel in 1869, she turned away from the...
Marguerite de Valois
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX’s reign...
Red Pottage
Author(s): Mary Cholmondeley The book follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel...
Plain Tales from the Hills
Author(s): Rudyard Kipling Named a “prophet of British imperialism” by the young George Orwell, and...
Rob Roy
When Frank Osbaldistone rejects his father’s London mercantile empire to pursue poetry, his defiance ignites...
Old Mortality
Author(s): Sir Walter Scott Old Mortality is part of the Waverley series by Walter Scott....
Regiment of Women
Author(s): Clemence Dane Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is...
Master and Man
Author(s): Leo Tolstoy A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita,...
Mr Wicker’s Window
Author(s): Carley Dawson When Christopher Mason walked into Mr. Wicker’s antique shop, he had no...
Persephone of Eleusis
Author(s): Clare Winger Harris A romance of Ancient Greece featuring the hero’s journey and evil...
Prince and Heretic
Author(s): Marjorie Bowen This novel is centered on the Dutch House of Orange, and begins...
Quentin Durward
Author(s): Sir Walter Scott Quentin Durward is a historical novel set in the mid-1400’s. The...
Missing
Author(s): Mary Augusta Ward It is 1915 and Nelly and Lieutenant George Sarratt have recently...
Rescue Dog of the High Pass
Author(s): Jim Kjelgaard Jim Kjelgaard has long wanted to tell the story of the gallant...
Romola
Author(s): George Eliot George Eliot’s own favorite among her novels, this novel tells the story...
Manchester Man
Author(s): Isabella Varley Banks Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in...
Micah Clarke
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle This book tells the story of Micah Clarke’s adventures. As...
Phineas Redux (Version 2)
Author(s): Anthony Trollope Phineas Finn (hero from an earlier novel in this series) returns to...
Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name
Author(s): Émile Gaboriau Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story: Around 11...
Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch
Author(s): Wilhelm Meinhold Wilhelm Meinhold, a Pomeranian priest working on the Island of Usedom, relates...
Robert Elsmere
Author(s): Mary Augusta Ward Essentially the book covers the life of Robert Elsmere, a boyishly...
Recompence
Author(s): Robert Keable The book is a sequel to ‘Simon called Peter’ by the same...
Privy Seal: His Last Venture
Author(s): Ford Madox Ford This is the second book in Ford’s Fifth Queen trilogy, a...