A gentle pioneer: Being the story of the early days in the new west

Strange Stories of the Great Valley: The Adventures of a Boy Pioneer

Abbie Johnston Grosvenor

Twenty years after

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a sprawling historical novel set in the turbulent years of Louis XIV’s early reign, where the…

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The novel is a historical fiction set against the turbulence of the French Revolution and its echo in…

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

The novel opens in a July evening of 1805, inside the drawing‑room of Anna Pávlovna Schérer, a well‑connected…

The Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott

The work is an Arthurian romance by Sir Walter Scott, presented as the fifth canto of a larger poem.

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s opening places the reader squarely in the early nineteenth‑century world of post‑revolutionary…