Historical Fiction

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Middlemarch is a didactic work of fiction that weaves together the ordinary rhythms of English town and…

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…

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

T. Smollett

The work is an epistolary comedy that opens with a series of letters written by a nameless narrator to…

The Adventures of Roderick Random

T. Smollett

The work is a picaresque satire that follows the life of Roderick Random, a North‑British orphan whose…

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is a sea‑story that begins not on a distant island but in the modest…

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…

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

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

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s tale is a sprawling historical fiction set in sixteenth‑century London, where the lives of a…

The three musketeers

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a historical adventure set in early‑17th‑century France, intertwining the political turbulence of…

Les trois mousquetaires

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Catriona

Robert Louis Stevenson

Catriona is a historical adventure set in mid‑18th‑century Scotland, following the return of David Balfour,…

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped thrusts the reader into a fever‑pitch episode of 18th‑century Scottish conflict, blending…

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans is a historical adventure set amid the French and Indian…

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the American Civil War, focusing on a young Virginian…

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a satirical novel that opens amid the bustling, self‑conscious world of Sir Pitt Crawley, a…

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave

Mary Prince

Aurelian; or, Rome in the Third Century

William Ware

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

Charles Dickens

Ivanhoe: A Romance

Walter Scott

Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since

Walter Scott

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace