Historical Fiction

Adam Bede

George Eliot

George Eliot’s opening places the reader in a bustling rural workshop on a summer day in 1799, introducing a…

Rob Roy — Complete

Walter Scott

The work is a sprawling historical novel that frames the legend of Rob Roy within the turbulent world of…

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis is a historical‑fiction novel that places the clash of early Christianity…

The Monastery

Walter Scott

The Monastery is a work of historical fiction that sets its drama amid the turbulent years of the Scottish…

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The Vicomte de Bragelonne is the third installment of Alexandre Dumas’s D’Artagnan Romances, a sprawling…

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1

Mark Twain

The work is a biographical‑fiction narrated by the Sieur Louis de Conte, a self‑styled page and confidant of…

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

The opening places the reader amid the ringing of the great bell of Beaulieu, a sound that summons monks from…

Barry Lyndon

William Makepeace Thackeray

Barry Lyndon is a satirical romance that first appeared as a serial in Fraser’s Magazine in 1844, presented…

Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The work is a sprawling political novel that sets its stage in the glittering world of the 1837 Derby, using…

Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer — Complete

Walter Scott

Guy Mannering is a sprawling historical romance that weaves together inheritance, disinheritance, and the…

The Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The novel is a historical romance set against the glittering backdrop of Pompeii in the reign of the early…

Salammbo

Gustave Flaubert

The novel opens with a sprawling banquet set in a Carthaginian garden, where a motley crowd of mercenaries,…

The Antiquary — Complete

Walter Scott

The black tulip

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Old Mortality, Complete

Walter Scott

Kenilworth

Walter Scott

Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth

Charles Kingsley

The Bride of Lammermoor

Walter Scott

A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.

William Stearns Davis

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete

Walter Scott

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Spy

James Fenimore Cooper

The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest

William Harrison Ainsworth

The Abbot

Walter Scott