Historical Novels

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…

Les crimes de l'amour Précédé d'un avant-propos, suivi des idées sur les romans, de l'auteur des crimes de l'amour à Villeterque, d'une notice bio-bibliographique du marquis de Sade: l'homme et ses écrits et du discours prononcé par le marquis de Sade à la section des piques.

marquis de Sade

Ce volume, signé du Marquis de Sade, s’ouvre sur un long monologue où l’auteur mêle une diatribe contre la…

The Girl Philippa

Robert W. Chambers

The novel is a wartime melodrama set against the looming conflict of World War I, as indicated by its subject…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 20

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume is a Victorian adventure narrative that blends the intrigue of wartime espionage with the everyday…

The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance

The Bakhtyār Nāma is a Persian romance that belongs to the Sindibād cycle of tales, a collection long…

Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1

Ernst Eckstein

Ernst Eckstein’s Quintus Claudius is a historical romance set in the later Flavian era, specifically the year…

Mr. Standfast

John Buchan

The novel opens on a weary British officer returning from the Western Front, his mind a tangle of medals,…

The Long Roll

Mary Johnston

The Long Roll is a sprawling Civil‑War narrative that opens amid a bustling Southern town on the eve of…

The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times

George Alfred Townsend

The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times is a nineteenth‑century melodrama that folds the grim business of…

The rose of old St. Louis

Mary Dillon

The Rose of Old St. Louis is a historical‑fiction romance set amid the bustling social life of early…

The Reign of Greed

José Rizal

The Reign of Greed is a satirical Philippine novel rendered in English translation, opening with a vivid…

Love-at-arms: being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro

Rafael Sabatini

Love‑at‑arms is a historical‑fiction narrative set in early‑sixteenth‑century Italy, drawn from the…

Die häßliche Herzogin: Roman

Lion Feuchtwanger

Der Roman „Die häßliche Herzogin“ von Lion Feuchtwanger ist ein historischer Roman, der im späten 14.

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…

A Victor of Salamis

William Stearns Davis

William Stearns Davis’s A Victor of Salamis is a work of historical fiction that dramatizes the Persian…

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s Notre‑Dame de Paris is a sprawling historical novel that intertwines the fate of a medieval…

Création et rédemption, deuxième partie: La fille du marquis

Alexandre Dumas

Ce roman d’Alexandre Dumas, inscrit sous la rubrique « France – Histoire – Révolution, 1789‑1799 – Fiction »,…

Noli me tangere: Filippijnsche roman

José Rizal

Dit werk is een historische roman die zich afspeelt in de Filipijnen van de negentiende eeuw, een tijd waarin…

Eene Egyptische Koningsdochter Historische Roman van George Ebers

Georg Ebers

Dit werk is een historische roman die zich afspeelt in het Egypte van vóór 332 v.Chr., en de opening schetst…

The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance

Henryk Sienkiewicz

The novel is a sweeping historical romance set against the turbulent politics of late‑medieval Poland, where…

Daughters of Nijo: A Romance of Japan

Onoto Watanna

This work is a historical romance set in Japan during the early years of the Restoration, when the country…

Carl Svenske: Historisk berättelse från frihetstiden

Gustaf Björlin

Denna historiska skildring av Gustaf Björlin placerar läsaren mitt i den politiska maktkampen under…

The Fifth Queen Crowned

Ford Madox Ford

The Fifth Queen Crowned is a historical romance that continues Ford Madox Ford’s three‑part saga of Henry…