Historical Novels

水滸傳

Nai'an Shi

Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days

Anna W. Ford Piper

The novel opens with a stark, almost poetic tableau of a storm‑tossed sea in September 1607, where the wreck…

The House of the Wolfings A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse

William Morris

The work is a sprawling fantasy epic that opens with a detailed chronicle of a people who have settled beside…

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

The work is a historical fiction set in early‑nineteenth‑century Yorkshire, where the lives of three young…

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a historical romance that places the dramatic events surrounding the last Saxon monarch at the…

Petronio Peça livremente extrahida do romance Quo Vadis de Henryk Sienkiewicz

Marcelino Mesquita

Esta obra, extraída livremente do romance Quo Vadis de Henryk Sienkiewicz, apresenta‑se como um drama…

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

The work is the concluding segment of Alexandre Dumas’s sprawling D’Artagnan Romances, a historical‑fiction…

The Mabinogion

The Mabinogion is a collection of medieval Welsh romances that bridges the world of chivalric adventure with…

Barbarians

Robert W. Chambers

Barbarians is a World War I novel that opens amid the cramped decks of a mule transport bound for the Western…

Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative that places its opening deep in the desert landscape of the Near…

Burl

Morrison Heady

The work is a nineteenth‑century Christian adventure set on the Kentucky frontier, framed by a Methodist…

東周列國志

Menglong Feng

Christmas Light

Ethel Calvert Phillips

The work opens with a vivid tableau of a modest village garden, where an orange‑tree shades a wooden bench…

The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s “The Man Who Laughs” is a sprawling historical romance that places its eccentric protagonist,…

Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field

Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field” is a long‑form narrative poem that intertwines the romance…

蕩寇志

Wanchun Yu

Rob Roy — Complete

Walter Scott

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

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is a dramatic tragedy that intertwines the political machinations…

The Riflemen of the Miami

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The Riflemen of the Miami is a frontier adventure that places four hardened hunters, George and Lewis Dernor,…

A Warwickshire Lad: The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare

George Madden Martin

George Madden Martin’s work is a juvenile‑fiction portrait of William Shakespeare’s early years, presented as…

Rilla of Ingleside

L. M. Montgomery

The novel is a juvenile‑fiction portrait of life on Prince Edward Island during the First World War, told…

三俠五義

Shi, Yukun, active 19th century

玉嬌梨

Tianhuazangzhuren

粉妝樓全傳

Guanzhong Luo