Historical Novels

For the Term of His Natural Life

Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

This work is a sprawling historical‑fiction saga that sets out to portray the grim reality of penal…

The Wolfe of Badenoch: A Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century

Sir Thomas Dick Lauder

Thomas Dick Lauder’s “The Wolfe of Badenoch” is a historical romance set in the late‑fourteenth‑century…

The Monastery

Walter Scott

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

I. Beówulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment.

This volume presents the Old English epic Beowulf together with the fragmentary “Fight at Finnsburh,” both…

Lancelot of the Laik: A Scottish Metrical Romance (About 1490-1500 A. D.)

Lancelot of the Laik is a Scottish metrical romance composed around the turn of the sixteenth century,…

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…

Henri VI (2/3)

William Shakespeare

Cette pièce de Shakespeare, tirée de la trilogie sur le roi Henri VI, s’ouvre sur une scène de cour où le…

Buffalo Bill's Boy Bugler; Or, The Last of the Indian Ring

Prentiss Ingraham

This work is a classic dime‑novel adventure built around the larger-than‑life figure of Buffalo Bill, written…

Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood opens in the fever‑driven streets of Bridgewater, where a ragged crowd of…

Der Zauberkaftan

Kálmán Mikszáth

Der Roman „Der Zauberkaftan“ von Kálmán Mikszáth ist ein historischer Schwank, der das turbulente Leben in…

金雲翹傳

Qingxincairen

The Hidden Children

Robert W. Chambers

The Hidden Children is a historical romance set in colonial New York, weaving fact and fiction across the…

The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim

Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

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…

Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2

Charles Lever

The work is a sprawling, first‑person narrative set amid the Irish garrison towns of the Peninsular War era,…

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…

楊家將演義

Xiong, Damu, active 16th century

The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers offers a richly detailed portrait of early New York frontier life,…

Taras Bulba, and Other Tales

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The volume gathers Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol’s short stories, the most famous of which is the eponymous…

Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini’s Scaramouche is a sweeping historical romance that plunges the reader into the ferment of…

The Deerslayer

James Fenimore Cooper

The Deerslayer is a historical‑fiction tale set amid the French and Indian War era of the 1740s, weaving…

Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer — Complete

Walter Scott

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

The Young Ranchers; Or, Fighting the Sioux

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The Young Ranchers; Or, Fighting the Sioux is a juvenile adventure set in the open plains of South Dakota…

Le tre valli della Sicilia

Gaetano Sangiorgio

Il romanzo di Gaetano Sangiorgio è un racconto di finzione ambientato nelle valli siciliane, dove la trama si…