Historical Novels

Ten Years Later

Alexandre Dumas

The work titled Ten Years Later is the middle portion of Alexandre Dumas’s third D’Artagnan romance, The…

Louise de la Vallière

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Louise de la Vallière is the third installment of Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet’s sprawling D’Artagnan…

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…

玉蟾記

Tongyuanzi

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 Antiquary is Walter Scott’s third and final entry in a self‑described series of Scottish sketches, each…

The Crisis — Complete

Winston Churchill

The work is a sprawling, first‑person narrative set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, presented…

Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean

Victor Hugo

Ce volume poursuit l’épopée historique de Victor Hugo, ancrée dans le tumulte de la Révolution de 1848.

Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.'

José Rizal

This work is an abridged English rendering of José Rizal’s Tagalog novel Noli Me Tangere, produced in 1900 by…

Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus

Richard Short

Richard Short’s Saronia: A Romance of Ancient Ephesus opens with a sweeping, lyrical tableau of the bustling…

Ninety-Three

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s Ninety‑Three opens amid the bleak spring of 1793, when a Parisian battalion, thinned to a few…

Il Conte di Monte-Cristo

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Il Conte di Monte‑Cristò è un romanzo storico che intreccia avventura, vendetta e intrighi marittimi nella…

Henri VIII

William Shakespeare

Cette pièce, signée William Shakespeare, se classe parmi les drames historiques qui mettent en scène le roi…

合浦珠

active 17th century-18th century Yuanhuyanshuisanren

The Squatter and the Don A Novel Descriptive of Contemporary Occurrences in California

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

The novel presents a domestic drama set against the backdrop of California’s land‑settlement era,…

Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges

William Makepeace Thackeray

The work is a sprawling, self‑referential meditation on William Makepeace Thackeray’s own historical novel…

The black tulip

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a sprawling historical novel that intertwines the political turbulence of the Dutch Republic with…

The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner

Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

The work is a sprawling biographical romance that places the life of Leonardo da Vinci within a richly…

Mary Stuart: A Tragedy

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller’s “Mary Stuart” is a historical tragedy that dramatizes the final months of the Scottish…

Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s fourth‑fifth volume, subtitled “The Idyll and the Epic,” is a sweeping historical work that…

夢中緣

Li, Xiuxing, jin shi 1715

Old Mortality, Complete

Walter Scott

Old Mortality is Walter Scott’s sprawling historical romance set against the turbulent Scottish conflicts of…

Billy Budd: And Other Prose Pieces

Herman Melville

The volume gathers Herman Melville’s final prose efforts, beginning with the unfinished novel Billy Budd,…

Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table, Adapted from the Book of Romance

This volume is a nineteenth‑century adaptation of the medieval Arthurian romances, drawing chiefly on Sir…