Historical Novels

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The novel opens in a bustling Parisian garden where lovers, journalists and strangers converge under the…

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

The work is a sprawling historical novel set against the backdrop of early‑18th‑century Britain and its…

The Story of Grettir the Strong

The Story of Grettir the Strong is an Icelandic saga translated into English, presenting the life of the…

木蘭奇女傳

Anonymous

The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance

Richard Savage

The work is a sprawling historical romance set in Mexican‑ruled California in July 1840.

The Spy

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy is a historical‑fiction adventure set amid the “Neutral Ground” of…

The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest

William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth’s The Lancashire Witches is a historical romance that plunges the reader into the…

The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish

James Fenimore Cooper

The work is a historical fiction set during King Philip’s War of 1675‑1676, a conflict that pitted…

平山冷燕

Tianhuazangzhuren

The Abbot

Walter Scott

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative that places the author’s reflective voice at the very start of a…

The Camp of Refuge: A Tale of the Conquest of the Isle of Ely

Charles MacFarlane

The Talisman

Walter Scott

The work is a historical romance set amid the Third Crusade, using the well‑known figures of Richard I and…

Shaman

Robert Shea

Robert Shea’s Shaman is a work of historical fiction that places a young Sauk warrior, Gray Cloud, at the…

A Sicilian Romance

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The novel unfolds as a Gothic romance rooted in the ruined castle of the Mazzini family on Sicily’s northern…

Pasquale Paoli; ossia, la rotta di Ponte Nuovo

Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

Il romanzo di Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi è una narrazione storica ambientata nella prima metà del XVIII…

Robin Hood

J. Walker McSpadden

This work is a sprawling historical romance that re‑imagines the Robin Hood legend through the eyes of Robert…

合錦回文傳

Yu Li

Trekkerswee Met tekeninge van J.H. Pierneef

Totius

The work is an Afrikaans verse narrative that traces the fortunes of a farming family on the Rand from the…

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a collection of short, humorous tales that Balzac published in 1832 under the title Contes…

The Companions of Jehu

Alexandre Dumas

The work is a historical adventure set amid the turbulence of the French Revolution, specifically between…

Richard Carvel — Complete

Winston Churchill

The work is a sprawling historical romance that blends family memoir with the sweep of the American…

Fuente Ovejuna

Lope de Vega

Esta obra es una comedia del siglo XVII escrita por Lope de Vega, incluida en la categoría de drama español…

Akbar: An Eastern Romance

P. A. S. van Limburg Brouwer

Akbar: An Eastern Romance is a nineteenth‑century Dutch work rendered into English by the orientalist Dr P.

Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. Final Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia. from the Mss. of Colonel Surry, of Eagle's Nest.

John Esten Cooke

John Esten Cooke’s Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins is a Civil‑War memoir that blends…