Historical Novels

Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Edward Bulwer‑Lytton’s Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes is a historical romance that blends…

Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field in Six Cantos

Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott’s Marmion is a narrative poem that treats the historic Battle of Flodden, a 1513 clash…

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The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis

Thomas Dixon, Jr.

The Victim is a sprawling work of historical romance that places a young, nameless boy, later identified as…

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses” is a historical adventure set amid the…

The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana

Daniel Defoe

The work is a sprawling historical‑fiction narrative that blends picaresque adventure with a…

Fabiola; Or, The Church of the Catacombs

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman’s Fabiola offers a blend of historical fiction and early‑church narrative, set…

The Cloister and the Hearth

Charles Reade

The Cloister and the Hearth is a historical‑fiction romance set in the mid‑fifteenth‑century Netherlands, a…

The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852

Leo Tolstoy

The work is a Russian historical novel set in the mid‑nineteenth century, intertwining the social world of…

Montezuma's Daughter

H. Rider Haggard

Montezuma’s Daughter is a historical romance that places its narrator, Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman who…

The Gadfly

E. L. Voynich

The opening places the reader in a sweltering June evening at the theological seminary in Pisa, where the…

The Last of the Barons — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a historical novel that sets out to dramatise the turbulent years of the Wars of the Roses,…

Ashcliffe Hall: A tale of the last century

Emily Sarah Holt

The novel opens in a richly described 18th‑century English country house, introducing two sisters, Lucy,…

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

The work opens in a cramped frontier cabin, its walls scented with corn‑pone, bacon and the musk of pelts.

The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution

Mariano Azuela

Mariano Azuela’s The Underdogs is a revolutionary novel rooted in the very conflict it depicts.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2

Mark Twain

The work is a biographical‑fiction rendering of Joan of Arc’s later campaigns, presented as the dictated…

The True History of Tom & Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish!

Hindley, Charles; Egan, Pierce; Moncrieff, W. T.

The work is a sprawling, eighteenth‑century‑style compendium that mixes humorous verse, street‑level…

Peveril of the Peak

Walter Scott

The work is a historical romance set against the backdrop of 17th‑century England, tracing the fortunes of…

An Egyptian Princess — Complete

Georg Ebers

Georg Ebers’s An Egyptian Princess is a historical romance that weaves together the cultures of ancient…

Chicot the Jester

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a historical swash‑buckling drama set in the turbulent court of Henry III, France, in 1578.

Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century

Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s Redgauntlet is a work of historical fiction that immerses the reader in the Jacobite fervour…

Men of Iron

Howard Pyle

The novel opens in the tumultuous year 1400, when England is still trembling from the overthrow of Richard II…

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

Jack Sheppard: A Romance

William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth’s “Jack Sheppard: A Romance” is a historical melodrama set in early‑18th‑century…