Historical Novels

Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel

L. Mühlbach

This work is a historical novel that dramatizes the inner life of Frederick II, King of Prussia, and his…

The Trail of Black Hawk

Paul G. Tomlinson

The Trail of Black Hawk is a biographical war story aimed at younger readers, weaving factual episodes from…

In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685

Evelyn Everett-Green

The work is a biographical‑fiction narrative that frames the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion through the eyes of an…

Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus

Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Der Roman „Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus“ von Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen ist ein Kulturroman…

Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel

Charles Lever

The novel, written by Charles Lever and first serialized in the Dublin University Magazine, is presented here…

The Viking Blood: A Story of Seafaring

Frederick William Wallace

The Viking Blood is a nineteenth‑century fictional narrative that opens amid the bustling docks of the Cape…

El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

The novel is a swash‑buckling historical adventure set against the fevered backdrop of the French Revolution.

Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire

William Harrison Ainsworth

Old Saint Paul’s is a historical novel that intertwines the twin catastrophes of the 1665 plague and the 1666…

Love and liberty: A thrilling narrative of the French Revolution of 1792

Alexandre Dumas

歸蓮夢

active 18th century Su'anzhuren

The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story

Clara Reeve

The Old English Baron is a Gothic‑tinged historical romance set against the turbulence of Henry VI’s…

The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere

Charles de Coster

The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere is a…

The Four Feathers

A. E. W. Mason

The Four Feathers is a war‑and‑love story set among a circle of retired officers who gather each year to…

The Coming Conquest of England

August Niemann

The work is a speculative war narrative that imagines a future clash between the great powers of Europe and…

The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 1 (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere

Charles de Coster

The work is a sprawling seventeenth‑century Dutch adventure saga that follows the mischievous folk‑hero…

Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale

R. D. Blackmore

The novel opens in the bleak, windswept moors of Yorkshire, where a treacherous crossing of the River Tees,…

The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy

Friedrich Schiller

The work is Friedrich Schiller’s dramatic tragedy “The Maid of Orleans,” a stage‑play that opens in a…

Like Another Helen

Sydney C. Grier

The novel is an epistolary work that opens with a young woman, Sylvia, composing a farewell letter to her…

The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages

Charles Reade

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

Torrent of Portyngale

Torrent of Portyngale is a medieval English romance that survives in a single fifteenth‑century manuscript…

The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 2 (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere

Charles de Coster

The work is a sprawling adventure tale that follows the mischievous folk‑hero Ulenspiegel and his stout…

The Kellys and the O'Kellys

Anthony Trollope

The novel is a domestic drama set against the fevered backdrop of Dublin in 1844, when the state trials of…

In the Days of Poor Richard

Irving Bacheller

In Irving Bacheller’s In the Days of Poor Richard the narrative opens with a vivid recollection of a…

Mary Stuart Celebrated Crimes

Alexandre Dumas

The work is a sweeping historical portrait that treats the tragic fate of the Stuart dynasty as a series of…