Historical Novels

The Monctons: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 2)

Susanna Moodie

The Monctons is a multigenerational family saga that opens with a detailed, almost forensic recounting of the…

The Hunters of the Ozark

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The work is a frontier adventure set in the late eighteenth‑century Missouri territory, then part of the vast…

Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume

Charlotte M. Yonge

The work is a nineteenth‑century English romance that retells the ancient Psyche‑Cupid myth in…

The Youth of Jefferson Or, a Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764

John Esten Cooke

The work is a playful, dialogue‑driven vignette set in 1764 Williamsburg, presenting a young, flamboyantly…

At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt

G. A. Henty

The work is a historical adventure aimed at younger readers, set against the backdrop of Napoleon’s Egyptian…

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines; or, Following the Flag against the Moros

H. Irving Hancock

Uncle Sam’s Boys in the Philippines is a juvenile adventure that follows the same two young sergeants, Hal…

Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond

Joseph A. Altsheler

The novel is a Civil‑War‑era romance set against the Confederate capital’s bustling streets.

A Little Traitor to the South A War Time Comedy with a Tragic Interlude

Cyrus Townsend Brady

This work is a Civil‑War novel that mixes a light‑hearted romance with a somber vignette about a Confederate…

Mediaeval Tales

Turpin’s History of Charles the Great and Orlando is a medieval chronicle rendered into English by Thomas…

Ahead of the Army

William O. Stoddard

Ahead of the Army is a juvenile adventure set against the backdrop of the Mexican‑American War, written by…

Plotting in Pirate Seas

Francis Rolt-Wheeler

The novel is a juvenile adventure set against the political intrigue of the West Indies, introducing the…

An Eagle Flight: A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere

José Rizal

An Eagle Flight is a historical‑fiction novel that dramatizes the turbulent final decades of Spanish rule in…

Le rive della Bormida nel 1794

Giuseppe Cesare Abba

Il volume di Giuseppe Cesare Abba è un racconto ambientato nella Valle della Bormida nel 1794, che si apre…

The sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)

Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson’s sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and Harald the Tyrant present a medieval narrative of power,…

儒林外史

Jingzi Wu

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 17

Wilson’s Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 17 is a first‑person narrative set in the Scottish…

Where the Souls of Men are Calling

Credo Fitch Harris

This novel is a World War‑I era work of fiction that opens in the imagined American town of Hillsdale, a…

The Tree-Dwellers

Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

The Tree‑Dwellers is a juvenile educational work that presents the earliest known human societies as a series…

The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago

Arthur Conan Doyle

The volume gathers a series of short adventure and historical tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, and it opens with…

The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2

Henry William Herbert

The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 is a historical novel set amid the turbulent final years of the Roman Republic,…

The First of the English: A Novel

Archibald Clavering Gunter

The novel is a sprawling historical adventure set against the brutal flood‑swept night of early spring 1572,…

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge is Charles Dickens’s historical‑fiction novel that intertwines the turbulent Gordon Riots of…

Adrift in the Wilds; Or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The novel is a brisk, adventure‑filled tale of two teenage cousins, Elwood Brandon and Howard Lawrence, who…

Jane Seton; or, The King's Advocate: A Scottish Historical Romance

James Grant

Grant’s “Jane Seton; or, The King’s Advocate” is a historical romance that intertwines factual Scottish…