Historical fiction books

The Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The opening of this work places the reader squarely in the bustling port of Marseilles in early 1815,…

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The novel is a historical fiction set against the turbulence of the French Revolution and its echo in…

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s *The Scarlet Letter* is a work of historical and psychological fiction that foregrounds…

The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.

Rymer, James Malcolm; Prest, Thomas Peckett

The work is a lurid blend of historical fiction and horror, set in late‑eighteenth‑century London where the…

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

The novel opens in a July evening of 1805, inside the drawing‑room of Anna Pávlovna Schérer, a well‑connected…

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s opening places the reader squarely in the early nineteenth‑century world of post‑revolutionary…

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s tale is a sprawling historical fiction set in sixteenth‑century London, where the lives of a…

The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition

Walter Scott

The work is a sprawling historical romance set amid the storm‑tossed islands of Orkney and Zetland in the…

Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times

G. P. R. James

Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times is a historical adventure set in the shadow of Sherwood Forest during the…

The three musketeers

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a historical adventure set in early‑17th‑century France, intertwining the political turbulence of…

The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty

Alexandre Dumas

The Hero of the People is an historical romance set amid the tumult of the French Revolution, where the drama…

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Ce premier tome du *Comte de Monte‑Cristo* se présente comme une fresque d’aventures et de drames maritimes,…

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

The novel is a historical romance set against the rugged backdrop of Exmoor in the late seventeenth century,…

Les trois mousquetaires

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Ce roman d’aventure historique se situe au cœur de la France du début du XVIIᵉ siècle, sous le règne de Louis…

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped thrusts the reader into a fever‑pitch episode of 18th‑century Scottish conflict, blending…

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The opening places the reader on a damp, fog‑filled train bound for St Petersburg in late November, where…

Noli Me Tangere

José Rizal

Noli Me Tangere is José Rizal’s historical‑fiction set in the Philippines of the late nineteenth century, and…

The rose of old St. Louis

Mary Dillon

The Rose of Old St. Louis is a historical‑fiction romance set amid the bustling social life of early…

Black Beauty: The autobiography of a horse

Anna Sewell

The work is presented as the memoir of a horse, narrated in the first person by a black stallion who recounts…

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans is a historical adventure set amid the French and Indian…

The Zeppelin's Passenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a World‑War‑I era historical novel that opens with a leisurely autumn walk…

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s *Notre‑Dame de Paris* is a sprawling historical novel that intertwines the fate of a medieval…

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the American Civil War, focusing on a young Virginian…

Noli me tangere: Filippijnsche roman

José Rizal

Dit werk is een historische roman die zich afspeelt in de Filipijnen van de negentiende eeuw, een tijd waarin…