Historical fiction books

Los miserables - Tomo 2 (de 2)

Victor Hugo

Este segundo tomo continúa la épica narrativa de Victor Hugo, centrada en la Francia del siglo XIX y sus…

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…

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…

Ivanhoe: A Romance

Walter Scott

The work is a historical romance that moves from a self‑referential preface into a vivid recreation of…

Boston: A Novel

Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair’s Boston is a contemporary historical novel that intertwines the real‑life Sacco‑Vanzetti…

The woman of Andros

Thornton Wilder

The novel opens with a sweeping, lyrical description of the Mediterranean at night, moving from the red glow…

Bushy: A Romance Founded on Fact

Cynthia May Westover Alden

Bushy is a historical romance set against the harsh yet vivid backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in the…

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel opens amid the fevered chaos of Revolutionary Paris, where the guillotine’s blade has…

The Privateer's-Man, One hundred Years Ago

Frederick Marryat

Frederick Marryat’s The Privateer’s‑Man, One Hundred Years Ago is a swash‑swash historical adventure that…

Rebel Spurs

Andre Norton

Rebel Spurs is a historical western that follows Drew Rennie, a freshly discharged Confederate scout, as he…

Cesar Cascabel, Deel 2 Over het IJs en door de Steppe

Jules Verne

Dit tweede deel van Cesar Cascabel is een avontuurlijke reisroman die zich afspeelt op de bevroren wateren…

Notre-Dame de Paris - Tome 1

Victor Hugo

Ce premier tome s’inscrit dans la lignée des romans historiques de Victor Hugo, mêlant la description…

Cesar Cascabel: "De Schoone Zwerfster"

Jules Verne

Dit is een levendig historisch avontuur dat zich afspeelt in het Californië van 1867, een periode waarin de…

Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since

Walter Scott

The work is Walter Scott’s Waverley, a historical novel set amid the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745‑46, and it…

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The novel is a historical romance that weaves together the domestic concerns of a New‑England family with a…

De Vurige Oven: Een verhaal uit den tijd der dragonades in Nederland

J. A. Wormser

Dit is een historische fictieverhaal dat zich afspeelt in het Nederland van 1836, waarin de alledaagse…

A Journal of the Plague Year Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year is Daniel De Foe’s quasi‑historical account of the 1665 epidemic that swept…

Between two thieves

Richard Dehan

The novel is a sprawling historical romance set against the backdrop of the Crimean War and the later…

Noli me tángere Novela Tagala, Edición completa con notas de R. Sempau

José Rizal

Esta obra es una novela histórica que narra la vida del médico y escritor filipino José Rizal, destacando su…

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

The work is a historical fiction set in early‑nineteenth‑century Yorkshire, where the lives of three young…

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

The work is the concluding segment of Alexandre Dumas’s sprawling D’Artagnan Romances, a historical‑fiction…

Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative that places its opening deep in the desert landscape of the Near…

The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s “The Man Who Laughs” is a sprawling historical romance that places its eccentric protagonist,…