Historical fiction books

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter presents itself as a richly layered work that weaves together themes of adultery, revenge,…

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis is a historical‑fiction novel that places the clash of early Christianity…

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

The novel is a work of historical fiction that places its story on the wind‑blown prairie of…

Les misérables Tome III: Marius

Victor Hugo

Ce troisième tome, centré sur le personnage de Marius, s’inscrit dans la vaste fresque historique de Victor…

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons is a work of historical fiction that dramatizes the clash between…

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

Ce roman historique, signé Victor Hugo, s’ouvre sur une méditation acerbe à propos des dégradations subies…

For the Term of His Natural Life

Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

This work is a sprawling historical‑fiction saga that sets out to portray the grim reality of penal…

The Wolfe of Badenoch: A Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century

Sir Thomas Dick Lauder

Thomas Dick Lauder’s “The Wolfe of Badenoch” is a historical romance set in the late‑fourteenth‑century…

The Monastery

Walter Scott

The Monastery is a work of historical fiction that sets its drama amid the turbulent years of the Scottish…

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The Vicomte de Bragelonne is the third installment of Alexandre Dumas’s D’Artagnan Romances, a sprawling…

Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood opens in the fever‑driven streets of Bridgewater, where a ragged crowd of…

Rainbow Valley

L. M. Montgomery

Rainbow Valley is a historical juvenile novel set on Prince Edward Island, where the lives of orphans,…

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

The opening places the reader amid the ringing of the great bell of Beaulieu, a sound that summons monks from…

The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers offers a richly detailed portrait of early New York frontier life,…

The Deerslayer

James Fenimore Cooper

The Deerslayer is a historical‑fiction tale set amid the French and Indian War era of the 1740s, weaving…

Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer — Complete

Walter Scott

Guy Mannering is a sprawling historical romance that weaves together inheritance, disinheritance, and the…

Louise de la Vallière

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Louise de la Vallière is the third installment of Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet’s sprawling D’Artagnan…

The Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The novel is a historical romance set against the glittering backdrop of Pompeii in the reign of the early…

Salammbo

Gustave Flaubert

The novel opens with a sprawling banquet set in a Carthaginian garden, where a motley crowd of mercenaries,…

Les Misérables, v. 1/5: Fantine

Victor Hugo

This volume opens the first part of Victor Hugo’s sweeping historical fiction, “Fantine,” by situating the…

Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean

Victor Hugo

Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean

Victor Hugo

Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.'

José Rizal

Il Conte di Monte-Cristo

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste