Historical Fiction
- Classic Western Adventures
- Epic Tales of War and Honor
- Historical True Crime Chronicles
- Journeys Through Time and Place
- Romantic Journeys Through History
- Voices of the Past
- Gothic Tales of History
- Fictional Lives Through History
The Idiot
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…
The Stowmarket Mystery
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady is a profound exploration of virtue and the struggles of a young woman in 18th-century Engl…
Three Soldiers
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…
The Midnight Queen
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumou…
Father Goriot
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …
Ten Years Later
In Ten Years Later, the saga of the legendary Musketeers continues as Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan navigate the complexities of lo…
The Hill of Dreams
The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The…
Rob Roy
Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the…
North and South
North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, …
Northanger Abbey
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…
Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…
Agatha Webb
A universally beloved woman has been murdered. But who would have the heart to kill Agatha Webb? Would her husband do it for money matters? …
The Betrothed
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…
Nibelungenlied
The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfri…
A Tale of Two Cities
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone
Kissyman and The Gentleman
New York City, 1946. No one knows his real name, but when the job is too dirty, too dangerous, you call Kissyman. Once he was an elite Nazi …
The Witch of Salem
A historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials. A fantastic illustrated historical novel by the prolific American author John R. Musick.Fro…
The Mabinogion
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flo…
Beowulf
Beowulf is a monumental epic poem that captures the heroic deeds of its titular character, a warrior of great strength and valor. Set in the…