Historical Fiction Books
The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Great Shadow, also known as The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.W. Arrowsmith’s Bristol Libra..
The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains
Nathaniel HawthorneTHE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional ..
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
James Fenimore CooperJack Tier or The Florida Reef is a historical fiction novel written by James Fenimore Cooper, the author Of “The Pilot,” “Red Rover,” “Two Admirals,” “Wing And Wing,” “Miles Wallingford,” Etc.This wor..
In Freedom's Cause - A Story of Wallace and Bruce
G. A. HentyThere are few figures in history who have individually exercised so great an influence upon events as William Wallace and Robert Bruce. It was to the extraordinary personal courage, indomitable persev..
Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
Charlotte M. YongeIf circumstances regarding the Queen's captivity and Babington's plot have been found to be omitted, as well as many interesting personages in the suite of the captive Queen, it must be remembered tha..
Eric Brighteyes
H. Rider HaggardThe Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nic..
The Thrall of Leif the Lucky - A Story of Viking Days
Ottilie A. LiljencrantzTHE Anglo-Saxon race was in its boyhood in the days when the Vikings lived. Youth's fresh fires burned in men's blood; the unchastened turbulence of youth prompted their crimes, and their good deeds w..
Sylvia's Lovers
Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellThe novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in ..