Historical Fiction Books

The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest

William Harrison Ainsworth

The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire ar..

By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico

G. A. Henty

In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civilization of tens of thousands. This is the story of an Englishm..

A Girl of the Commune

G. A. Henty

A Girl of the Commune is historical fiction written by George Alfred Henty, a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular i..

I Will Repay

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

I Will Repay is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band an..

Carmen

Prosper Mérimée

On a trip to Spain in 1830, our narrator recounts his encounters with two strange characters: a thief named Don José Navarro and a beautiful Romani woman named Carmen...little does he know that soon, ..

Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is romance novel written by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Ridd is the s..

La grande ombre

Arthur Conan Doyle

La grande ombre is the French version of The Great Shaowd, a historical fiction work written by Arthur Conan Doyle...

Joan of Naples

Alexandre Dumas

The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regional warfare (like the 1345 War in the Piedmont), and ultima..