Historical Fiction
Cup of Gold
Steinbeck's first novel, a historical fiction account of Henry (Captain) Morgan. The title comes from his sacking of Panama City which was …
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance
A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradu…
Bailén
Rescatado de entre un montón de muertos y una vez recuperado de sus graves heridas, con las alas y el instinto que proporciona el amo…
Majesteit
Eerste van de drie koningsromans van Louis Couperus. Het is een van de populairste romans van Louis Couperus, getuige het aantal herdrukken …
Peveril of the Peak
Peveril is one of Scott's Waverley novels series. It is a historical novel set in 1678 in England, and tells a story of the Popish Plot. P…
Agincourt
The Battle of Agincourt provided a surprise English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place in 1415 and brought a turning point in …
Arabella Stuart
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…
The Island Pharisees
Richard Shelton is wrestling with his conscience. As a member of the upper class at a time when the British Empire is at its height, he sees…
The Heidenmauer
This is a story that is set in 16th century Germany. Characters representing the various classes of the remnants of feudalism and the rising…
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur
"Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are those that have gathered about the names of national heroes. The &A…
The Freelands
The Freelands family is a mixture: Tod Freeland is an uncommunicative gentle giant, his wife Kirsteen passionate and free-spoken, Felix is a…
At Aboukir and Acre
This is a tale of the French expedition into Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte, aimed to establish a French colony in Egypt and to threaten En…
De Pleegzoon
Gedurende het twaalfjarig bestand van de 80 jarige oorlog woedt er in de Nederlanden een godsdienstoorlog tussen de Remonstranten en de Cont…
The Village in the Jungle
Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twen…
Virgin Soil
The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …
Historia de un Pepe
Novela histórico-narrativa de mediados del siglo XIX, donde un recién nacido es abandonado a la puerta de una casa. Luego de s…