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
Scaramouche
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …
War and Peace
I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accur…
Rilla of Ingleside
Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert …
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel d…
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just…
Men of Iron
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is…
The Hand of Ethelberta
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …
A Laodicean
The Laodicean (someone whose religious beliefs are “lukewarm”) of the title is Paula Power who bought the ancient castle De Stancy which she…
The Man Who Fell Through the Earth
A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of …
Castle Richmond
Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840’s, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fi…
The Efficiency Expert
Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despit…
The Golden Calf
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…
Uncle Bernac
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…
The Young Carthaginian
Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagi…
Jo's Boys
Jo’s little men and women are grown up and entering new stages of life. Along with discovering their individual niches, there are lots of le…
The Leavenworth Case
The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a fema…
The Lady of the Basement Flat
A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi M…
Jude the Obscure
Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, dec…
Household Puzzles
Household Puzzles peeks into the life of the Randolph family, four daughters and one son. They are financially strapped but must follow soci…