Historical Fiction Books

The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales

Arthur Conan Doyle

The 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 Hawthorne

THE 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 Cooper

Jack 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. Henty

There 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. Yonge

If 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 Haggard

The 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. Liljencrantz

THE 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 Gaskell

The 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 ..