Historical Fiction Books

The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The story of Perkin Warbeck was first suggested to me as a subject for historical detail. On studying it, I became aware of the romance which his story contains, while, at the same time, I felt that i..

The Wolfe of Badenoch

Thomas Dick-Lauder

In the “Wolfe of Badenoch,” the author has adhered strictly to historical fact, as far as history or historical character has been interwoven with his story. He has felt, indeed, that this scrupulosit..

The Young Continentals at Trenton

John T. McIntyre

The Young Continentals series deals with the experiences of four boys in the American Revolution. One of them, Nat Brewster, is from the hills about Wyoming, Ben Cooper is from Philadelphia, while the..

The Pilgrims' First Christmas

Josephine Pittman Scribner

Mary and John walked down the dim aisles of the forest. They found many pure little brooks and drank the fresh water with delight. They built a fire to signal to the Mayflower that all was right. Mary..

The Young Continentals at Lexington

John T. McIntyre

“The Young Continentals at Lexington” begins with that vital period of our country’s history when the great forces that made the Revolution were slowly coming together. The second book of the ser..

The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment

When Florian awakened he was lying upon the ground, with the fairy tales of Monsieur Perrault serving for Florian’s pillow, in the gardens of Storisende, just by the little tree raised from the slip w..

The Perilous Seat

Caroline Dale Snedeker

The background and details of this story have been carefully authenticated. The founding of the colony Inessa, however, is not an actual event. It is the union of a number of colony traditions. It is ..

The Young Continentals at Monmouth

John T. McIntyre

This book tells the story of Ben Cooper at Princeton and in the dark period of Brandywine and Valley Forge, and ends with the victory at Monmouth, when Washington overcame not only his open enemies, b..