Genre
Historical Fiction.
Step back in time with our handpicked historical fiction, where the drama of the past leaps off the page. From the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities to the antebellum South in The Prophets, these stories capture the resilience of the human spirit. Lose yourself in timeless tales that have shaped our world.
Adventure
Little Women
Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.
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Drama
The Clansman
A historically significant but racist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr., presented with explicit contextual framing in this DotBooks edition.
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Adventure
The Young Alaskans on the Missouri
A boys' outdoor adventure that sends its young companions down the historic Missouri, mixing wilderness craft, river travel and American frontier history for eager young readers.
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Adventure
Desert Conquest
A novel whose title evokes the struggle to master a hard, arid land, a story set against the frontier's contest between people, water, and unforgiving country.
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Fiction
Nicanor - Teller of Tales
A historical romance set in the twilight of Roman Britain, following a gifted teller of tales through love and upheaval as an old order gives way.
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Adventure
An Undivided Union
A rousing juvenile adventure set against the American Civil War, following young soldiers through the trials of the Blue and the Gray.
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Adventure
The Dash for Khartoum
A rousing Victorian adventure set against the Nile campaign in the Sudan, following young heroes into danger, duty, and the dust of desert warfare.
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Crime
The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4
The concluding volume of G.
$8.50
Fiction
The Fifth Queen Crowned
The final volume of Ford Madox Ford's trilogy on Katharine Howard, following her rise and peril at the treacherous court of Henry VIII.
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Fiction
The Prairie Mother
A woman's diary of marriage, motherhood and hard weather on the Canadian prairie, told with candour and dry humour as domestic strain tests a homesteading household.
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Historical Fiction
The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
Henryk Sienkiewicz's sweeping medieval epic of Poland and the Teutonic Knights, culminating in the clash of arms that would decide a kingdom's fate.
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Fiction
Cameron of Lochiel
A historical novel of old French Canada, following friendship and loyalty as the fortunes of war divide two young men.
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Adventure
The Wandering Jew — Complete
Eugène Sue's sprawling nineteenth-century epic of intrigue, following a scattered family pursued across the world by a ruthless conspiracy.
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Fiction
The Gilded Age
Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.
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Classics
Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo's sweeping medieval romance, gathered around the great cathedral of Paris and the souls whose fates are bound to it.
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Adventure
The Zeppelin's Passenger
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Classics
Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.
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Adventure
A Victor of Salamis
William Stearns Davis's rousing historical novel of ancient Greece, set amid the Persian Wars and the great sea battle of Salamis, where courage and love are tested against the fat
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Adventure
One of the Six Hundred
A tale of soldiering and valour that takes its title from Tennyson's immortal charge, where six hundred rode into the guns.
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Adventure
Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty
Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling historical romance set in Renaissance Italy: a tale of honour, love, and intrigue among the courts and condottieri of Urbino, told with the master s
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Adventure
The Spy
James Fenimore Cooper's Revolutionary War novel of a mysterious pedlar suspected as a British spy, torn loyalties and midnight risks in the contested no-man's-land of the Hudson.
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Historical Fiction
The Reign of Greed
José Rizal's darker sequel to Noli Me Tangere, in which a returned exile plots amid corruption and colonial cruelty, hastening a nation toward its reckoning.
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Fiction
The rose of old St. Louis
A historical romance set in old St.
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Adventure
Under the Red Dragon
A Victorian adventure novel of soldiering, love and loyalty, its title carrying the red dragon of a regimental banner into war and romance.
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Fiction
The Entailed Hat
A sprawling historical novel of the old Delmarva country, drawing on the notorious kidnapping trade that preyed on free Black people along the border between slave and free states
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Fiction
The Dop Doctor
A sprawling wartime novel set against a South African siege, following a disgraced doctor and the woman whose fate crosses his.
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Fiction
The Long Roll
Mary Johnston's sweeping Civil War novel following Confederate soldiers, including the campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, through the ordeal of the American war.
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Fiction
The Bishop of Cottontown
A novel of the American South set amid the world of cotton, faith, and community.
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Fiction
Paul Clifford — Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton's dramatic novel of a young man drawn into a life of crime as a gentleman highwayman, opening with the most famous stormy night in fiction and building into a
$9.50
Adventure
Mr. Standfast
John Buchan's rousing First World War thriller, the third Richard Hannay adventure, sending its hero undercover through a Britain riddled with espionage on the trail of a dangerous
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Classics
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's world-shaking novel of slavery in America, whose portrait of human suffering and dignity helped galvanise the abolitionist cause and change the course of a
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Fiction
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
A novel of family, fortune and moral testing centred on a disputed inheritance, following the fortunes of those entangled in the De Willoughby claim as long-standing hopes meet the
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Historical Fiction
Quintus Claudius
A historical romance of imperial Rome, bringing the intrigues, splendour, and dangers of the ancient city to life.
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Fiction
The Prairie Wife
A frank, tender novel told through a young woman's letters and diary as she leaves comfort behind for a hard, hopeful life on the North American prairie with the man she has marrie
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Adventure
Catriona
Robert Louis Stevenson continues David Balfour’s adventures through kidnapping, legal peril, divided loyalties, romance, and Jacobite intrigue with wit and momentum.
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Adventure
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson's breathless Scottish adventure, in which a robbed orphan is flung into a Highland flight across moor and mountain after the Jacobite rising, bound to a dang
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Children
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
The great medieval love story retold with grace and passion: a knight, a queen, a fatal potion, and a love that defies king, honour, and death itself, one of the founding legends o
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Adventure
Lorna Doone
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Adventure
The Hero of the People
A sweeping romance of the French Revolution from the great Dumas, carrying its characters through the fever of Paris as an old regime falls and a new age is born in blood.
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Adventure
The Yeoman Adventurer
A historical adventure novel of loyalty, intrigue, and derring-do set against the turbulence of eighteenth-century England.
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Adventure
The Pirate: Andrew Lang Edition
A seafaring tale presented in an edition associated with Andrew Lang, the great Victorian anthologist and man of letters.
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Children
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain's beloved tale of two identical boys, a Tudor prince and a beggar, who trade places and learn hard truths about power and poverty in old England.
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Historical Fiction
The Lady of the Lake
Sir Walter Scott's sweeping narrative poem of the Scottish Highlands, weaving love, honour, and clan rivalry around a mysterious lady and a hunted king.
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Classics
Benito Cereno
Herman Melville's tense novella sets an American captain aboard a strange Spanish slave ship where nothing is as it seems, in a masterful, unsettling study of slavery, perception a
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Fiction
The Blithedale Romance
A group of idealists retreats to found a utopian farming community, where high hopes tangle with jealousy and self-deception.
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Classics
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.
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Classics
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton’s great novel of New York society follows Lily Bart through wealth, scrutiny, desire, and social ruin with wit, elegance, and devastating precision.
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Classics
The Age of Innocence
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