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Historical Novels — page 10
456 public-domain historical novels books, summarised. Page 10 of 10.
When Buffalo Ran
George Bird Grinnell
A young boy learns the ways of the prairie, transitioning from childhood games to the perilous, sacred responsibilities of a Plains warrior.
A book of dear dead women
Edna Worthley Underwood
This collection of stories explores the collision between human obsession and the cold, unyielding nature of the past, weaving together tales of art, historical tragedy, and the supernatural.
A Girl of the Commune
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
HOOK A young Englishman finds his fortune shattered, leading him into the crucible of the 1871 Paris Commune, where war and personal transformation collide in an epic struggle for survival.
Gudrid the Fair: A Tale of the Discovery of America
Maurice Hewlett
HOOK This is a lyrical reimagining of the Norse discovery of North America, shifting the focus from the icy horizon to the intimate, often tragic lives of the people behind the sagas.
The Master of Stair
Marjorie Bowen
A haunting tale of political obsession and personal ruin, this narrative follows the cold, calculated maneuvers that lead to the infamous massacre of the Macdonald clan in the Scottish Highlands.
King-Errant
Flora Annie Webster Steel
A restless king of the East seeks his destiny through poetry, battle, and love, leaving behind a legacy of both empire and humanity.
The Great White Army
Max Pemberton
The tragic, freezing disintegration of a once-proud army unfolds through the eyes of a veteran surgeon, charting a desperate path from the heights of a captured Moscow to the bitter survival of the retreat.
Under King Constantine
Katrina Trask
A series of lyrical tales set in the shadow of Arthur’s death, where the true measure of knighthood is found not in the tournament ring, but in the quiet, agonizing victories of the soul.
Wurra-Wurra
Curtis Dunham
A devoted champion of Saint Patrick embarks on a perilous quest to shatter a mysterious pagan idol, only to discover that the god of the West offers a strangely comforting peace.
Yorkshire Family Romance
Frederick Ross
A collection of historical vignettes that breathes life into the wild, blood-soaked, and legendary past of Yorkshire’s noble houses and rural landscapes.
The Pride of Jennico: Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico
Egerton Castle
A soldier finds his lonely life upended when a mysterious princess enters his home, sparking a dangerous, long-running game of mistaken identity and romantic pursuit that stretches across the map of Europe.
The Red Cross Girls in Belgium
Margaret Vandercook
The four American Red Cross girls, having already served in the British trenches and the French countryside, find themselves in occupied Belgium, where the realities of war and the personal burdens of the heart collide. Faced with hunger, illness, and the shadow of the German authorities, they must navigate the…
Frey and His Wife
Maurice Hewlett
This brisk, ironic tale follows an unlikely pair of men—one a cowardly trickster and the other an honorable fugitive—as their paths cross, diverge, and finally collide in the shadow of a wooden god. It is a sharp study in the difference between the appearance of courage and the substance of it.
The Abbatial Crosier
Eugène Sue
In the shadow of a medieval abbey, a captured warrior and a captive goldsmith join forces to orchestrate a desperate escape from a ruthless, power-hungry abbess.
Angel Agnes: The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport
Charles Wesley Alexander
This brief, earnest narrative captures the spirit of self-sacrifice during the devastating 1873 yellow fever epidemic in Shreveport, Louisiana, chronicling the final mission of a young woman who gives everything to aid the suffering.
Caste
William Alexander Fraser
The stability of the British Raj in India is precariously balanced against the hidden machinations of local rulers and the fanatical devotion of ancient, ritual-bound sects. This historical fiction weaves a tale of duty, betrayal, and a doomed romance that plays out against the backdrop of an empire on the brink of…
Psyche
Walter S. (Walter Samuel) Cramp
A innocent young family of Greek performers is drawn into the deadly, paranoid inner circles of Imperial Rome. Power, corruption, and fragile virtue collide as the court of Tiberius unravels.
The Bandolero
Mayne Reid
A soldier in a foreign land finds his heart captured by a mystery, only to discover that love and war in the mountains are as dangerous as they are intoxicating.
The Glorious Return: A Story of the Vaudois in 1689
Crona Temple
The "Glorious Return" of 1689 marks the definitive moment when a persecuted people reclaimed their ancestral Alpine homes through faith and sheer tenacity. This historical narrative documents how a small, beleaguered band of Vaudois exiles defied the geopolitical machinations of kings to secure their religious freedom.
The Silver Maple
Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
The path to one's true identity is often obscured by the tangled roots of family pride and long-held grudges. In the rugged landscapes of Canada, a young man must navigate a legacy of conflict to claim his future.
The Making of William Edwards
Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.
When a grieving widow faces a steep Welsh mountain with five children and a farm to work, her young son’s silent fixation on stones and structure slowly lays the groundwork for a legendary architectural triumph.
Four days
Hetty Hemenway
A young American bride spends four days in England with her soldier husband before he departs for the Dardanelles, capturing a fleeting, desperate moment of love held against the encroaching shadow of the Great War.
Orrain: A Romance
S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
A disgraced French nobleman fights his way through royal intrigue, religious persecution, and a treacherous brother to save the woman he loves.
The Young Carpenters of Freiberg: A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
Anonymous
A child dies in an isolated mill, caught between warring soldiers, while an honest apprentice carries a dangerous secret past the town gates. Outside the walls of Freiberg, an army waits to destroy everything inside.