Pudd'nhead Wilson is one of Mark Twain's most unsettling late works, a novel that begins in the comic register of a Mississippi River town and gradually darkens into a forensic examination of race, identity, slavery, and social performance.
Diamonds and danger dazzle in Ciesielski's latest enchanting romp through post-war Europe as estranged spouses and jewel thieves hunt an elusive Valkyrie tiara.
Set in the fraught aftermath of the English Civil War and the hysteria of the Popish Plot, Peveril of the Peak interweaves romance, political intrigue, and historical reconstruction with Scott's characteristic breadth.
Fountain of the Drowning is a multi-layered narrative set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period when Egypt witnessed dramatic events, from the constructionof the Suez Canal to the British occuation, which brought about rapid modernaization and the Europeanization of social norms.
In 2035 at Bradfield in Western Sydney, a love triangle develops during a national computer and internet breakdown and the social disruption that follows.
'Ms Conroy's writing is fresh and entertaining, it's like an episode of Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries sprinkled with what I can only describe as a good old-fashioned Miss Marple.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace is a brisk political adventure set amid the volatile aftermath of the First World War in the Near East, where British imperial administration, Arab nationalism, and religious tension intersect.
Set in late-fourteenth-century Scotland, The Fair Maid of Perth is one of Walter Scott's richly textured historical romances, combining civic drama, court intrigue, clan violence, and romantic idealism.
Walter Scott's Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since is a foundational historical novel that dramatizes the Jacobite rising of 1745 through the uncertain loyalties of Edward Waverley, an English gentleman drawn into Highland culture and rebellion.
The Conspirators & The Regent's Daughter gathers two of Alexandre Dumas's Regency romances, narratives of intrigue, disguise, and gallantry set in the unsettled years after Louis XIV.
Bringing together Ninety-Three and Les Miserables, this illustrated edition presents Victor Hugo's grandest meditations on revolution, justice, mercy, and historical destiny.
Eine mutige junge Frau in einer Welt voller Verrat und AberglaubeGrafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg, 1524: Das Glück der Hirtin Gertrud Dey, die sich in den fahrenden Händler Franz Schott verliebt hat, scheint perfekt.
Dieses eBook: "Europäische Minen und Gegenminen: Historischer Roman" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
On the Field of Glory is Henryk Sienkiewicz's late historical romance, set in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on the eve of Jan Sobieski's great struggle against the Ottoman Empire.
The latest instalment in JC Duncan's action-packed Last Viking seriesThe greatest threat to the empire is not a foreign army, but the thirst for power at all costs.
Rilla of Ingleside, the final novel in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne sequence, shifts the imaginative world of Prince Edward Island from pastoral comedy to the gravity of wartime experience.
Little Maid Marian is a tender work of juvenile fiction centered on the emotional and moral education of a young girl whose small domestic adventures become lessons in sympathy, courage, and self-command.
In sitting down to write this historical novel of our Civil War, I have tried to include a number of points in order to convey an interesting story, while at the same time supplying accurate historical dates, places, etc.