
Tales of Revolutionary War: 30 Historical Novels
Thirty Historical Novels of Espionage, Battle, Romance, and Liberty in Revolutionary AmericaBy Herman Melville, Winston Churchill, Rafael Sabatini, Charles Carleton Coffin, James Fenimore Cooper, Randall Parrish, Alexandre Dumas, S. Weir Mitchell, Cyrus Townsend Brady, Robert W. Chambers, John Pendleton Kennedy, Frank Baird, Bret Harte, Alfred Henry Lewis, Joseph A. Altsheler, James Francis Barrett, Herbert Baird Stimpson, Jeanie Gould Lincoln, Sarah J. Prichard, Maurice Thompson, James Otis, Hezekiah Butterworth, John Esten Cooke, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Neilson Stephens, Amelia E. Barr, Maturin M. BallouLength298h 24m
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Tales of Revolutionary War: 30 Historical Novels gathers a capacious body of Revolutionary-era fiction in which military conflict, political allegiance, domestic sacrifice, espionage, frontier encounter, and the afterlife of independence converge. Ranging from romance-inflected adventure and sea narrative to regional chronicle, juvenile historical tale, and psychologically alert historical romance, the volume demonstrates how the Revolution became a fertile imaginative archive. Dramatic campaigns, divided households, clandestine missions, and encounters between mythic national origins and local experience give the collection both narrative momentum and historiographical interest. Its contributors—among them Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alexandre Dumas, Rafael Sabatini, Bret Harte, and numerous popular historical storytellers—represent distinct nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century traditions of transatlantic romance, American regionalism, adventure writing, and patriotic historical fiction. Their varied positions illuminate how the Revolution was repeatedly reconstructed for later audiences: as republican founding drama, moral education, chivalric adventure, and a contested memory shaped by class, gender, region, and empire. Together, these voices reveal the literary machinery through which national history becomes legend. This anthology is especially valuable for readers seeking a comparative view of Revolutionary War representation across styles and generations. It invites study of historical fiction's pleasures and ideological stakes while fostering dialogue among canonical and neglected popular works. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find a rich single-volume archive of narrative experimentation, cultural memory, and competing visions of the American founding.
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GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length298 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete Works of Thomas Jefferson (Annotated)
26XXIII SUNDERING OF HEARTSTRINGS
2Daughters of the Revolution
27XXIV IN THE OLD HOME
3INTRODUCTION
28The Spy
4I ROBERT WALDEN GOES TO MARKET
29Author’s Introduction
5II FIRST DAY IN BOSTON
30Chapter I
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6III THE SONS OF LIBERTY
31Chapter II
7IV AN EVENING WITH SAM ADAMS
32Chapter III
8V A GARDEN TEA-PARTY
33Chapter IV
9VI CHRIST CHURCH CHIMES
34Chapter V
10VII LAUNCHING OF THE BERINTHIA BRANDON
35Chapter VI
11VIII CHRISTOPHER SNIDER
36Chapter VII
12IX THE LOBSTERS AND ROPEMAKERS
37Chapter VIII
13X MRS. NEWVILLE’S DINNER-PARTY
38Chapter IX
14XI SOCIETY LIFE IN LONDON
39Chapter X
15XII A NEW ENGLAND GIRL
40Chapter XI
16XIII THE MOHAWKS AND THEIR TEA-PARTY
41Chapter XII
17XIV BENEVOLENCE AND BROTHERHOOD
42Chapter XIII
18XV THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
43Chapter XIV
19XVI THE MORNING DRUMBEAT
44Chapter XV
20XVII BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA
45Chapter XVI
21XVIII BESIEGED
46Chapter XVII
22XIX BUNKER HILL
47Chapter XVIII
23XX WHEN THE TIDE WAS GOING OUT
48Chapter XIX
24XXI THE ESCAPE
49Chapter XX
25XXII BRAVE OF HEART
50Chapter XXI