The Greatest Historical Novels of All Time
A Treasury of Court Intrigue, Revolution, Romance, and Social Change Across CenturiesBy Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry James, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Edith Wharton, Maria Edgeworth, Henry Fielding, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, Mary Wollstonecraft, Louis Hémon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Grace Livingston Hill, Gilbert Parker, Fanny Fern, Georg Ebers, Fanny Burney, Mary Hays, Robert Williams Buchanan, Mary Angela Dickens, Madame de La Fayette, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. K. Broster, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Leo Tolstoy, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Lady Sydney Morgan, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Mrs. Olifant, María Ruiz de Burton, Lady Charlotte Bury, Philip Meadows Taylor
Length954h 9m
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The Greatest Historical Novels of All Time surveys the historical imagination from the early modern court and the eighteenth-century novel to Victorian empire, transatlantic romance, and modern recollection. Its capacious selection embraces epistolary intrigue, Gothic intensity, domestic realism, social satire, adventure, sentimental fiction, and psychological narrative. Revolutions, dynastic conflicts, colonial encounters, religious upheavals, and the intimacies of everyday life emerge as interwoven subjects; tales of courtly maneuver, frontier experience, and inherited trauma reveal history as both public event and private consciousness. The contributors form an unusually wide-ranging international canon: British, French, American, Russian, Canadian, and Mexican voices, alongside writers shaped by Anglo-Indian and other imperial contexts. They include major innovators of the realist, Romantic, Gothic, sensation, and historical-romance traditions, as well as women whose fiction contests the exclusions of literary history. Across generations, these authors use the past to examine class, gender, nationhood, morality, and power, situating the volume within the development of the modern historical novel. Ideal for students, general readers, and lovers of classic fiction, this anthology offers a singular opportunity to compare distinct methods of making the past legible. Its breadth invites attentive reading across styles, cultures, and political visions, while the conversations among its works illuminate both historical change and the enduring questions literature asks of it.
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Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (11)
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GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length954 hrs 9 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Anne Brontë: The Complete Novels (The Greatest Novelists of All Time – Book 18) (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XXIII
2Love & Passion Through The Ages (Historical Novels Boxed-Set)
27CHAPTER XXIV
3Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers)
28CHAPTER XXV
4CHAPTER 1
29CHAPTER XXVI
5CHAPTER II
30CHAPTER XXVII
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6CHAPTER III
31CHAPTER XXVIII
7CHAPTER IV
32CHAPTER XXIX
8CHAPTER V
33CHAPTER XXX
9CHAPTER VI
34CHAPTER XXXI
10CHAPTER VII
35CHAPTER XXXII
11CHAPTER VIII
36CHAPTER XXXIII
12CHAPTER IX
37CHAPTER XXXIV
13CHAPTER X
38CHAPTER XXXV
14CHAPTER XI
39CHAPTER XXXVI
15CHAPTER XII
40CHAPTER XXXVII
16CHAPTER XIII
41CHAPTER XXXVIII
17CHAPTER XIV
42CHAPTER XXXIX
18CHAPTER XV
43CHAPTER XL
19CHAPTER XVI
44CHAPTER XLI
20CHAPTER XVII
45CHAPTER XLII
21CHAPTER XVIII
46CHAPTER XLIII
22CHAPTER XIX
47CHAPTER XLIV
23CHAPTER XX
48CHAPTER XLV
24CHAPTER XXI
49CHAPTER XLVI
25CHAPTER XXII
50CHAPTER XLVII
The Greatest Historical Novels of All TimeCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry James, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Edith Wharton, Maria Edgeworth, Henry Fielding, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, Mary Wollstonecraft, Louis Hémon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Grace Livingston Hill, Gilbert Parker, Fanny Fern, Georg Ebers, Fanny Burney, Mary Hays, Robert Williams Buchanan, Mary Angela Dickens, Madame de La Fayette, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. K. Broster, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Leo Tolstoy, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Lady Sydney Morgan, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Mrs. Olifant, María Ruiz de Burton, Lady Charlotte Bury, Philip Meadows Taylor953h 56m4.3 (11)$1.99 · $0.00
VilletteCharlotte Brontë24h 9m$1.99 · $0.00
Charlotte Brontë - Obras CompletasCharlotte Brontë77h 9m$1.99 · $0.00
ShirleyCharlotte Brontë26h 42m3.9 (57.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Las hermanas Brontë - Obras completasCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë109h 42m4.6 (1.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Die größten weiblichen BildungsromaneCharlotte Brontë, Johanna Schopenhauer, Johanna Spyri, Jane Austen, Marianne Ehrmann, Caroline von Wolzogen, Gabriele Reuter, Charles Dickens, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Daniel Defoe, Lou Andreas-Salomé, John Cleland, Adalbert Stifter, Charles-Louis Philippe, D. H. Lawrence209h 36m$1 · $0.00
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The Brontë Sisters Collection (Annotated)Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë119h 43m$2 · $0.00
Geschwister Brontë: Sturmhöhe & Jane Eyre (Kommentiert)Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë41h 50m4.4 (112)$2 · $0.00
Shirley (Annotated)Charlotte Brontë26h 42m3.9 (67.2K)$2 · $0.00
Jane Eyre (Kommentiert)Charlotte Brontë28h 16m4.3 (1.9M)$2 · $0.00
Jane Eyre & Wuthering Hights (Annotated)Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë35h 7m$2 · $0.00
Villette (Annotated)Charlotte Brontë24h 7m$2 · $0.00
Charlotte Brontë's Juvenilia: Tales of Angria (Mina Laury, Stancliffe's Hotel), The Story of Willie Ellin, Albion and Marina, Angria and the Angrians, Tales of the Islanders, The Green Dwarf (Annotated)Charlotte Brontë13h 46m3.9 (21)$2 · $0.00
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