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
Length962h 54m
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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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GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length962 hrs 54 mins
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Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Love & Passion Through The Ages (Historical Novels Boxed-Set)
2Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 1)
3Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 2)
4Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 3)
5Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 4)
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6Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 5)
7Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 6)
8Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 7)
9Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 8)
10Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 9)
11The New Abelard: Love in the Times of Cathedrals (Robert Williams Buchanan) (pt. 1)
12The New Abelard: Love in the Times of Cathedrals (Robert Williams Buchanan) (pt. 2)
13The New Abelard: Love in the Times of Cathedrals (Robert Williams Buchanan) (pt. 3)
14The New Abelard: Love in the Times of Cathedrals (Robert Williams Buchanan) (pt. 4)
15The New Abelard: Love in the Times of Cathedrals (Robert Williams Buchanan) (pt. 5)
16Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous) (pt. 1)
17Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous) (pt. 2)
18Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous) (pt. 3)
19Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous) (pt. 4)
20Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous) (pt. 5)
21Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous) (pt. 6)
22Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous) (pt. 7)
23Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini) (pt. 1)
24Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini) (pt. 2)
25Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini) (pt. 3)
26Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini) (pt. 4)
27The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 1)
28The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 2)
29The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 3)
30The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 4)
31The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 5)
32The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 6)
33The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 7)
34The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 8)
35The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 9)
36The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 10)
37The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 11)
38The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 12)
39The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 13)
40The Princess of Cleves (Madame de La Fayette) (pt. 1)
41The Princess of Cleves (Madame de La Fayette) (pt. 2)
42The Princess of Cleves (Madame de La Fayette) (pt. 3)
43The Forest Lovers (Maurice Hewlett) (pt. 1)
44The Forest Lovers (Maurice Hewlett) (pt. 2)
45The Forest Lovers (Maurice Hewlett) (pt. 3)
46The Forest Lovers (Maurice Hewlett) (pt. 4)
47The Forest Lovers (Maurice Hewlett) (pt. 5)
48Malcolm (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
49Malcolm (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
50Malcolm (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
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