Historical Fiction

For America’s Children Volume I of America’s Story for America’s Children. This volume tells the story of America from the perspective of America’s...

The Vikings The story of Harald Fairhair, starting in childhood, and his many adventures as he unites Norway as their king. As the Viking populatio...

New Forest Set during the English Civil War, the story follows the Beverley children who are orphaned when their father, Colonel Beverly, is killed...

An Epic Poem An epic poem in trochaic tetrameter about the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for...

Bulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from antiquity including the Greeks, Romans, and others. Written for a general audience, t...

Homeric Legends Andrew Lang’s recounting of the wars between the Greeks and the people of Troy. Featuring such renowned characters as Paris, Helen ...

Richard The Fearless Historical fiction based on the life of Richard I, Duke of Normandy also known as Richard the Fearless.  Richard assumes the ...

Tom Swift Series Tom Swift lives in fictional Shopton, New York with his father Barton Swift, the founder of Swift Construction Company. Tom is kno...

His Travels and Adventures The fascinating account of the life of Marco Polo who journey’s east to the court of Kublai Khan with his father and unc...

Honor and Chivalry Set in the 15th century, a young squire, Myles Falworth, seeks to become a knight and to redeem his father’s honor. Myles trains...

Bulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from early British history during the reign of King Arthur. Written for a general audience...

The Faerie Queene Retold A classic retelling of Edmund Spenser’s English epic poem, The Faerie Queene. The poem is one of the longest in the Englis...

A Romance A historical fiction novel based in England during the Middle Ages. One of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular works, it has been credited wi...

A Tale of The Crusades The story of Cuthbert de Lance, a teenage page for an English nobleman, as he follows King Richard to the Holy Land during t...

Hundred Years’ War A historical adventure novel set in England, France, and Spain during the Hundred Years’ War against the backdrop of the campaig...

A Story of Wallace and Bruce At the end of the thirteenth century, the oppressed people of Scotland rebelled against their despised English ruler, ...

A Tale of Ancient Egypt A young prince named Amuba is taken as a slave by the Egyptians after his father, and king of the Rebu people, is killed in...

A Hand Of Silver Is Better Than A Hand Of Iron The story of Otto Conrad, the son of Baron Conrad, a German robber baron of Castle Drachenhausen (Dr...

Bulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from Middle Ages during the time of Charlemagne. Written for a general audience, the book ...

Told From Homer The retelling of the Iliad by Rev. Alfred J. Church.  The book is intended as an introduction to Homer’s epic poem. The writing sty...

Told From Homer The retelling of the Odyssey by Rev. Alfred J. Church.  The book is intended as an introduction to Homer’s epic poem. The writing s...

The Captivity of Mary of Scotland Historical fiction based on the life of Mary of Scotland during the reign of her cousin Queen Elizabeth and the s...

The Adventures of David Balfour A historical fiction novel set in the 18th century around Scottish events. The story is narrated by David Balfour, ...

Arabian Nights Andrew Lang’s retelling of the famous stories of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic) also known as Arabian Nights (English). The wo...

By the Sieur Louis de Conte Mark Twain’s last completed novel, it is presented as a translation by “Jean Francois Alden” of memoirs by Louis de Con...

Or The Mutiny of The Hispaniola A coming-of-age adventure novel narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. The book had an enormous influence ...

It was the best of times... Dicken’s best-known work of historical fiction and regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. The novel tel...

A Story of The Norman Conquest Wulf of Steyning is thane to King Harold Godwinson assisting him in the Welsh wars and taking part in the Battle of ...

A War Novel Henry Fleming, a young private in the Union Army, deserts his regiment and flees during his first battle in the American Civil War. Ove...

A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Narrated by Ruth who is twelve years old in the year 1630 and is headed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony wit...

A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Set in Flat Creek, Indiana during the middle of the 19th-century, the story follows the experiences of the new...

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy Padraic Colum’s classic retelling of the Odyssey and the Iliad for children. Included are such famo...

Of Long Ago The story of Biarne Herjulfson, a Viking boy, laid during the time of Leif Ericson when the Vikings were exploring new lands. Their exp...

Of Long Ago The story of Hugh, a page to King Richard of England, during the third crusade in June of the year 1191. The story provides an insight ...

Those fields, colored by various grains! The story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants farming the Nebraska prairie at the turn of the ...

Of Long Ago The story of Ferdiad, a Celtic boy, laid during the time of Brian Boru when Ireland was one of the last of the Celtic lands. The story ...

A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper’s best known novel and second volume in his pentalogy the Leatherstocking Tales. Set during the French an...

The Times of Hannibal The story follows Malchus, Hannibal’s cousin, as he joins Hannibal in his attempt to conquer Rome in the Second Punic War (21...

Told From VirgilThe retelling of the Æneid by Rev. Alfred J. Church.  The book is intended as an introduction to Virgil’s epic poem. The writing st...

Of Long Ago The story of Rainolf, a Frankish boy, laid during the time of Charlemagne when his rule over Western Europe spurred the Carolingian Ren...

A Story of the Roman Invasion The story of Beric, a young British chieftain, who with his fellow tribesmen bristle under Roman Rule during the reig...

Rob Roy MacGregor A historical fiction novel and one of the Waverly novels. The story is narrated by Englishman Frank Osbadistone who due to a disa...

A Tale of the Time of Nero A historical fiction novel first published in Polish, the author’s native language, and has been translated into over di...

Kimball O’Hara The story of Kimball O’Hara, or ‘Kim’ for short, an orphaned son of an Irish solider and poor Irish mother who have both died in pov...

Mythos Bulfinch originally published his work as three volumes: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, published in 1855; The Age of Chiv...

Of Long Ago The story of Henri and Alan, Norman boys, laid during the time of William the Conqueror. The boys’ story gives a picture of court life ...

The Third Crusade Taking place at the end of the Third Crusade, scheming and partisan politics, as well as the illness of King Richard the Lionhear...

The Best Days Are First To Flee The stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, who lives with his grandparents and Antonia Shimerda, the...