Fiction - Historical

“An enduring testament and prophecy.” –Chicago Sun-TimesA Penguin Classic Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lec...

"The Raven" and "The Pit and the Pendulum" so dominate our recollection of Poe that we forget his versatility. For example, THE NARRATIVE OF A. G...

At once a rollicking adventure story and an earnest political allegoryOrphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last living rela...

One of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham’s reputation as a literary masterThe Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charles Stri...

“The surprise ‘must-read’ for people facing the Covid-19 epidemic.” —The TelegraphIn 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 l...

During the tumultuous reign of James II, Englishman Peter Blood, a gentleman-physician, barely escapes the gallows after his arrest for treating ...

'The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of hero's, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth a...

Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wild...

Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur....

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an ...

The greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translatorThe Underdogs is the first great novel...

A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance -- "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." --Tommy...