Fiction - Historical

Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1941, They Were Strong and Good is a classic book that follows the path of one family’s journey through American h...

The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke’s “mouse”-his p...

Virginia Woolf is one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and Orlando is one of her most unique and fantastic works. The protagon...

'A book to delight every puzzle-suspense enthusiast'—New York Times A suspenseful precursor to modern psychological thrillers, this classic work ...

The Antiquary, Scott's personal favorite among his novels, is characteristically wry and urbane. A mysterious young man calling himself 'Lovel' t...

The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the fa...

More exciting than the Errol Flynn movie! Captain Blood is a classic swashbuckler -- filled with swordplay and adventure. Product DetailsISBN-13...

Set in 1547, The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his ...

Laddie, A True Blue Story (1913) by Gene Stratton Porter is a wonderful and semi-autobiographical novel of siblings, family bonds, struggles and ...

Wharton's antiwar masterpiece, now once again available, probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Interweaving her own experience...

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

The 1934 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a young newlywed woman struggling with her harsh life in rural, impoverished antebellum Georgia."It h...

Historical prose translation of the famous Polish verse epic. In the book, Tadeusz tells the story of two feuding noble families; it takes place ...

This thoroughly readable collection of Malory's famous stories of King Arthur includes the familiar legends, plots, exploits, and characters whic...

Beau Geste is a rollicking adventure story of the French Foreign Legion. Set in the period before World War I it has captured the imagination of ...