Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #231

  From Here to Eternity

  by James Jones

  (2 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still..."

  

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  #237

  The Charterhouse of Parma

  by Stendhal

  (2 Reviews)

  88 Points

  "Le 15 mai 1796, le général Bonaparte fit son entrée dans Milan à la tête de cette jeune armée qui venait de passer le pont de Lodi, et d'apprendre au monde qu'après tant de siècles César et..."

  

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  #240

  The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

  by Naguib Mahfouz

  (1 Review)

  87 Points

  

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  #244

  The Red and the Black

  by Stendhal

  (4 Reviews)

  86 Points

  "La petite ville de Verrières peut passer pour l'une des plus jolies de la Franche-Comté.The small town of Verrieres may be regarded as one of the prettiest in the Franche-Comte."

  

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  #254

  The Naked and the Dead

  by Norman Mailer

  (1 Review)

  83 Points

  "Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assult craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on he beach at Anopopei. All over the ship, all through..."

  

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  #255

  Orlando: A Biography

  by Virginia Woolf

  (4 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "He - for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it - was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."

  

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  #258

  A Tale of Two Cities

  by Charles Dickens

  (10 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of..."

  

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  #260

  Les Misérables

  by Victor Hugo

  (19 Reviews)

  81 Points

  "In the Year 1815 Monseigneur Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne."

  

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  #262

  Dream of the Red Chamber

  by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

  (1 Review)

  81 Points

  "When the Goddess Nugua undertook to repair the Dome of Heaven, she fashioned at the Great Mythical Mountain under the Nonesuch Bluff 36,501 pieces of stone, each 120 feet high and 240 feet around...."

  

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  #265

  Oscar and Lucinda

  by Peter Carey

  (2 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea."

  

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