Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #556

  The Betrothed

  by Alessandro Manzoni

  (3 Reviews)

  14 Points

  "Quel ramo del lago di Como, che volge a mezzogiorno, tra due catene non interrotte di monti, tutto a seni e golfi, a seconda dello sporgere e del rientrare di quelli, vien quasi a un tratto, a..."

  

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  #557

  The Last of the Mohicans

  by James Fenimore Cooper

  (4 Reviews)

  13 Points

  "It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an..."

  

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  #562

  The Alienist

  by Caleb Carr

  (3 Reviews)

  13 Points

  "January 8th, 1919 Theodore is in the ground."

  

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  #563

  Uncle Tom's Cabin

  by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  (6 Reviews)

  12 Points

  "Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining-parlor, in the town of P_______, in Kentucky."

  

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  #568

  Loving

  by Henry Green

  (1 Review)

  12 Points

  

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  #579

  An Artist of the Floating World

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  (2 Reviews)

  10 Points

  "If on a sunny day you climb the steep path leading up from the little wooden bridge still referred to around here as ‘the Bridge of Hesitation’, you will not have to walk far before the roof of my..."

  

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  #593

  Cry, the Beloved Country

  by Alan Paton

  (2 Reviews)

  7 Points

  "There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills."

  

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  #598

  Katherine

  by Anya Seton

  (1 Review)

  6 Points

  "In the tender green time of April, Katherine set forth at last upon her journey with two nuns and the royal messenger."

  

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  #599

  A Little Princess

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  (7 Reviews)

  6 Points

  "Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an..."

  

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  #609

  Where Angels Fear to Tread

  by E. M. Forster

  (3 Reviews)

  3 Points

  "They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off--Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself."

  

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