Books Tagged ‘Historical’
Persuasion(novel)
Subject: Fiction
Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. It was published along with Northanger Abbey at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The novel was published on De...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, Romance, British
Heart of Darkness
Subject: Fiction
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad. It tells the story of Charles Marlow, a sailor who takes on an assignment from a Belgian trading ...
Tags: Adventure, Academic, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature, School, Africa
Hard Times
Subject: Fiction
Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the soc...
Tags: Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
Ethan Frome
Subject: Fiction
Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. In one of American fiction’s finest and most in...
Tags: Academic, Historical, Literature, Romance
Oliver Twist
Subject: Fiction
The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the ̶...
Tags: Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself
Subject: Historical
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The narrati...
Tags: Classics, Politics, Historical, African
Anna Karenina
Subject: Fiction
Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and T...
Tags: Fiction, Historical, Romance, Russia
Sense and Sensibility
Subject: Fiction
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16½) as they come of age. They ...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature
The Jungle
Subject: Fiction
The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the U...
Tags: Politics, Fiction, Historical, Literature
David Copperfield
Subject: Fiction
David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life un...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature