Books Tagged ‘Historical’ - Page 2
Leviathan
Subject: Philosophy
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and publi...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Politics, Historical, Nonfiction
Les Misérables
Subject: Fiction
Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Beginning in 1815 and cul...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, France
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Subject: Historical
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Mas...
Tags: Classics, Historical, Biography, Memoir
Great Expectations
Subject: Fiction
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel, which depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungs...
Tags: Classics, Historical, Literature, School
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Subject: Fiction
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitu...
Tags: American, Classics, Fiction, Historical
The Secret Garden
Subject: Fiction
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialization in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in ...
Tags: Classics, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical
Anne of Green Gables
Subject: Fiction
Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L.M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children̵...
Tags: Childrens, Young Adult, Historical
Jane Eyre
Subject: Fiction
Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name “Currer Bell”, on 16 Octo...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, Romance
The Scarlet Letter
Subject: Fiction
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years...
Tags: Classics, Young Adult, Academic, Historical