Books Tagged ‘Historical’ - Page 3
The Count of Monte Cristo
Subject: Fiction
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte...
Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Novels, Historical, France
War and Peace
Subject: Fiction
In Russia’s struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `...
Tags: Classics, Novels, Historical, Literature, Russia, War
Treasure Island
Subject: Fiction
Treasure Island (originally The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys) is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of “buccaneers and buried gol...
Tags: Classics, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Literature
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Subject: Fiction
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel’s schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischie...
Tags: Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Literature
Little Women
Subject: Fiction
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England dur...
Tags: Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Romance
A Tale of Two Cities
Subject: Fiction
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two ver...
Tags: Classics, Academic, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Subject: Fiction
“It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.” So ...
Tags: American, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Historical
Pride and Prejudice
Subject: Romance
Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen in 1813. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of th...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, Romance