CK - Historical 12

Phineas Magnetron is an eccentric Nineteenth Century inventor and former Union soldier who sustained a war injury which has unaccountably bestowed upon him a strange gift he doesn't completely under……続きを見る

The Tale of Troy was not Homer's alone. Even before he sang of the Wrath of Achilles and the Return of Odysseus, many other poets had recounted the acts of gods and men at Troy. Over many years the ……続きを見る

Can't get enough historical fiction? Immerse yourself in this imaginative retelling of the events that led up to and followed the restoration of the British monarchy in the late seventeenth century.……続きを見る

Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens upbringing was a mix……続きを見る

Here is an unprecedented fiction debut that is cause for celebration. Growing up in a family that valued the art of storytelling and the power of oral history, Thomas Steinbeck now follows in his fa……続きを見る

Vivid, straight forward and amazing is the story of Fanny Adler as it has been passed orally through the years to the eldest of each generation. Now in straight-forward language that story, held inv……続きを見る

Book 9, American Family Portrait. The Morgan saga reaches present day. Ethan Morgan never wanted to be the heir of a three-century-old family legacy. But when his brother is murdered, and the symbol……続きを見る

A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature’s best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her positi……続きを見る

Set on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan during the fall of 1871, To Keep the South Manitou Light tells the fictional tale of a twelve-year-old girl named Jessie, whose family has been taking ca……続きを見る

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses ……続きを見る

Under the cover of darkness, two fugitives flee into the night, but their pursuers are hot on their heels. One mistake could mean the difference between life and death, but with only freedom to gain……続きを見る

Londres au XVIIIème siècle. Les protestants transcendés par lord George Gordon se rebellent contre le parlement et les catholiques. De sanglantes émeutes éclatent……続きを見る

A bloody war engulfs the Balkans' nations of Montrovia and Corabia. Walter Krang, a brutal Montrovian concentration camp guard, escapes certain death as a war criminal when an inmate forgives him a……続きを見る

In his first paperback for HarperCollins, master storyteller Jack Higgins displays all his customary skills in a heart-pounding adventure with a less familiar setting – 19th-century rural Ireland – ……続きを見る

Renowned storyteller Charles Dickens takes on the historical novel in Barnaby Rudge, a gripping fictionalized account of the anti-Catholicism turmoil that rocked England in the late eighteenth centu……続きを見る

Gone Over is the story of the American Revolution seen through the reverse lens of British Intelligenceーa view never quite seen before. Israel Potter is the best known private soldier of the Revolu……続きを見る

George Tilson is an eighteen-year-old farm boy from Iowa. Enlisted in the Army during World War II and arriving in Normandy just after D-day, he is nicknamed Heck for his reluctance to swear. From s……続きを見る

This here's the story of Jack Schidtt and how he come to be sheriff. Growing up with a name like that, Jack's learned a few things about what's worth fighting for. He's just 17 years old when Nichol……続きを見る

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's……続きを見る

From the furious mantrap called the Battle of Bunker Hill to a raging disaster at sea, The Brimstone Papers tells the first year of the Revolutionary War as no one has ever thought to do. The story,……続きを見る

Major Peter Hoffa, Luftwaffe ace is shot down a few weeks before the Battle of Britain. He crash-lands his Messerschmitt 109 Emil in a Sussex field. On the run in the land of his enemy, he has one ……続きを見る

Sweeping from the early 1920s through to the end of World War II, Sons and Daughters by Margaret Dickinson is a compelling, traditional saga set against the Lincolnshire landscape that Margaret Dick……続きを見る

Billy rubbed his hand along the smooth woodwork of the rifle slung over his shoulder. “Do you think we’ll get to fight at last.” For most of the new men their greatest fear had always been that the ……続きを見る

Whisper Creek is a Civil War short story about a single day in the life of Chaplain Joseph Meyers. Unsatisfied with the spiritual decisions of the men in his charge, Joseph plans to give the sermon ……続きを見る

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French ar……続きを見る

Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens upbringing was a mix……続きを見る

It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convic……続きを見る

The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries ……続きを見る

„Sherry Thomas’ Bücher sind eine Offenbarung.“ーNew York Times Bestseller-Autorin Lisa Kleypas Als der Duke of Lexington auf einem Ozeandampfer der geheimnisvollen Baronin von Seidlitz-Hardenberg be……続きを見る

This novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries……続きを見る