Historical novels. European type preferred. It doesn't matter if it's fact or fiction.?

Answer 1

How about Charles Dickens' novel about the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities. That's excellent.

The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett is set in the late 1800s/early 1900s when a lot of single daughters of American socialites were traveling to England to marry impoverished noblemen...excellent.

The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy is set during the French Revolution and with British noblemen rescuing some of the people destined for the guillotine.

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is excellent, too.

Alexandre Dumas has several really good historical novels such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Edith Wharton has several books that would be in the historical category like The Buccaneers (about American heiresses going to Europe to marry noblemen).

Jean Plaidy (a.k.a. Victoria Holt) wrote historical novels like The Courts of Love: The Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine; The Queen's Secret; Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII (and others of Henry VIII's wives); Lilith and more.

Georgette Heyer wrote many Regency novels, but she also wrote of medieval times - for instance - in the book Simon the Coldheart.

Winston Graham has an excellent series called the Poldark series which starts with the book Ross Poldark (in which he's coming home to Cornwall after fighting in the American Revolution).

There is also Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott and Rob Roy.

There are a wealth of historical novels from which to choose. I hope you enjoy whatever you pick!

Answer 2

I absolutely loved Jack Whyte's Camulod series. There are like 7 or 8 books in the series, which is a different kind of take on the King Arthur story.

Instead of dealing with the mythology aspect of it, it uses Britain's own early history with the Roman occupation and all that occurred after that. The story starts about a hundred years before Arthur is born when the Roman military are being pulled out of Britain and being sent back to Rome.

The story is told from the viewpoints of the people in Arthur's family. From his great-grandfather, to his cousin, Merlyn, and in the last two books, the person who would be known as Lancelot.

It's an amazing story, and I think you'll like it if you give it a try.

Answer 3

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Ericksson was great as was The LAst Wife of Henry VIII by the same author. Phillippa Gregory's novels are wonderful too she did The Other Boleyn Girl; The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virign's Lover and others.

Answer 4

go to www.historicalromancewriters.com, there you will find just about anything you ever wanted to read. There is a pull down where you can click on any time period.