20 Must-Read Historical Novels - format ePub

Lovecraft se refirió a La casa y el cerebro como uno de los mejores relatos de casas encantadas jamás escritos. Y Lafcadio Hearn afirmó que estamos ante la mejor historia de fantasmas creada en lengua...

Im Mittelpunkt dieses fantastisch abenteuerlichen Romans aus der Zeit der französischen Revolution steht die geheimnisvolle Bruderschaft der Rosenkreuzer, und folgt man der Ansicht seines Verfassers Edward...

Novelist and statesman, third son of General Earle Bulwer of Heydon and Dalling, Norfolk, and of Elizabeth Lytton, heiress of Knebworth, Herts, was born in London, and educated privately and at Cambridge...

In the year 18— I settled as a physician at one of the wealthiest of our great English towns, which I will designate by the initial L?. I was yet young, but I had acquired some reputation by a professional...

A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, "Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London." "Really...

IT was towards the evening of a day in early April that two ladies were seated by the open windows of a cottage in Devonshire. The lawn before them was gay with evergreens, relieved by the first few flowers...

I have spoken so much of the Vril Staff that my reader may expect me to describe it. This I cannot do accurately, for I was never allowed to handle it for fear of some terrible accident occasioned by...

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but even then no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467,...

'HO, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus tonight?' said a young man of small stature, who wore his tunic in those loose and effeminate folds which proved him to be a gentleman and a coxcomb. 'Alas,...

"Is the night calm, Constance?" "Beautiful! the moon is up." "Open the shutters wider, there. It is a beautiful night. How beautiful! Come hither, my child." The rich moonlight that now shone through...

"Sir—sir, it is a boy!" "A boy," said my father, looking up from his book, and evidently much puzzled: "what is a boy?" Now my father did not mean by that interrogatory to challenge philosophical inquiry,...

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton...

Quando un giovane americano in visita in Inghilterra cade in un crepaccio di una miniera, si ritrova in un mondo sotterraneo abitato da un popolo tecnicamente avanzato, e ignaro dell’esistenza di una...

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei è un romanzo scritto da Edward Bulwer-Lytton nel 1834. Nel romanzo prendono vita i più variegati personaggi della Pompei dell’anno 79 d.C., città gaudente e spensierata, che...

Una sofferta love story, che e? anche un lungo viaggio alla ricerca dell’anima, tra un giovane medico dalle idee materialiste e una fanciulla persa in un mondo visionario. Loro antagonista e? un mago-superuomo...

C’était au commencement du mois d’avril ; le jour touchait à sa fin ; deux dames étaient assises à la fenêtre ouverte d’un cottage du Devonshire. La pelouse qui s’étendait devant elles était parsemée...

'Astonishing' M. R. Carey, author of Infinity Gate‘Utterly unique, constantly surprising, genuinely unsettling... may very well take its place among the best sci-fi novels of the century so far.' Blake...

A thrilling and ominously prophetic debut set in a world when Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary—and highly controversial—procedure in which two...

Three books in one, Supermax is a pitch-black crime comedy from two of the hottest thriller writers on either side of the Atlantic. These newly collected cult novels are a bloody, bawdy odyssey of drug...

Red, White & Royal Blue meets the theater world of London’s dazzling West End in this nuanced, queer debut romance in which a fake dating publicity stunt between rival co-stars results in romantic...

In this witty fantasy horror from New York Times bestselling, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author T. Kingfisher, a young woman seeking a fresh start is confronted by ancient gods, malevolent supernatural...

Some inheritances are worth refusing...Malcolm Wells knows the rules of his father's empire: obey, succeed, survive. But when Flora, a defiant servant with magical blood, refuses to bow to those rules,...

After Revenge of the Sith, a newly forged Darth Vader hunts for the secrets of life and death under the watchful eye of Emperor Palpatine.In the wake of Emperor Palpatine’s rise to power, the true nature...

Blending Indian mythology and classic space opera, Project Hanuman is a bold new science-fiction novel from Stewart Hotston, perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky.The ship needed to hear voices, to know...

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip...

The first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack—a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her father,...

Memories are malleable, dreams are a battlefield, and reality is a shifting landscape. Think Inception meets Dark Matter, with echoes of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the unsettling corporate...

From the “masterly” (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship…only to discover that it may be harder to pretend than they...

Él anhela el amor; ella lo teme Shawn sueña con encontrar una relación para toda la vida, pero solo encuentra frustración—hasta que conoce a Violet, una mujer hermosa y misteriosa que ve más allá de su...

About the book:He longs for love; she fears it. Shawn dreams of finding a lifelong relationship,  but only finds frustration—until he meets Violet, a beautiful, mysterious woman who sees past his autism...

Readers of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander will love this fantasy tale of folklore and witchcraft from Scotland.Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising....

New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award–nominated comics writer Cullen Bunn presents his adult novel debut—a high-stakes hunt for a masked killer whose brutal murders may be a portent of an evil as...

“Thriller master” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine) Janet Evanovich takes you on a global hunt to track down missing masterpieces in this action-packed and steamy sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller...

A powerful collection of short stories that shines a light on a tumultuous time in America's history that forever changed our nation. A freshly made Marine Corps officer, with his new bride in tow, visits...

Emma Haines is ten weeks from finishing her internship and earning a Chicago residency, but must publish her study first. Far from medical school pressures and caring for her disabled brother, she escapes...

A Court of Thorns and Roses meets Outlander in this haunting romantic fantasy that's perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Diana Gabaldon's Highland setting.Five crowns. Two reluctant lovers. One throne...

Lost. Terrified. Alone. Buddy bravely escapes a cruel owner, only to find himself broken, starving, and stranded in the wilderness. As coyotes wail in the frigid dawn, the howling winds and biting snow...

If you love small towns, strong heroines, and protective heroes, USA Today Bestselling author Diane Benefiel's Forbidden Secrets is the book for you.Some Secrets Refuse To Stay BuriedMelanie Brennan's...

A haunted house. A cold case. A new cop in town.Did Edna Crayborne really see a woman getting strangled in the ground floor window of the old Bailey house?Rosie Ryan isn't sure. As a journalist with the...

A spooky séance. A missing ornament. A double murder.Can Vivian Shelly really speak to the dead?Rosie's not a believer, but her doubts are pushed to the limit when she attends one of Vivian's séances....

Reporter Rosie Ryan isn't looking forward to her latest assignment. She'd rather be doing almost anything else than staying with famous actress, Katy Dark, and her entourage at the old Lighthouse Inn....

A mysterious note. A string of unrelated deaths. A legendary monster.Is there a serial killer at work in the tiny town of Port Logan?Rosie Ryan is sceptical when she receives the anonymous note about...

Death. A castle. A posse of cats.Rosie isn't sure what to expect when she gets an invitation to Carlyle Castle.The castle has stood in the heart of the Australian countryside for years, inhabited only...

A UFO conference. A cold case. A missing man.Rosie Ryan faces her toughest challenge ever when she's asked to investigate the death of Hailey Lawrence. The writer was on the verge of international fame...

An accident that's not an accident. Perilous pizza. A pug who knows too much…No one believes Celia Spalt when she gets up at the Storytelling Tent and tells everyone she once witnessed a murder. After...

On Lunaria, peaceful citadels burn as the merciless Djinni sweep across the White Plains, their onslaught threatening to extinguish the dawn of all hope.After a century in captivity, subjected to aetheric...