Fifty Representative Historical Novels (Jonathan Nield, 1925)

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A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield, 50 Books

This list was compiled by Jonathan Nield who published several editions of "A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales" between 1902 and 1929. This list is from the 1925 edition.

This list was originally published in 1925 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
15811 An Egyptian Princess Georg Ebers 1864 German German
4405 Salammbô Gustave Flaubert 1862 French French
16678 Philochristus Edwin A. Abbott 1878 British English
2131 The Last Days Of Pompeii Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1834 British English
1556 Marius the Epicurean Walter Pater 1885 British English
15811 Callista John Henry Newman 1855 British English
14836 Hypatia Charles Kingsley 1853 British English
11878 Ekkehard Joseph Victor von Scheffel 1855 German German
15811 Harold, The Last Of The Saxon Kings Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1848 British English
6934 The Talisman Sir Walter Scott 1825 Scottish English
300 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 1819 British English
15811 Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1821 British English
10613 Last Of The Barons Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1843 British English
7026 Quentin Durward Sir Walter Scott 1823 Scottish English
2326 Romola George Eliot 1863 British English
364 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 1831 French French
2283 The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1861 British English
15811 Niccolò Dei Lapi Massimo D'Azeglio 1841 Italian Italian
15811 A Chronicle Of The Reign Of Charles Ix Prosper Mérimée 1829 French French
8645 The Abbot Sir Walter Scott 1820 Scottish English
6176 Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott 1821 British English
9118 Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley 1855 British English
7112 The Fortunes Of Nigel Sir Walter Scott 1822 Scottish English
17035 John Inglesant Joseph Henry Shorthouse 1881 British English
9493 The Maiden And Married Life Of Mary Powell Anne Manning 1850 British English
119 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
15811 Cinq Mars Alfred de Vigny 1826 French French
272 The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni 1827 Italian Italian
8656 Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas 1845 French French
14918 Ogniem I Mieczem Henryk Sienkiewicz 1884 Polish
7112 A Legend Of Montrose Sir Walter Scott 1819 Scottish English
7026 Woodstock Sir Walter Scott 1826 British English
3262 Old Mortality Sir Walter Scott 1816 Scottish English
15811 The Vicomte Of Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas 1847 French French
1198 Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore 1869 British English
977 The History Of Henry Esmond William Makepeace Thackeray 1852 British English
1775 Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott 1817 British English
17035 Dorothy Forster Walter Besant 1884 British English
1359 The Heart Of Midlothian Sir Walter Scott 1818 Scottish English
2897 Waverley Sir Walter Scott 1814 British English
1242 Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
3608 Redgauntlet Sir Walter Scott 1824 Scottish English
14154 Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens 1841 British English
192 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
13 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
15811 The Conscript Erckmann-Chatrian 1864 French French
15811 Waterloo Erckmann-Chatrian 1865 French French
17035 The Green Book Mór Jókai 2003 Hungarian Hungarian
17035 The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1898 British English
74 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 American English