Historical Fiction
Little Women
<p>Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.
$5.00
The Clansman
A historically significant but racist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr., presented with explicit contextual framing in this DotBooks edition.
$8.00
The Gilded Age
Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.
$8.50
Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.
$8.50
Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty
Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty by Rafael Sabatini.
$9.00
Catriona
Robert Louis Stevenson continues David Balfour’s adventures through kidnapping, legal peril, divided loyalties, romance, and Jacobite intrigue with wit and momentum.
$9.00
Benito Cereno
An American sea captain boards a distressed Spanish vessel and observes its enigmatic commander amid strange shipboard circumstances.
$6.50
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.
$7.50
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton’s great novel of New York society follows Lily Bart through wealth, scrutiny, desire, and social ruin with wit, elegance, and devastating precision.
$8.00
My Ántonia
Jim Burden recalls his childhood on the Nebraska prairie and his friendship with the Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda.
$8.00
O Pioneers!
The novel follows a Swedish immigrant family as they establish and maintain a farm on the Nebraska frontier in the late nineteenth century.
$7.50
The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas turns seventeenth-century Holland, political danger, and tulip fever into a fast-moving historical adventure.
$7.50
Queen Margot
A fast-moving historical novel of royal marriage, court intrigue, and sectarian conflict in sixteenth-century France.
$9.00
Mary Barton
Mary Barton portrays the struggles of a working-class family in 1840s industrial Manchester.
$8.00
North and South
A richly observed Victorian novel of industry, class, conscience, and slow-burning romance by Elizabeth Gaskell.
$8.50
Shirley
Shirley portrays two women navigating relationships and daily life in a Yorkshire mill town amid early nineteenth-century industrial unrest.
$8.50
Barnaby Rudge
Set in London during the Gordon Riots of 1780, the story centers on the simple-minded Barnaby and his mother.
$9.50
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo’s vast and humane masterpiece of justice, mercy, revolution, and the moral lives that unfold under historical pressure.
$13.50
The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr.'s stunning debut about enslaved queer love on a plantation.
$17.99
War and Peace
<p>Tolstoy&#x27;s sweeping saga captures the chaos of war and the quiet dramas of the heart, weaving together the lives of aristocrats, soldiers, and dreamers against the
$5.00
The Scarlet Letter
In the stark shadows of Puritan New England, Hester Prynne’s scarlet 'A' becomes a symbol of sin and resilience, a haunting meditation on guilt, identity, and the oppress
$5.00
A Tale of Two Cities
Against the backdrop of revolution, Dickens weaves a tale of love, sacrifice, and the shadow of the guillotine.
$5.00