Literature - Historical Novel

The White Earth

His father dead by fire and his mother plagued by demons of her own, William is cast upon the charity of his unknown uncle - an embittered old man encamped in the ruins of a once great station homestead,...

The Retreat

All the evils and horrors of war, the brutalities of the soldiers, the men who seem to live only for fighting: this is the theme present in the author's war books: La Bataille, Il neigeait...

The Evening and the Morning

Prequel to the famous The Pillars of the Earth, the story is set in 997 A.D. on the coast of England. Edgard and his family, shipbuilders, survive a Viking attack, but they will have to start from...

The silk weaver

England, 1760. Anne, the young daughter of an Anglican priest, moves from her village to London with relatives to educate herself as a lady and to find a husband. But she has more concerns than common women...

Slave and Master

The short novel presents the reader with the reflections of an enslaved man and his (former) master after the 1795 slave uprising on the former Dutch colony of Curaçao.  In turns, and in often poetical...

The guarani

A historical novel, the first major success of the author. Writing in the romantic period (and following the style of the authors of this trend at the time), this novel looks for the origins of what Brazil...

Teutoburgo

It is a historical novel about the battle of Teutoburg (9 AD), one of the main defeats suffered by the Roman Empire, and which led Augustus to fix the northern border of the Empire on the Rhine. The...

Marcus

Sequel of Junia, a novel about the first Christians, written by the same author. The protagonist is Marcus, Junia's brother, who returns to Rome from Alexandria shortly after the martyrdom of his...