The Bridge of San Luis Rey
"The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder is a novel that explores themes such as destiny, death, and human connection. The story centers around the tragedy that occurs in 1714, when a rope bridge in...
Literature - Historical Novel
When the Eagle hunts
Third book in the series starring the Roman soldiers Cato and Macro.
“After the bloody conquest of Camulodumo, during the harsh winter of 44 A.D. the Roman army prepares to extend the invasion of...
Veiled in Smoke
Historical novel. The plot is set in Chicago during October 1871, in the context of the devastating Great Fire that devastated the city. The story follows Meg and Sylvie Townsend, two sisters who run the...
The Waverley Novels, 1. Weaverley
Sir Walter Scott published this first historical novel without much conviction — in fact he delivered it with a pseudonym — but it was a great success and marked the beginning of his fame. The novel follows...
Mary Barton
This first book by the writer Elisabeth Gaskell deals with the great social differences in the city of Manchester during the first half of the 19th century. It was a society in which there was no...
The Grand Sophy
Sophia's father has to travel to Brazil and leaves his daughter in charge with her sister in a large family and asks her to find her a husband. The months she lives there are chaotic because she wants to...
The Missing
In this book, Tim Gautreaux, as in The Next Step in the Dance or in Louisiana 1923, returns to show us characters who resemble him: French-speaking Cajun Southerners, Catholic, determined and compassionate...
Everything flows
"Everything Flows" tells the story of Ivan Griegorievich's return home after thirty years in prison camps under the tyrannical regime of Stalin, who has just died, in 1954.
The reunion with his...
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy
Dr. Watson tries to help a cash-strapped friend decipher a cryptic note that might lead to the end of his financial problems. The friend is a descendant of Sir Walter Raleigh, and the mysterious missive is...
The chosen
It describes the life of two 15-year-old friends during World War II in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brookling. Danny wants to be a rabbi like his father, and Reuven, a secularized Jew, wants to be a...