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Fifty Representative Historical Novels

Description: A list compiled by Jonathan Nield in 1903. Nield prepared several editions of "A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales" between 1902 and 1929. The original list can be seen here: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.49015000882895?urlappend=%3Bseq=155

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,662 members

373 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Quentin Durward

by Sir Walter Scott

802 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by George Eliot

1,455 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,816 members

117 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

14,199 members

177 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

6

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,757 members

456 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

21,374 members

251 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

8

28,924 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Sir Walter Scott

13,054 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

10

by R. D. Blackmore

3,332 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

11

Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas

2,905 members

41 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Alessandro Manzoni

3,142 members

51 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Sir Walter Scott

2,642 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Charles Dickens

2,560 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Sir Walter Scott

2,167 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Gustave Flaubert

1,869 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Last Days of Pompeii

by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

1,879 members

22 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

by Alexandre Dumas

1,650 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

19

The History of Henry Esmond

by William Makepeace Thackeray

1,369 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Sir Walter Scott

1,213 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Heart of Mid-Lothian

by Sir Walter Scott

1,081 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Sir Walter Scott

1,099 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Charles Kingsley

922 members

8 reviews

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Cloister and the Hearth

by Charles Reade

729 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Sir Walter Scott

631 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

Marius the Epicurean

by Walter Pater

611 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

With Fire and Sword

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

476 members

9 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Sir Walter Scott

419 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Charles Kingsley

236 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Sir Walter Scott

227 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Fortunes of Nigel

by Sir Walter Scott

202 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Sir Walter Scott

208 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings

by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

152 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX

by Prosper Mérimée

113 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Alfred de Vigny

108 members

2 reviews

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

Callista: A Tale of the Third Century

by John Henry Newman

124 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

A Legend of Montrose

by Sir Walter Scott

111 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

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38

The Last of the Barons

by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

107 members

1 review

½ 2.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

by Joseph Victor Scheffel

87 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Conscript: A Story of the French War of 1813

by Erckmann-Chatrian

77 members

1 review

3.8

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41

by Erckmann-Chatrian

67 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

42

John Inglesant : a romance

by J. H. Shorthouse

48 members

1 review

½ 3.3

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43

An Egyptian Princess

58 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Forest Lovers

by Maurice Hewlett

42 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Thomas Love Peacock

34 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Green Book; or, Freedom under the Snow

14 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Niccolò dei Lapi; or, The Last Days of the Florentine Republic

by Massimo D'Azeglio

10 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

by Edwin A. Abbott

7 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

The maiden & married life of Mary Powell, afterwards Mistress Milton

by Anne Manning

4 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

Dorothy Forster

by Walter Besant

2 members

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About This List

Started: NinieB
September 2020
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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