edgepedia

England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland

13 books

Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and GlendowerG. A. Henty · 1899A historical adventure novel by G. A. Henty, published in 1899, following a young English boy caught up in border warfare and the Welsh and Scottish uprisings against King Henry IV during the early fifteenth century.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
Forest Days: A Romance of Old TimesG. P. R. James · 1843A historical romance published in 1843, set in thirteenth-century England during the reign of Henry III. It depicts Robin Hood as an outlawed yeoman taking part in the struggle between the king and Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — CompleteEdward Bulwer Lytton · 1848An 1848 historical novel by Edward Bulwer Lytton portraying Harold, the last Saxon king of England, leading up to the Norman Invasion and ending at the Battle of Hastings, with fictional elements confined largely to Harold's private life.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
Hereward, the Last of the EnglishCharles Kingsley · 1866A historical novel by Charles Kingsley, published in 1866, following the adventures of the Anglo-Saxon hero Hereward, an outlaw and warrior who resists the Norman Conquest and leads English resistance from the fens around Ely.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
In Freedom's Cause : A Story of Wallace and BruceG. A. Henty · 1885This 1885 boys' historical novel by G. A. Henty follows young Archie Forbes of Glen Cairn, who trains in arms and seeks to reclaim his family's lost lands while joining William Wallace and Robert Bruce in Scotland's wars for independence from English rule.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
Ivanhoe: A RomanceWalter Scott · 1819A historical romance published in 1819, set in twelfth-century England during the reign of Richard I, contrasting the Saxons and their Norman conquerors. This edition includes Scott's introductory epistle explaining his turn from Scottish subjects to English ones.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
Men of IronHoward Pyle · 1891A historical novel for young readers set in England in the early 1400s, following young Myles Falworth, whose noble family is ruined after his father is wrongly caught up in a conspiracy against King Henry IV.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The BetrothedWalter Scott · 1825A historical novel by Walter Scott, published in 1825 as the first of his Tales of the Crusaders, dealing with a story occasioned by the crusading spirit rather than the Crusades themselves, including domestic confusions arising from knights' long absences in Palestine.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two RosesRobert Louis Stevenson · 1888A historical adventure novel set during the Wars of the Roses, following young Richard Shelton, ward of Sir Daniel Brackley, as rising conflict and the mysterious "black arrow" draw him into danger in fifteenth-century England.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King AlfredG. A. Henty · 1886A historical adventure novel for boys by G. A. Henty, set in the year 870 during the Danish invasions of England, following a young Saxon fugitive in the fen country and tracing the events of King Alfred's reign against the Norsemen.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's DayWalter Scott · 1828A historical novel by Walter Scott, first published in 1828, set in medieval Scotland and centered on events in Perth around St. Valentine's Day. This edition opens with a comic introductory frame in which a narrator recounts legends of Edinburgh's Holyrood Palace.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The Last of the Barons — CompleteEdward Bulwer Lytton · 1843An 1843 historical novel by Edward Bulwer Lytton set in the reign of Edward IV during the Wars of the Roses, centering on Richard Nevile, Earl of Warwick, the King-maker, and depicting the fall of the old feudal baronage and the rise of a new social order.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The outlaw of TornEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1914An adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1914, set in thirteenth-century England. It tells the story of Richard, the lost prince of England, whose life becomes the target of a vengeful master of fence humiliated by King Henry III.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية