Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
A doctor probes the mind of Grace Marks, convicted in a notorious Canadian murder case.
Victorian / Gilded Age · Mystery · Biographical
Victorian / Gilded Age · Biographical · ~1837–1901
Victorian / Gilded Age biographical historical fiction books
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An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris
Colonel Picquart unravels the Dreyfus Affair in this tense historical thriller (Walter Scott Prize 2014).
Victorian / Gilded Age · Mystery · Biographical
Samarkand
Amin Maalouf
In eleventh-century Persia a judge who might punish Omar Khayyam for his verses gives him a blank book instead, and the Rubaiyat crosses the Seljuk court, the vizier Nizam al-Mulk, and Hassan-i Sabbah’s fortress at Alamut. Amin Maalouf’s 1988 novel (English translation) is medieval biographical historical fiction of that manuscript, taken up again in the 1890s by an American who carries it toward the Titanic.
Medieval · Victorian / Gilded Age · Biographical · Literary
World Within
Jane Eagland
Children's fiction · Authors, fiction · Family life, fiction · Great britain, history, 19th century, fiction
Victorian / Gilded Age · Biographical · Open Library
Drood
Dan Simmons
Biographical Fiction · Charles Dickens · Detective · Fiction
Victorian / Gilded Age · Civil War · Mystery · Biographical · Open Library
Historical figures in nineteenth century fiction
Donald K. Hartman
American Biographical fiction · American Historical fiction · American Young adult fiction · American fiction
Victorian / Gilded Age · Biographical · Open Library
Victoriana
Cora Kaplan
Civilization · Criticism · English literature · Historiography
Victorian / Gilded Age · Late 20th century · Biographical · Open Library
Three days in Carthage
Shane R. Barker
Fiction · History · Mormons · Religion
Victorian / Gilded Age · Biographical · Open Library
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