Historical Stories

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is an epic novel set in early 19th-century Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.

A respectable bank clerk, lives a routine life until one day everything changes.

The novel follows the lives of two characters, both British men, whose fates cross as they serve their country in various conflicts.

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul.

A former convict is released after 19 years of hard labor. Rejected by society, he’s shown compassion by a bishop, which inspires him to change his life.

Set in 15th-century Paris, the novel follows the hunchbacked bell-ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, and his tragic connection to a beautiful Romani girl.

Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, the story follows Hester Prynne, who is publicly shamed for committing adultery and giving birth to a child named Pearl.

A World War I veteran who rents a modest house in West Egg and meets a wealthy man.

Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a collection of short stories.

An American lieutenant who witnesses World War I, and loves an English nurse.