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Books in the Historical Fiction - Renaissance genre:

Barnaby Rudge (1841)

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An historical novel about the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780. Barnaby’s raven Grip inspired Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven. Read online at archive.org: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne
George Cattermole

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Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1886)

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When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Thorndyke Manor: A Tale of Jacobite Times (1890)

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A story of the ’15 in Scotland. The cover shown above is from the 1905 new edition.

Author(s): Mary C. Rowsell
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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A Modern Aladdin or the Wonderful Adventures of Oliver Munier (1892)

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The hero meets the 18th century polymath and adventurer the Comte de St.-Germaine. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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Catriona: A Sequel to “Kidnapped” Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad (1893)

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In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): None

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David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1893)

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In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): None

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David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1895)

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In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1895)

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When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq (1898)

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A romance of the early eighteenth century in Thackeray’s best style. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Martin Hyde the Duke’s Messenger (1910)

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Martin Hyde gets caught up in the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): T. C. Dugdale

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Kidnapped (1913)

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When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Westward Ho! (1920)

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Amyas Leigh sails from England with Francis Drake and becomes a freebooter or pirate in the Carribean. He later returns to England at the time of the Spanish Armada. The novel is blighted by it virulent anti-Catholicsm. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Charles Kingsley
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates (1921)

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A collection of Howard Pyle’s work dealing with pirates, both artistic and literary. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Et al
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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Kidnapped (1921)

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When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1924)

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In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Drake’s Quest (1927)

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The swashbuckling adventures of Sir Francis Drake.

Author(s): Cameron Rogers
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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The Splendid Spur (1927)

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A picaresque tale of English civil war.

Author(s): Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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En Garde! (1928)

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A rousing adventure novel set in seventeenth century France with plenty of sword play.

Author(s): Samuel Morse
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter
Aitken

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Hugh Gwyeth (1928)

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A romance of the English Civil War.

Author(s): Beulah Marie Dix
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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The Three Musketeers (1929)

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Charles de Batz de Castelmore d’Artagnan is on his way to Paris to seek his fortune as a member of the King’s Musketeers when he is assaulted and humiliated. On his arrival he almost at once manages to challenge three of the Musketeers, A... View More

Author(s): Alexandre Dumas
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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