Best 18th Century Novels - April 2024

America's First Daughter: A Novel

THE NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLERIn a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph--a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.From her earliest days, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, she becomes his hel... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062347268
• ASIN: 0062347268
• ISBN: 0062347268
• Brand: William Morrow Co
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

The King's Mercy: A Novel

For readers of Sara Donati and Diana Gabaldon, this epic historical romance tells of fateful love between an indentured Scotsman and a daughter of the 18th century colonial south.When captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the king's mercy--exile to the Colony of North Carolina--he's indentured to Englishman Edmund Carey as a blacksmith. Against his will Alex is drawn into the struggles of Carey's slaves--and those of his stepdaughter, Joanna Carey. A mistress with a servant's heart, Joanna is expected to wed her father's overseer, Phineas Reeves, but finds herself drawn instead to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1601429967
• ASIN: 1601429967
• ISBN: 1601429967
• Brand: WaterBrook Press
• Manufacturer: WaterBrook

Outlander

• ASIN: 0440212561
• ASIN: 0440212561
• ISBN: 0440212561
• Manufacturer: Dell

The Book of Night Women

From the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594484368
• ASIN: 1594484368
• ISBN: 1594484368
• Brand: Brand: Riverhead
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Voyager (Outlander, Book 3)

• ASIN: B000FC2L1E
• ASIN: B000FC2L1E
• Manufacturer: Dell

The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary studies: his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.

• ASIN: 0520230698
• ASIN: 0520230698
• ISBN: 0520230698
• Manufacturer: University of California Press

The Book of Speculation: A Novel

• ASIN: B00QQ450BI
• ASIN: B00QQ450BI
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew

A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-SemitismJoseph Süss Oppenheimer―"Jew Süss"―is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Württemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Württemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned him to death for unspecified "misdeeds." On February 4, 1738, Oppenheimer was hanged in front of a large crowd just outside Stuttgart. He is most... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691172323
• ASIN: 0691172323
• ISBN: 0691172323
• Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

The Ragged Edge of Night

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, and The Nightingale comes an emotionally gripping, beautifully written historical novel about extraordinary hope, redemption, and one man’s search for light during the darkest times of World War II.Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage—in name only—to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too—atonement for failing to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078JG8M8P
• ASIN: B078JG8M8P
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Place Called Freedom

• ASIN: 0449225151
• ASIN: 0449225151
• ISBN: 9780449225158
• Brand: Follett, Ken
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Henry James : Novels 1886-1890: The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse (Library of America)

The three novels in this Library of America volume from Henry James’s middle period explore some historical and social dilemmas that belong as much to our time as to his own. The Princess Casamassima was published in 1886, a year that saw riots of the unemployed in London. It is a political novel in which anarchists and terrorists conspire within a fin de siècle world of opulence and glamour. The action ranges from palaces to slums, from London to Paris to Venice and back again. The novel’s hero, Hyacinth Robinson, is torn between his loyalty to revolutionary causes—for which he is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0940450569
• ASIN: 0940450569
• ISBN: 0940450569
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

• ASIN: B006C3Q6GG
• ASIN: B006C3Q6GG
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts

Now in paperback, the incredible true story of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them.This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Sydney Cove a year later. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined for New South Wales to provide its hordes of lonely men with both sexual favors and progeny. But the story of their voyage is even more incredible, and here it is expertly told by a histo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0786886749
• ASIN: 0786886749
• ISBN: 0786886749
• Brand: Brand: Hyperion
• Manufacturer: Hachette Books

The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeThe Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel."   Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375752498
• ASIN: 0375752498
• ISBN: 0375752498
• Brand: Butler, Samuel
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

The Anatomist's Apprentice (Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mystery)

In the first in a stunning new mystery series set in eighteenth-century England, Tessa Harris introduces Dr. Thomas Silkstone, anatomist and pioneering forensic detective. . .The death of Sir Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. Few mourn the dissolute young man--except his sister, the beautiful Lady Lydia Farrell. When her husband comes under suspicion of murder, she seeks expert help from Dr. Thomas Silkstone, a young anatomist from Philadelphia. Thomas arrived in England to study under its foremost surgeon, where his ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0758266987
• ASIN: 0758266987
• ISBN: 9780758266989
• Manufacturer: Kensington

The Best American Noir of the Century

A treasure trove of a hundred years’ worth of the finest noir writing selected by James

• UPC: 15699312

The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century - eBook

Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space—and on the frontiers of the human mind.Science fiction’s finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming

• UPC: 967602528
• Rating: 3.0

Hung Lou Meng or The Dream of the Red Chamber, 18th century Chinese novel - eBook

According to Wikipedia: "Dream of the Red Chamber (also Red Chamber Dream, Hung Lou Meng or A Dream of Red Mansions), originally The Story of the Stone (literally "Record of the Rock"), is a masterpiece

• UPC: 779291426

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century : Stories

Presents a collection of "what if" stories that offer an alternate version of actual historical events in an anthology with works by Kim Stanley Robinson, Greg Bear, Ward Moore, Gregory Benford, and Susan

• UPC: 1265661
• Rating: 4.0

Silas Marner : Love and Human Redemption in 18th Century England (Aziloth Books)

Silas Marner

• UPC: 498129704
• Rating: 3.865

Masterpieces : The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

Representing the finest science fiction tales of the past century, this imaginative anthology includes both classic and contemporary works by Anne McCaffrey, Octavia E. Butler, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, Robert

• UPC: 2413102
• Rating: 4.333

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century - eBook

LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PASTH. G. Wells’s seminal short story “The Time Machine,” published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction’s time travel explosion. Responding to their own

• UPC: 708674131
• Rating: 5.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection - eBook

This edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction collects twenty-five of the finest works of speculative fiction to see print in 1990, stories from the genre's every edge, and from its heart.Among the many marvels

• UPC: 474480154
• Rating: 4.0

Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century

An anthology of military science fiction that includes Arthur C. Clarke's "Superiority", Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonrider", and David Drake's

• UPC: 1155119
• Rating: 3.0

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century : Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Finney, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, Connie Willis, and more

Time travel is the theme of an innovative science fiction anthology that brings together works by some of the finest authors in the field, including "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke's

• UPC: 3280598
• Rating: 5.0

To the Better End by Marcus Palliser

• UPC: 153604338378
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 3 USD

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte - The World's Best Reading- Hardcover- Used

• UPC: 383406697106
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 4 USD