Best Books for History Students and Historians

From historiography to historical fiction — books illuminating how we know the past.

Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock
Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens
The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
Das Ende einer Affäre by Graham Greene
La mala hora by Gabriel García Márquez
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim
The well-beloved by Thomas Hardy
La Femme de trente ans by Honoré de Balzac
Hyperion, illustr. from drawings by B. Foster by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Far Country by Nevil Shute
A Duet with an Occasional Chorus by Arthur Conan Doyle

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