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Another Place-Another Time
Historical Fiction at the Boxford Town Libraries
Accordian Crimes by E. Annie Proulx
Nine connected stories follow an accordion and its various doomed owners from
1890 Sicily through New Orleans to an immigrant community in South Dakota.
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
As a promising apprentice, Michaelangelo works in the 15th & early 16th
centuries for the pope and paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Four generations in the life of an American family are revealed as retired
historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides to write his
grandparents’ history.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anna has beauty, wealth, a husband and an adored son. Why would she reject her
marriage to be with another man?
Beloved by Toni Morrison
After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the young daughter who she
killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years
before.
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
The first in her epic Earth’s Children series, set during the Ice Ages.
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
A fictionalized biography of John Brown (of Harper’s Ferry fame) as remembered
by his last surviving son, Owen.
The Coffee Trader by David Liss
Enter the world of coffee trading—a world of subterfuge, danger and repressed
longing.
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the ravages of the Civil War and back
home to his sweetheart, where they both confront the changed world they live in.
The Dante Club by Daniel Pearl
In 1865 Boston the literary geniuses of the Dante Club become involved in a
series of gruesome murders that are being committed in the style of Dante’s
“Inferno”.
Daughters of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The story of a young woman’s quest for love and fortune during the California
Gold Rush.
The Distant Lands by Julian Green
Force to leave England, Elizabeth arrives penniless at Dimwood Plantation and,
in what seems to be a land where nothing happens, she finds much tension under
the superficial politeness.
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
A recreation of the life of Tsu Hsi or, Orchid, the last Empress of the Manchu
Dynasty.
The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
An epic novel illustrating the beginning of the downfall of the Roman Republic.
Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
A prequel to his father’s novel (see below), this novel begins the story of the
lives, passions and careers of the Civil War’s great military leaders.
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The life and times of the Roman empire from Augustus to Claudius as told through
the dying Claudius is the subject of this classic piece of historical fiction.
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
With suspense and rich historic detail, this novel chronicles, in an entirely
new light, the brutal slayings of Czar Nicholas II and his family.
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
An insightful novel about free blacks who own slaves in antebellum Virginia.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Pulitzer Prize winning epic novel of the Old West.
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret
George
In this saga, Mary lives in luxury in France, but when she returns to Scotland
and then flees to England, she faces only hardship and unhappiness.
The Master by Colm Toibin
A fictional psychological portrait of the last two decades of Henry James’ life.
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, a man-o-war captain and his
surgeon/intelligence officer establish a friendship.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Brother William Baskerville must decipher the secret symbols and maze of Abbey
life to solve 7 murders wrought by a killer in seven days.
Pompeii by Robert Harris
Attilius, the new chief engineer of the Augustus Aqueduct, repairs damage to it
on the on the eve of one of the most famous natural disasters of all
time—Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga by Edward
Rutherfurd
Through interlocking stories of a memorable cast of characters, the reader sees
Ireland through the lens of its greatest city and experiences the major events
in Irish history.
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
An imaginative reconstruction of the life of Dinah, a character whose only
mention in the Bible is while being raped.
Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal
In this first volume in his American Saga, in which history is seen through the
life of one American family, a senator’s ambitions are defeated when FDR decides
to run for a third term.
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