Genre Information At the Circulating Library

Genre: Historical Novel: Classical

Description: The following novels are set in Classical times or depict figures from Classical history.

  1. Edward Bulwer Lytton.  The Last Days of Pompeii.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1834.
  2. Edward Bulwer Lytton.  Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes.  3 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1835.
  3. Annie Webb.  Julamerk: A Tale of the Nestorians.  3 vol.  London: R. York Clark, 1849.
  4. Annie Webb.  The Martyrs of Carthage: A Tale of Times of Old.  2 vol.  London: Bentley, 1850.
  5. James Nisbet.  The Siege of Damascus: A Historical Romance.  3 vol.  London: Hyde, 1851.
  6. Capt. Edmund Spencer.  Constantine: or, The Last Days of an Empire. An Historical Romance.  2 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1855.
  7. Rev. John H. Hamilton.  Philo: A Romance of Life in the First Century.  3 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1867.
  8. Henry Sneyd.  Cyllene: or, The Fall of Paganism. A Classical Tale.  2 vol.  London: Longman, 1873.
  9. Walter Pater.  Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas.  2 vol.  London: Macmillan, 1885.
  10. John Bradshaw.  Raphael Ben Isaac: A Tale of 20 A.D..  2 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1887.
  11. Benjamin W. Richardson.  Son of a Star: Romance of the Second Century.  3 vol.  London: Longman, 1888.
  12. Hugh Farrie.  Acte: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1890.
  13. Marie Corelli.  Barabbas: A Dream of the World's Tragedy.  3 vol.  London: Methuen, 1893.

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