A group of women have long been plotting a slave revolt on a Jamaican sugar plantation.

Okonkwo, an important member of the Igbo people, fails to adjust as his village is colonized by the British.

A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843.

The story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers.

The story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.

Adventure story set in nineteenth-century Calcutta against the backdrop of the Opium Wars.

A lesbian Victoriana suspense novel with pickpockets, orphans, grim prisons, and lunatic asylums.

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder.

General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life.

Two brothers rival for the hand of one woman during the Napoleonic Wars.

Adam Swann returns home in 1858 after service with Her Majesty's army in the Crimea and India, determined to build his fortune in the dog-eat-dog world of Victorian commerce.

The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name.

The tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets.

Charles Smithson, an amateur Victorian paleontologist, is engaged to Ernestina Freeman, a conventional, wealthy woman, but he breaks off the engagement after a series of clandestine trysts with the beautiful Sarah Woodruff, a social outcast known locally as the forsaken lover of a French lieutenant.

Dualta Duane battles against tyranny, struggling to survive the Irish Potato Famine.

In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, a composer bargains away his soul.

When Japan invades Korea and the queen is killed, Il-han takes his family into hiding. In the ensuing years, he and his family take part in the secret war against the Japanese occupation.

Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.

Paddy Cleary moves his wife and seven children to an Australian sheep station. It ends after World War II when the only survivor of the third generation sets a course of life and love halfway round the world from her roots.

A sensual and protected young woman from the West Indies is sold into marriage to the prideful, Englishman. Amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.

Set in England during Luddite revolts of 1811-12.

When conditions in a mining community deteriorate, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all.

What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel, and the manuscript still existed? More than a century later, the unexpected discovery of a diary represents Katya Kendall's last chance to save her struggling London publishing house.

A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere.

Published in 1833, when Sand was 29, it stunned Victorians by advocating the same standard of morality for men and women and by suggesting that both the prostitute and the married woman were slaves to male desire. Ordered

The story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last person to be executed in Iceland.

Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute yearns for escape to a better life. She ascends through the strata of Victorian society with a host of characters.

The stories of four Jewish women's lives in an imagined village in nineteenth century Poland.

An award-winning novel which explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo--the city that would become Tokyo--and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.

A young, deaf woman - is witnessed throwing a child into the River Clyde from the Old Bridge. Unable to communicate with their silent prisoner, the authorities move Jean to the decaying Edinburgh Tolbooth in order to prise the story from her. The High Court calls in Robert Kinniburgh, a talented teacher from the Deaf & Dumb Institution, in the hope that he will interpret for them and determine if Jean is fit for trial.