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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) became a Japanese citizen and was also known as Koizumi Yakumo. His books about Japanese life and culture became very popular in the West.

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) gained fame as the author of Rookwood, a novel about Dick Turpin. This is the third volume of his collection of historical romances.

Stanley V. Makower's Perdita is a fictionalized biography of actress Mary Robinson (1756-1800), a mistress of the Prince of Wales, among others.

Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) was a clergyman, journalist, historian, and adventure writer. Here he purports to transcribe the adventures of Lady Katharine Cinranald and Sir Hugh Richmond in pre-Restoration Scotland.

Jean Froissart (1337-1410) one of the most important chroniclers of medieval France. For centuries, Froissart's Chronicles have been recognized as the chief expression of the chivalric revival of the 14th century Kingdom of England and France and as one of the most important sources for the first half of the Hundred Years' War.

Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923) was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. His works include Earthwork Out of Tuscany (1895), Halfway House (1908) and many others.

Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) Red Gauntlet and Quentin Durward are two of his historical romances called The Waverley Novels, offered in this annotated volume.

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887-1949) was a Canadian historical, adventure fantasy, and science fiction writer who wrote over 100 novels and thousands of short stories in the pulp magazines of the early 20th century, earning himself the nickname the King of the Pulps. His works have appeared in a number of magazines, including Weird Tales, and continue to delight readers today with their smooth prose, exciting storylines, and believable characters.

Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty and wrote many stories of the old South, including several featuring Colonel Carter.

Leopold von Ranke was a pioneering 19th-century historian, widely regarded as the father of modern historical scholarship. His approach emphasized the importance of primary sources and objective analysis, moving away from the interpretive, moralistic histories of earlier times. Ranke's works, particularly on European political and religious history, introduced rigorous methodologies that transformed the study of history into a scientific discipline. His multi-volume studies on the Papacy, the Reformation, and various European states continue to be influential for their factual depth and methodological precision.

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) wrote these autobiographical works about his life in the French theater, A Life's Ambition, under the guise of being the memoirs of the fictional M. Gustave, and My Odyssey as himself.

This volume contains two of Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) works -- The Abbott, a sequel to The Monastery from The Benedictine Sources, is set in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots; and Woodstock is set just after the English Civil War and deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London in 1660.

Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (1892-1953) was known as the war poet of WWI, as this 1919 collection demonstrates. He was also an academic, journalist, literary critic, and science fiction writer.

Professor Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) held the first chair of Egyptology in the U.K. and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt. His most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele. This volume contains tales from the Fourth through the Twelfth Dynasties.

In addition to Royal Lovers and Mistresses, Angelo S. Rappoport also wrote The Curse of the Romanovs, Affairs of the Vatican or the Favorites of the Popes, and Mad Majesties. Dr. Rappoport also wrote les scandal-oriented historical works.

Volume 1 of a 1904 compilation of "prose and poetical" quotations self-described as "Choice extracts on History, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Literature, etc. Selected from the standard authors of ancient and modern time, classified according to subject."

Volume 4 of 4 of the memoirs written by the member of the Directorate: the Consulate-The Empire-The Restoration-Analytical Index