Henty: 420 books

Set in the mid-eighteenth century, With Wolfe in Canada follows young hero James Walsham as he leaves his native England and travels to Canada to fight alongside famed commander Major General James Wolfe in his campaigns against the French forces in and around Quebec.

As the Industrial Revolution began to take hold in England and across Europe, a contingent of workers banded together to protest the technological developments that threatened their livelihoods. That's the tumultuous backdrop against which young Yorkshire resident Ned Sankey enters adolescence, dealing with problems at school and family tragedy along the way.

The novel takes place in France during the latter part of the Thirty years' war--the time of Richelieu, of Mazarin and Anne of Austria. The hero is the orphan son of a Scotch officer in the French army.

The reconquest of the Soudan will ever be mentioned as one of the most difficult, and at the same time the most successful, enterprises ever undertaken. The task of carrying an army hundreds of miles across a waterless desert; conveying it up a great river, bristling with obstacles; defeating an enormously...

On the 20th of September, 1837, a lad was standing before Mr. M'Neill, the British minister at the Persian court. Both looked grave, for the interview was an important one. The former felt that it was the turning-point of his life, the opening of a fresh career, the introduction to a service in which...

The long and bloody feud between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy – which for many years devastated France, caused a prodigious destruction of life and property, and was not even relaxed in the presence of a common enemy – is very fully recorded in the pages of Monstrellet and other contemporary...

CEDAR GULCH was, in 1851, a flourishing camp. There had been some good finds by the first prospectors, and a rush had of course followed. In many cases first discoveries proved illusive, but it was not so at Cedar Gulch. The ground turned out well, and although no extraordinary finds were made, the...