G.A. Henty Books In Order
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A Search for a Secret | (1867) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The March to Magdala | (1868) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All But Lost Vol. I | (1869) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All But Lost Vol. II | (1869) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All But Lost Vol. III | (1869) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out on the Pampas | (1870) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Young Franc Tireurs | (1872) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The March to Coomassie | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Young Buglers | (1880) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Times of Peril | (1881) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Facing Death | (1882) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Winning His Spurs / The Boy Knight | (1882) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Friends Though Divided | (1883) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By Sheer Pluck | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Clive in India | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dragon and the Raven | (1885) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Freedom's Cause | (1885) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lion of the North | (1885) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Young Colonists | (1885) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For Name and Fame | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through the Fray | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bravest of the Brave | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Final Reckoning | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Wolfe in Canada | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Young Carthaginian | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bonnie Prince Charlie | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For the Temple | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gabriel Allen M.P. | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Reign of Terror | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Orange and Green | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sturdy and Strong | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Captain Bayley's Heir | (1889) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cat of Bubastes | (1889) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Curse of Carne's Hold | (1889) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By England's Aid | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By Pike and Dyke | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lion of Saint Mark | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Chapter of Adventures | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By Right of Conquest | (1891) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Hidden Foe | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dash for Khartoum | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Held Fast For England | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Redskin and Cow-Boy | (1893) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beric the Briton | (1893) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condemned as a Nihilist | (1893) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Greek Waters | (1893) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dorothy's Double | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One of the 28th | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through the Sikh War | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Jacobite Exile | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rujub, the Juggler | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Heart of the Rockies | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
St. Bartholomew's Eve | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Woman of the Commune | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wulf the Saxon | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Knight of the White Cross | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through Russian Snows | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At Agincourt | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cornet of Horse | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A March on London | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Queen's Cup | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Cochrane the Dauntless | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Frederick the Great | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At Aboukir and Acre | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Both Sides the Border | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Canyon | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jack Archer | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Heir | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Among Malay Pirates | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Won by the Sword | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Surrender! | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out With Garibaldi | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Roving Commission | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Saint George for England | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tiger of Mysore | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
True to the Old Flag | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Lee in Virginia | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Moore at Corunna | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At the Point of the Bayonet | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Irish Brigade | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Hawke's Fortune | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Buller In Natal | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Roberts to Pretoria | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Maori and Settler | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On the Irrawaddy | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Herat And Cabul | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under Drake's Flag | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When London Burned | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Kitchener in the Soudan | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With the British Legion | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through Three Campaigns | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Treasure of the Incas | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With the Allies to Pekin | (1904) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By Conduct and Courage | (1904) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Redskins and Colonists | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under Wellington's Command | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Young Midshipman | (1912) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Tale of the Western Plains | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through Afghan Passes | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Plague Ship | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Sovereign Reader | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales Of Daring And Danger | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Soldier's Daughter and Other Stories | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales Of Dreams And Dangers | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Hands of the Malays | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
G.A. Henty was an English author and a war correspondent. He is famously known for his historical adventure stories that were so popular in the late nineteenth century. Henty works include Freedom’s Clause (1885), Under Drake’s Flag (1883), For the Temple (1883), and The Dragon & The Raven (1886).
Henty was born in Trumpington, and his childhood was a tough one as he steadily became sick and spent extended periods of time in bed. During these low times in his life, Henty became an avid reader and developed a variety of interests most of which were transferred into adulthood. The author attended Westminster School and later joined Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge. He quit his university studies to join Army Hospital Commissariat, a voluntary job when the Crimean War began. While in the army, he was sent to Crimea, and while in the battlefield, he witnessed the harsh conditions the soldiers were subjected to during the war. Henty letters back home had vivid descriptions of what he had witnessed. His father was impressed by the letters that his son sent back home such that he forwarded them to The Morning Advertiser newspaper which published them. This success was what later motivated Henty to accept a job offer to become a special correspondent/war correspondent.
Before his resignation from the military in 1859, Henty married the love of his life, Elizabeth Finucane. The couple was blessed with four children. In 1865, Henty’s wife died after battling illness for long and immediately he began publishing articles for Standard Newspaper. In 1866, the Standard Newspaper hired him as their special correspondent to report on the Auster-Italian War.
Henty was an avid support of supporter of the British Empire. His ideas on politics were highly influenced by writers such as Thomas Carlyle and Sir Charles Dilke. The author stated in an interview that his storytelling skills were sharpened out of the bedtime stories told to his children after dinner. His first children book was published in 1870 and featured characters named after Henty’s children. Even though Henty wrote 122 children’s books, he also wrote non-fiction, adult novels, and short stories.
Henty’s children books mainly focused on the main character living in troubled times, such as American Civil War, Punic War, and the Napoleonic Wars. The author’s heroes who in most cases are young ladies- are courageous, intelligent, resourceful and honest and these four virtues have resulted into Henty’s novels becaming so popular amongst many homeschoolers and Christians in the modern world. Some of his novels are based on true events that he had witnessed himself, for instance, the Crimean War, and thus these books were written with extensive detail as Henty had first-hand experiences of the places, people, and events.
Henty died in 1902 aboard his boat in Weymouth, Dorset. His uncompleted novel By Conduct and Courage was finalized by his son, Captain C.G. Henty.
The Cat of Bubastes
In The Cat of Bubastes, we meet Rebu Prince Amuba, a fifteen-year-old prince and his fathers trusted advisor taken as slaves after his father’s kingdom is overthrown by the Egyptians, however getting into Egypt is just but the beginning of a very long adventure.
Jethro and Amuba are handed over to priest Ameres, a man who is educated and has a good heart. The priest welcomes them into his family as a companion rather than slaves, however, when a misfortune befalls Amere’s family after the family cat Pauces is killed by Chebron’s arrow. The cat was chosen to be the next cat of Bubastes. This tragedy forces Jethro and Amuba to take the lead and travel with their new friends, Ameres children to safety.
Will they be able to escape the vast territories of Egyptian emperor? Will Jethro and Amuba be able to see their home once again finally? This is an excellent story about the tales of ancient Egypt that will grab your attention from the first page to the last. The plot is quite intriguing, full of twists such that you will find yourself guessing what happens in the next few pages. The character development is quite amazing, and you will love how the author vividly gives descriptions of the main characters (Jethro and Amuba).
In Freedom’s Cause
In the late 13th century, the enslaved people of Scotland rebelled against their ruler, Edward Longshanks. This book provides the recounts of Scot’s desperate struggles in the face of ultimate danger- a series of battles waged under the leadership of Robert Bruce and William Wallace.
Time has indeed polished the achievements of these two heroes to mythic proportions, but the truth is that Bruce and Wallace were real people. In Freedom’s Cause gripping tale of loyalty, courage and brevity recount their actions within an accurate historical perspective. As a reader, you will join forces alongside protagonist, Archie Forbes, a young man whose estates have been illegally confiscated.
In Freedom’s Cause is one of the best historical books for young readers by one of the prolific authors of the 19th century. Henty is a storyteller who specialized in integrating real historical accounts with fantastic fictional characters.
Beric the Briton
This is the story of the life of young Briton, who has been kept hostage by the Romans for half a decade. He utilizes his time at the Roman authority to learn Roman history, Latin and military discipline, and tactics. He then uses this acquired knowledge during the Iceni revolt.
During this uprising, most of the Roman towns are overpowered, and the Iceni kill all the inhabitants, except Beric’s Roman Teacher and the daughter of his Roman host whom Beric had rescued from the city of Camelodunum before it was captured. The revolt fails, and Beric arranges for them to be restored to their liberty. Now with Beric and his people leading a campaign against the Roman influence, who will finally emerge the victor in this world of war?
Beric the Briton is a captivating, well-researched tale of a young warrior and the revolt of the warrior Queen Boudicca. The book presents accurate historical facts spiced up with fantastic fictional characters. Beric adventures are fun and wild; they will keep you hooked from the first chapter to the last.
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