In Paris with his parents to sell family heirlooms, fourteen-year-old Greg Rich suddenly finds himself four hundred years in the past, and is aided by boys who will one day be known as "The Three Musketeers.".
Various characters, including a waterman, an actor, a gallant, and an apple seller, from Shakespeare's London describe the Globe Theatre from their own perspective.
After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, a young Huguenot boy and his parents travel on a slave ship to West Africa, then to the Caribbean, and finally to New York, where they help found the town of New Rochelle.
Examines the history, culture, and society of Elizabethan England, and looks at the life and writings of William Shakespeare within the context of the time in which he lived.
Presents seventeenth-century author Daniel Defoe's fictionalized account of what it was like to live in London in 1665 when the city was in the grip of plague.
Original ed. published in 1722 under title: The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders. Follows the heroine's adventures from 17th century England to the American colonies.
Describes the religious conflicts, travel and communication, homes, food and drink, clothing, celebrations, scientific advances, and other aspects of life in seventeenth-century Europe.
