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G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
1832–1902
Best known for fast-moving historical adventures, this Victorian writer brought battles, voyages, and turning points from the past to life for generations of young readers. Before becoming hugely prolific, he also worked as a journalist and war correspondent, experiences that helped shape the vivid action in his fiction.
112 Audiobooks
The Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusades
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In Times of Peril: A Tale of India
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from Siberia
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The March to Magdala
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Out on the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
At Agincourt
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
St. George for England
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 3
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Out with Garibaldi: A story of the liberation of Italy
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A Girl of the Commune
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Facing Death; Or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit: A Tale of the Coal Mines
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
St. George for England: A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A March on London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Sturdy and Strong; Or, How George Andrews Made His Way
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Tales of Daring and Danger
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Lion of the North: A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Young Franc Tireurs, and Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Orange and Green: A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
To Herat and Cabul: A Story of the First Afghan War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Those Other Animals
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 2
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Roberts to Pretoria: A Tale of The South African War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Rujub, the Juggler
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Lost Heir
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In Freedom's Cause : A Story of Wallace and Bruce
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Moore at Corunna
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Queen's Cup
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Redskin and Cow-Boy: A Tale of the Western Plains
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The golden story book
by L. L. (Lucy L.) Weedon, Sheila Braine, May Byron, Evelyn Everett-Green, George Manville Fenn, Lilian Gask, G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, D. H. Parry
The Golden Canyon
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of George Alfred Henty
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
On the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A Soldier's Daughter, and Other Stories
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Dorothy's Double. Volume 1 (of 3)
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Through the Sikh War: A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjaub
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
By England's Aid; or, the Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604)
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
For Name and Fame; Or, Through Afghan Passes
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
By Conduct and Courage: A Story of the Days of Nelson
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Young Buglers
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Tales from the Works of G. A. Henty
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With Cochrane the Dauntless
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Dorothy's Double. Volume 2 (of 3)
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
With the British Legion: A Story of the Carlist Wars
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
About the author
George Alfred Henty was an English novelist, journalist, and war correspondent born near Cambridge in 1832. He is remembered above all for adventure and historical fiction written for young readers, with well-known titles including Under Drake's Flag, In Freedom's Cause, The Dragon & The Raven, and For the Temple.
His life reached beyond the writing desk. Sources consistently describe service connected with the Crimean War and later work as a special correspondent, and that first-hand experience of conflict and travel helped give his stories their brisk, report-like energy. Over the course of his career, he became extraordinarily prolific, producing a large body of fiction and nonfiction before his death in 1902.
Today, Henty's books are often noted both for their storytelling drive and for what they reveal about the attitudes of the British Empire in the late nineteenth century. That mix of adventure, history, and period perspective has kept him a recognizable name in classic boys' fiction and historical popular literature.