author
S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
d. 1916
Best known for fast-moving historical romances, this Anglo-Indian writer brought a soldier’s and civil servant’s eye for action, hierarchy, and ambition to his fiction. His stories often mix adventure, intrigue, and old-world drama in a way that still feels lively today.
6 Audiobooks
The Chevalier d'Auriac
by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
A Galahad of the Creeks; The Widow Lamport
by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
Orrain: A Romance
by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
The Honour of Savelli: A Romance
by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
The traitor's way
by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
The Heart of Denise, and Other Tales
by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
About the author
Born around 1858, S. Levett-Yeats was the pen name of Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats, an English novelist with strong ties to British India. Before turning seriously to fiction, he served in the Indian Army and later worked in the Indian Civil Service, experiences that shaped the worldly, disciplined tone of much of his writing.
He became known for historical and adventure fiction, especially romances set in earlier centuries. Readers often associate his work with the swashbuckling tradition of late Victorian popular fiction, full of plots driven by honor, danger, rivalry, and sharp reversals of fortune.
Levett-Yeats died in 1916. Though he is not as widely remembered as some of his contemporaries, his novels remain of interest to readers who enjoy rediscovered historical adventures and the storytelling style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.