Download The Prince and the Page by Charlotte Mary Yonge. A 1865 historical fiction, young and juvenile fiction work about family, faith, duty, character, moral formation and Victorian life. Available in PDF, EPUB, MOBI and AZW3 formats.
About The Prince and the Page
The Prince and the Page by Charlotte Mary Yonge is a 1865 historical novel for young and general readers, combining adventure, family feeling, moral trial, religious seriousness and carefully imagined period detail. Ideal for readers who enjoy Victorian historical fiction and character-led stories of courage, loyalty and conscience, it uses the past to explore duty, honour, faith and personal growth.
Genres: Historical Fiction | Young and Juvenile Fiction
Why Read The Prince and the Page?
The Prince and the Page is worth reading because it shows Charlotte Mary Yonge using historical fiction to join adventure, moral testing and religious seriousness. First published in 1865, the novel does not treat the past merely as costume or scenery. Instead, historical setting becomes a way to test loyalty, courage, obedience, family duty and personal conscience. Yonge's characters often face moments where honour and comfort cannot both be preserved.
Readers who enjoy Victorian historical fiction will appreciate the blend of story and instruction. Yonge writes for young and general readers, but she does not condescend to them. Her plots often involve danger, inheritance, captivity, conflict, divided loyalties or the claims of kinship. These situations create narrative energy while also giving the reader examples of conduct under pressure. Her Anglican imagination adds a strong sense that outward action should be judged by inward principle.
Modern readers should value The Prince and the Page both as fiction and as a record of how the nineteenth century imagined the past for educational purposes. Some attitudes and historical assumptions belong to Yonge's own time, but the central interests remain accessible: how people become brave, how loyalties are tested, and how young people learn to act rightly in a difficult world. For readers of public-domain historical fiction, the book offers character, atmosphere and a clear moral architecture.
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