The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Walter Scott, first published in 1819. The story is set in England at the end of the 12th century, during the reign of King Richard I the Lionheart and immediately after the Third Crusade.
In Flaming inquisitors, three different love couples are shown "each of whom will have his own audience with his own love and his own idea". The novel is based on historical sources about the reign of King Stephen VI. and his son Ladislav IV. Kumana.