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The 1810s: 1810–1819
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Napoleon invaded Russia with 600,000 men in 1812 and retreated with wreckage; exiled to Elba, he returned in 1815 and was finished at Waterloo. The same years gave us the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales in 1812 and Jane Austen's novels of English country life.
1812 in Russia and 1815 in Belgium ended twenty years of French war. Tolstoy's War and Peace follows Russian families through the 1812 invasion, and the film Waterloo restages the 1815 battle. Open the 1810s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
8 famous stories set in the 1810s
Live snapshot of the top 8 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-05). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.
Browse 102 books, 35 movies and 1 TV show set in the 1810s (1810–1819).
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Two hundred years ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children’s and Household Tales. Now, at a veritable fairy-tale moment—witness the popular television shows Grimm and Once Upon a Time and this…
Bright Star
In 1818 high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry she finds…
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monsterThis edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as…
War and Peace
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Waterloo
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba ending two decades of war Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the…
Seven Years to Sin
Nunca a rendição foi tão doce.Numa noite quente de verão, a apenas algumas horas do seu casamento, a discreta Lady Jessica Sheffield testemunhou uma cena da qual nunca irá recuperar. Vê o jovem Alistair Caufield numa…
War and Peace
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer…
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnipotent British Navy.Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become…
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