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Synonyms for historical fiction
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of historical fiction
- As in roman a clef : noun novel disguising real people as characters
- Recently there has been a notable revival in historical fiction.
- Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter
- The world is filled with historical fiction; it is the cant and the sham of the hour.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Arthur Stirling » by Upton Sinclair
- Whatever may be said of the physical facts of this narrative, its mental facts, its tone and atmosphere, are historical fiction.
- Extract from : « Lincoln » by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
- Historical fiction and popular fancy delight in such contrasts.
- Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 174, February 26, 1853 » by Various
- The truth is that in my mind the story is nothing but a serious and even earnest attempt at a bit of historical fiction.
- Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
- In “Monte-Cristo” Dumas left the path of historical fiction for the romance of his own time.
- Extract from : « Rural Rides » by William Cobbett
- At any public library he can find a catalogue of historical fiction arranged according to centuries.
- Extract from : « Why Worry? » by George Lincoln Walton, M.D.
- Shortly after the marriage, Tolstoi began the composition of a leviathan in historical fiction, War and Peace.
- Extract from : « Essays on Russian Novelists » by William Lyon Phelps
- Like historical fiction, drama of the Southwest has been less dramatic than actuality and less realistic than real characters.
- Extract from : « Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest » by J. Frank Dobie
- Historical fiction dealing with early day Texas is, however, distinctly maturing.
- Extract from : « Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest » by J. Frank Dobie
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