Historical Fiction

The Queen's Choice: Gripping, breathtaking, escapist historical fiction from the Sunday Times bestselling author

by Anne O'Brien

2015

A Sunday Times Bestseller ‘O’Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and political in this enjoyable, gripping tale.’ -The Times Her children or her crown…

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Scipio

by Ross Leckie

2020

The thrilling story of the greatest general in Roman history. In the name of Rome, Scipio Africanus conquered the hard-won empires of Carthage and of Alexander the Great. Now beset in his old age by the menacing political movements of Cato,…

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Biography and the Postmodern Historical Novel

by John F. Keener

2001

This book describes and evaluated the ever-intensifiying uneasiness felt by contemporary readers and critics when they confront real people in fictional texts. The book's range and depth of analysis is impressive. The fortunes of Dutch …

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Fictions of Culture

by Steven A. Taubeneck

1991

This volume has two related aims. The first is to honor Walter H. Sokel, one of the leading scholars and teachers in the study of German languages and literatures and a well-known figure in American academics in general. The second aim is t…

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Time and Place

by Alan R. Young

1991

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Galdos's Novel of the Historical Imagination

by Peter Bly

1983

The Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a prolific novelist, and ranks with Balzac and Dickens as a chronicler of nineteenth-century society. His 46 historical novels (the episodios nacionales) dealt with the major events of …

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