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  1. Apr 25, 2024 · What is historical fiction? As a rule of thumb, the historical fiction genre includes any story set more than fifty years in the past. It can include real people, fictional characters, or even a combination of both, living through actual events or time periods. Historical fiction shares similarities with contemporary fiction in terms of story ...

  2. May 10, 2024 · Like other novels, the historical novel is, fundamentally, simply a story, as a spy story is simply a story. Even with fiction featuring real figures, as is the case with much historical fiction, fiction is, by definition, a product of the imagination. It’s just fiction.

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  4. Apr 26, 2024 · Summary. The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne a child out of wedlock. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, arrives in New England very much alive and conceals his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on ...

    • Ronan Mcdonald
  5. May 7, 2024 · The Best of Translated Historical Fiction. You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer. In Enrigue’s reimagining of the conquistadors arrival in Tenochtitlan, things don’t go exactly as history had planned. Moctezuma lives in a mushroom induced haze and Hernán Cortés believes his translator Malinalli, a Nahua ...

  6. May 10, 2024 · A Tale of Two Cities, novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution.

    • Charles Dickens
    • 1842
  7. May 3, 2024 · Alternate history can be broadly classified under speculative fiction, encompassing genres like science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It's a literary genre that blends historical facts with speculative elements, resulting in an alternative reality.

  8. www.writersdigest.com › write-better-fiction › genreHistorical - Writer's Digest

    May 3, 2024 · Writing Fiction Based on a Real-Life Historical Figure. Author K.D. Alden discusses her process of writing "fiction" based on a real-life historical figure, including four tips for planning your own historical novel.

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