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A 1782 French novel about the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two narcissistic rivals (and ex-lovers) who use seduction as a weapon to socially control and exploit others, all the while enjoying their cruel games and boasting about their talent for manipulation (also seen as depicting the corruption and depravity of the French ...
Unusually for modern fiction, it is written using the style of the letter game. Avi's young-adult novel Nothing but the Truth (1991) uses only documents, letters, and conversation transcripts. Last Words from Montmartre (1995) by Qiu Miaojin is a novel written in the form of twenty letters that can be read in any order.
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[1] [2] France ranks first on the list of Nobel Prizes in literature by country. One of the first known examples of French literature is the Song of Roland, the first major work in a series of poems known as, "chansons de geste". [3] The French language is a Romance language derived from Latin and heavily influenced principally by Celtic and ...
This section should lay out the writing styles employed by the author. For example, if the novel is an epistolary novel, there should be an explanation of that style and how it works specifically in the novel being discussed on the page. Also, any notable features of the writer's style should be spelled out.
Jules Verne (1828–1905), writer of techno-thrillers like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and founding father of science fiction; Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35 - 1901), novelist; Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870) Hector Malot (1830–1907) Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873), pioneer of modern detective fiction; Jules Vallès (1832-1885)
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...