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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 ...
Most anticipated 2025 book releases While we look forward to the start of a fresh year, here are 15 new releases we have our eyes on across genres, including romantasy , literary fiction, memoir ...
3 December 1950: Writer The Malachite Box: Yustin Djanelidze Soviet Union: 1 August 1883: 14 January 1950: Doctor A case of the repair of an injury of the ascending aorta: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Soviet Union: 11 February 1887: 28 December 1950: Writer The New Gulliver: Andrey Kryachkov Soviet Union: 24 November 1876: 25 August 1950: Architect ...
Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. These attempts have been criticized for their ...
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1950 through 1959 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...
January 19 – Isaac Asimov's first full-length novel, Pebble in the Sky, is published in the United States by Doubleday. [1]January 26 – For the film noir Gun Crazy, released on this day in the United States, co-writer Dalton Trumbo is billed as Millard Kaufman, due to the former's inclusion on the Hollywood blacklist.
Disney owned the rights to adapt all of Baum's books except The Wizard of Oz, but this did not matter because by 1985 both The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz were in the public domain. The only element that Return to Oz used from the 1939 film was the ruby slippers – in the book, there were silver shoes. The ruby slippers had become so ...
Engineer and pilot Perry Nelson is killed in a car accident in 1939 and wakes up in another body in 2086. Heinlein could not find a publisher for this, his first book, written in 1938–39, during his lifetime. Many themes of his later writings are here in embryonic form. 2004–2005 Warcraft: War of the Ancients Trilogy: Richard A. Knaak