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The first three books are tightly connected, dealing with the West's struggle to bring down the Empire, in which Rolf plays a vital role. The fourth novel is set much later. The first three books were substantially re-written and re-issued as an omnibus edition Empire of the East in 1979.
Dave Langford reviewed Empire of the East for White Dwarf #52, and stated that "Swashbuckling fun, routine plot, boldly unsubtle characters, clever technology-based magic: my only quibble is that according to Book 3's revelations, the atomic dreadnought unearthed in book 1 ought not to have worked." [2]
These are historical novels set in ancient Rome and the Roman Empire (753 BC–AD 476). There are sub-categories for some of the lands under Roman control where many novels are set, such as Roman Britain .
The Empire Trilogy is a collaborative trilogy of political fantasy novels by American writers Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts, set in the fictional world of Kelewan. It is the second trilogy in Feist's The Riftwar Cycle .
Hollywood is the fifth historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. [1] Published in 1990, it brings back the fictional Caroline Sanford, Blaise Sanford and James Burden Day and the real Theodore Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst from Empire (the fourth novel in the series).
Peter Canon of Publishers Weekly said that this volume of Turtledove's saga "may be the strongest and most compelling since the opener". [3] Roland Green reviewing for Booklist agreed that this was the most powerful volume in the series describing the novel as "busy, to be sure, but almost impossible to praise too highly".
R. C. Majumdar, India and South-East Asia, I.S.P.Q.S. History and Archaeology Series Vol. 6, 1979, ISBN 81-7018-046-5. R. C. Majumdar, History of the Hindu Colonization and Hindu Culture in South-East Asia; Ancient Indian colonisation in South-East Asia; Hindu Colonies in the Far East, Calcutta, 1944, ISBN 99910-0-001-1; DaigorÅ Chihara (1996).
In 2002, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel Empire Falls. [1] Several of his works have been adapted into television series and movies. He is known for his realistic depictions of rural , small-town life in the Northeastern United States , particularly in Maine , Pennsylvania , and Russo's native Upstate New York .