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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 ...
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Iliad and Odyssey, the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects, the History of ...
Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.. The English novel is an important part of English literature.This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland (or any part of Ireland before 1922).
Caballero: A Historical Novel, often known only as Caballero, is a historical romance novel coauthored by Jovita González [1] and Margaret Eimer (under the pseudonym Eve Raleigh). [2] Written in the 1930s and early 1940s, but not published until 1996, [ 3 ] the novel is sometimes called Texas 's Gone with the Wind .
Though vanity published and little noticed in its time, the book has since become a favorite of fans of constrained writing and is a sought-after rarity among some book collectors. The first edition carries on title page and cover the subtitle A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E" (with the variant 50,000 Word Novel Without ...
A list of the ten best graphic novels of the period was subsequently published as a supplement to the list. [3] Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons appears on both the 100 Best Novels and 10 Best Graphic Novels lists, giving the combined lists a total of 109 entries.