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historical novel

noun

  1. a novel within the genre of historical fiction.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of historical novel1

First recorded in 1820–30

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Example Sentences

But I think he felt very at home with the historical novel, very at home with biography, too.

Unless Inferno is a historical novel, set circa 2000, then Googling oneself cannot be considered as a “new pastime.”

Going back a few wars, our leaders sent the mob after the Nazis, the subject of my new historical novel, The Devil Himself.

Question: How far a Historical Novel should be wholly episodic?

The Lay, a rhyming romance; Waverley an historical novel; what, it may be asked, is so very remarkable about their origins?

Spektor has also begun a historical novel dealing on the life of the founder of the sects of the Khassidim.

It is a historical novel, but the chief interest, as always in Sudermann, is psychological.

The book was a novel—a jumbo-size historical novel, of some seven or eight hundred pages.

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