historical novel

noun

Origin of historical novel

First recorded in 1820–30

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By all appearances, Facebook had spurned his perfectly reputable historical novel simply because it was released by a right-wing publisher.
Did Facebook ‘cancel Abe Lincoln’? The truth is complicated — and alarming. | Ron Charles | March 4, 2021 | Washington Post
It all started last fall when Republic published “Old Abe,” a historical novel by John Cribb about President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
Did Facebook ‘cancel Abe Lincoln’? The truth is complicated — and alarming. | Ron Charles | March 4, 2021 | Washington Post
But I think he felt very at home with the historical novel, very at home with biography, too.
Murder, Sex, and the Writing Life: Norman Mailer’s Biography | Ronald K. Fried | November 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Unless Inferno is a historical novel, set circa 2000, then Googling oneself cannot be considered as a “new pastime.”
Fact-Checking Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’: 10 Mistakes, False Statements, and Oversimplifications | Noah Charney | May 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Going back a few wars, our leaders sent the mob after the Nazis, the subject of my new historical novel, The Devil Himself.
The Real Inglorious Bastards | Eric Dezenhall | July 19, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

Question: How far a historical novel should be wholly episodic?
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lay, a rhyming romance; Waverley an historical novel; what, it may be asked, is so very remarkable about their origins?
Sir Walter Scott | William Paton Ker
Spektor has also begun a historical novel dealing on the life of the founder of the sects of the Khassidim.
The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century | Leo Wiener
It is a historical novel, but the chief interest, as always in Sudermann, is psychological.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon Phelps
The book was a novel—a jumbo-size historical novel, of some seven or eight hundred pages.
Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr

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