historical novel

noun

1. a novel within the genre of historical fiction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of historical novel¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

Based on the historical novel series “Ikusagami” by Shogo Imamura, the Meiji-era set “Last Samurai Standing” will involve 292 warriors assembled at a temple in Kyoto for a deadly game with a massive cash prize.

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Morgan Jerkins has given us something magnificent in her second novel, “Zeal“: a sweeping historical novel that plants itself firmly in the present tense of American reckoning.

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But how she created the enthralling historical novel “The Great Mann” is a story that owes as much to Lurie’s ability to reinvent herself as it does to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” the iconic 20th century critique of the American dream, which provided a touchstone for the novel.

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Penelope Fitzgerald is one of my favorite writers, so when I heard that Kane was writing a historical novel about Fitzgerald’s real trip to Mexico in 1952 to see about a potential inheritance from a silver mine, I stopped everything I was doing and requested a copy.

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L.A. author Lisa See explains how her historical novel about a doctor, ‘Lady Tan’s Circle of Women,’ was inspired by an antique bed in her family store.

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