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Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to writing and selling historical fiction, discussing a variety of topics including the different types of historicals, research, plot and character development, the integration of fictional people into historical settings, editing, and finding an agent.
Author
Publisher
A & C Black
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 176 pages ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Historical fiction is a hugely popular genre of fiction providing fictional accounts or dramatizations of historical figures or events. This guide depicts 100 of the finest novels published in this sector with a further 500 recommendations.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches, returns with another riveting tale of family, witchcraft, and love that spans generations, set in Gilded Age New York and London. Harriet Bishop, descended from a long line of witches, uses magic to help women in need -- not only ordinary women, but also those with powers of their own. She must intervene when a distant cousin wields dangerous magic to change the lives of two unsuspecting young...
Author
Publisher
Blue River Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Historical fiction writers and historians are not the same. While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist sets readers directly in the past and shows them forward. The job of a historical fiction writer is to make readers feel the victories and defeats, joys and pains, as if they were there. James Alexander Thom guides aspiring writers through the creation of historical fiction. He includes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Libraries Unlimited
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xii, 152 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of popular historical fiction titles are described and categorized according to their underlying features and under topics not found in the library catalog, such as women with true grit, greatest war stories, royalty rules, and quick reads.
10) The art of joy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 684 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The tumultuous twentieth century, told through the life of a single extraordinary woman
Rejected by a series of publishers, abandoned in a chest for twenty years, Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy, survived a turbulent path to publication. It wasn't until 2005, when it was released in France, that this novel received the recognition it deserves. At last, Sapienza's remarkable book is available in English, in a brilliant translation...
Author
Publisher
Oryx Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xiv, 719 pages ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on World historical guide by Daniel D. McGarry and Sarah Harriman White published 1973 by Scarecrow Press. This title annotates 'more than 6000 works ... Primary arrangement is by areas of the world, and then by time periods within each area.'" Booklist.
12) Double standards
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1957
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the classical epic, glorifying the heroism of Charlemagne in the 778 battle between the Franks and the Moors.
The Song of Roland, as Dorothy Sayers remarks in the introduction to this fine translation, is 'the earliest, the most famous, and the greatest of those Old French epics which are called Songs of Deeds'. Writing around the end of the eleventh century, and recalling an actual disaster in 778, the anonymous poet describes in detail...
Author
Series
McKinley bibliographies volume 1
Publisher
McKinley Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1971
Edition
10th ed., new and rev.
Physical Desc
vii, 255 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
BDD Direct]
Pub. Date
1997, c1993
Physical Desc
239 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Heart of the Wilderness, young Kendra Marty goes to live with her grandfather after her parents die in a river accident. But what can a trapper living in the backwoods offer a small child? Will Kendra ever be ready to face the scary and confusing world far from the wilderness she loves?
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