Some of these authors are well-known for their oeuvre of historical fiction, so looking their names up in the library catalog is a good way to continue the search for great middle grade historical fiction books! MY LATEST VIDEOS (Note: this post contains affiliate links that earn from qualify...
The author argues that Smith heavily influenced the ways in which Porter conceived of the interrelations of domestic and military registers in her groundbreaking historical fiction, shaping her understandings of men, women, authorship and heroism in wartime....
The Four Great Classical Novels, or the Four Major Classical Novels (Chinese: 四大名著) of Chinese literature, are the four novels commonly regarded by scholars to be the greatest and most influential of pre-modern Chinese fiction. Dating from the Ming and Qing dynasties, they are not to be ...
The Boston Globe:“These recordings are powerful….Aside from their historical importance they are glorious to listen to.” AudioFile Magazine:“What a treasure it is to have some of modern literature’s best authors reading from their most renowned works.” ...
Sci-fi movies are usually set in an alternative reality or a distant future, but some great movies take inspiration from historical periods.
character. Authors of historical fiction spend hours carefully researching the historical periods they write about, lending authenticity to their works. Another popular branch of historical fiction is alternative history, which explores what might have happened if famous historical events had turned out ...
Yu. Rereading The Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chambe... John,Minford - 《China Review International》 被引量: 13发表: 1999年 Identity Construction and Reconstruction: Naming and Manchu Ethnicity in Northeast China, 1749–1909 The authors reconstruct processes of...
While most believers do agree that some parts of the books are likely exaggerated or simple fiction, such as Polo being governor, they note that this doesn’t mean the rest of the book is untrue. It would not be uncommon for a traveler to exaggerate or embellish his adventures and it wou...
I was sold… It was unforgettable, strong, and vivid. This book might actually be among the first historical fiction books written by a person of African descent on one of the ancient African kingdoms spanning several decades. Set in the18thcentury, it followed the life of Dousika Traore, ...
One of the most popular and prolific fantasy, science fiction and graphic novel authors of the late 20th and early 21st century, Neil Gaiman was the award-winning creator of "The Sandman" series, Good Omens (1990), American Gods (2001), Coraline (2005) and The Graveyard Book (2008), man...