文档介绍：A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales
A Guide to the Best
Historical Novels and Tales
Jonathan Nield

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A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales
"These historical novels have taught all men this truth, which looks
like a truism, and yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and
others, till so taught: that the bygone ages of the world were actually filled
by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and
abstractions of men."
--Carlyle on the Waverley novels.
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A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales
Contents
Introduction
Pre-Christian Era
First Century
Second Century
Third Century
Fourth Century
Fifth Century
Sixth Century
Seventh Century
Eighth Century
Ninth Century
Tenth Century
Eleventh Century
Twelfth Century
Thirteenth Century
Fourteenth Century
Fifteenth Century
Sixteenth Century
Seventeenth Century
Eighteenth Century
eenth Century
Supplementary List (Semi-Historical)
Suggested Courses of Reading (Juvenile)
Bibliography
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A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales
INTRODUCTION.
It is not proposed, in these preliminary remarks, to sketch in detail
the origin and growth of the Historical Novel; this has already been amply
done by Professor Saintsbury and others. I shall be content to approach
the subject on its general side, offering, at the same time, some critical
suggestions which will, I hope, not be without value to readers of
Romance.
But, first of all, I must explain how the List which follows came to be
compiled, and the object I have in offering it. For many years I have
been an assiduous reader of novels and tales in which the historical
element appeared, supplementing my own reading in this direction by a
careful study of all that I could find in the way of Criticism on such works
and their writers. Only in this way could I venture on a selection
involving a survey of several thousand volumes! With the above
understanding, I can say