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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Historical Fiction: Making a story from history
 
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FPyat
Jan 17, 2020
 I’ve found that it’s a bit spotty whether nineteenth century classics set decades in the author’s past are referred to as historical fiction. I guess for more pastoral settings, time period can be almost arbitrary apart from the absence of mentions of the railroad.

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FPyat
Jan 17, 2020
 Getting started on Patrick O’Brian is part of my new year’s resolution. Gravity’s Rainbow, too, is historical, though I don’t tend to see people apply the term to Pynchon.

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FPyat
Jan 17, 2020
 Asides from questions of factual veracity, is Haley’s Roots a good read?

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FPyat
Jan 17, 2020
 Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers is the only Old Testament historical (?) fiction I know of. Is there anything else?

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