A Guide to Historical Fiction (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Guide to Historical Fiction The original germ of what has grown into a sort of atlas of historical fiction was an appendix to A Guide to the Best Fiction, published in 1903, really forming a chronological index to such novels included in the general list as were concerned with past times. The appendix then became the nucleus of a more comprehensive guide to this kind of fiction, which was published in two volumes as History in Fiction, in 1908. Of this last the present book is to some extent a new edition; but it is also a good deal more, the work of preparing a much amplified edition of the Guide to the Best Fiction having brought to light a great number of historical stories that had escaped notice. It may perhaps form a useful companion to the new Guide published six months ago. Both are select lists, the standard of selection in the one being determined by literary considerations, and in the other by the extent to which a story illustrates any given period of history. Thus, although many books appear in both, the two works do not really overlap, their aims being widely different. The whole arrangement of this, the descriptive notes, and the indexing are designed for the particular benefit of the teacher and student of history, and for the reader interested in history who has not time or inclination to study the more serious historians. The word "historical" has been given a wide interpretation, so as to embrace stories that in any way whatsoever portray the life of the past, even though actual persons and actual public events have no place in them. It includes some books, like the Sagas, the story of Fulk Fitz Warine, and the romance of the Cid, which belong to the stage when history and romance were not clearly differentiated, and stories in which imagination worked freely upon tradition were given to the world as authentic records. It includes others, like Defoe´s pseudo-histories, which come on the border-line in another way. The inclusion of Fielding´s, Jane Austen´s, and George Eliot´s novels, and other contemporary or nearly contemporary portrayals of life and manners, requires no defence: these are, of course, the finest histories of society available for the periods to which they belong, and the student who neglects them will have a very lifeless and imperfect knowledge of his subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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