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A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield
"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.
Contents
Introduction
Pre-Christian Era
First Century
Second Century
Third Century