Showing posts with label Historical Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical Fiction. Show all posts

A Farewell to Arms / Ernest Hemingway

Title: A Farewell to Arms
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Historical Fiction

A American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The book is about a love affair between Henry and Catherine Barkley during World War-1. One of the best novel from hemingway and can be read. 

Gone with the Wind / Margaret Mitchell

Title: Gone with the Wind
Author: Margaret Mitchell 
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Historical Fiction

Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers. Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. It was adapted into a film in 1939. Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War. It unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states initially, have declared their separation from the United States.

War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy

Title: War and Peace 
Author: Leo Tolstoy 
Translators: Louise and Aylmer Maude
Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Historical Fiction

According to Tolstoy War and Peace is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle. Large sections, are a philosophical discussion. It is history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact on Tsarist society through five Russian aristocratic families.

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