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A historical novel is a fictional story set in a real time period in the past, blending imagined characters and events with actual historical facts and settings. These books matter because they make history engaging and memorable for readers while raising interesting questions about how we understand and interpret the past.
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Its subject is documented across 51 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- historical prose literature
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- Historical novels
- topic's main category
- Category:Historical novels
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Encyclopedic overview
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) by Victor Hugo (1831), a 19th-century example of a romantic-historical novel
Prose genres
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