Historical Fiction
| author: E.L. Doctorow, | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1976 c.1974 | publisher: Random House Trade Paperback | | content type: book | | description: Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap-pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P.
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| author: Eleanor Dark | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1980 c.1941 | publisher: Fontana | | content type: book | | description: The Timeless Land (1941) is a work of historical fiction by Eleanor Dark (1901–1985). The novel The Timeless Land is the first of The Timeless Land trilogy of novels about European settlement and exploration of Australia. The narrative is told from English and Aboriginal points of view. The novel begins with two Aboriginal men watching the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1788.
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| author: George Clare | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2002, c1980 | publisher: London : Pan | | content type: book | | description: On Saturday 26 February, 1938, seventeen-year-old Georg Klaar took his girlfriend Lisl to the first ball at the Konzerthaus. His family were proudly Austrian. They were also Jewish. Just two weeks later came the Anschluss. A family had been condemned to death by genocide.
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| author: Michael Chabon | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2005 | publisher: London : Harper Perennial | | content type: book | | description: It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist.
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