5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Charles Dickens's 1859 novel about the French Revolution, concluding with Sydney Carton's self-sacrifice.
British historical novelist who wrote the Emperor series (Julius Caesar) and the Conqueror series (Genghis Khan) — among the best-selling historical fiction writers — known for dramatic, accurate-in-spirit accounts of historical military campaigns.
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-French novelist and the first woman elected to the Académie française, best known for 'Memoirs of Hadrian' and her essay on Piranesi.
A 1953 novel by L. P. Hartley narrated by an old man remembering one Edwardian summer when, as a boy, he unwittingly acted as messenger between a noblewoman and her farmer lover.
Laurent Binet's alternate history novel imagining that the Aztec and Inca empires, having survived initial European contact, ultimately invade and conquer a weakened Europe.