Historical fiction
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Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictitious plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fictio
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) by Victor Hugo (1831), a 19th-century example of a romantic-historical novel
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, published 1869 and set 60 years before
The Fifth Queen, 1906–1908 by Ford Madox Ford, is written about the 16th century.
A painting by Jakub Różalski depicts an alternative history of the 1920s in Scythe, in which rural peasants must contend with giant mechanical walking tanks.
Alternate history
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Alternate history is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events happen differently than they did in reality.
Title page of the first Spanish-language translation of Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanch (originally in Catalan)
