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Originally Posted by SL__72
Historical fiction has always been one of my favorite genre's in literature and film. Its even more fun if it is the fiction itself that is historical and not just it's subject. Or so I recently decided when I started reading Dickens.
Well if you want historical then Dickens' Great Expectations or Twain's Huckleberry Finn are pretty historical. Of course just about anything Henry James wrote and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote are pretty historical.
Stephen Crane if you want the Civil War period and it doesn't get any more historical than Jane Austen but somehow I see her more as a lady's read but now that I said that someone is bound to correct me.
If you want to explore Russian literature there's Tolstoy and War and Peace.
Steinbeck would be ok if you want to get a feel for the Great Depression.
Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls for the Spanish Civil War.