Historical novel

Holmes are the lead characters of the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series of detective thriller novels by Laurie R. King. The two characters made their first appearance in the debut novel of the series The Bookkeepers’ Apprentice that was first published in 1994. Mary Russell is a young woman who stumbles into the legendary Sherlock Holmes in 1915 to start a brilliant mystery series. The series of novels begins in 1915 with the world famous detective Holmes enjoying his retirement and farming…

loses the ruling of his country. In the novel, both boys are feeling ashamed. Amir tried to avoid being with his half-brother Hansen because looking at him would remind him of the evil mistake he made during the kite festival. They find out the secret that Baba is Hanson birth father. Both boys could feel a bond between each other, and even though Hansen is still mad at Amir for letting that boy raped him, he won’t harm Amir. For example, When the two…

for the novel single hardly inaugurated a new genre; one of suspense and mystery. His innovative use of the novel as a historical citation with multiple narrators showed his literary prowess and vision as a writer. The Moonstone remains the archetypal mystery story, for Collins expanded the detective fiction genre with great strides in narration and plot details, which have now become paramount in any mystery thriller. Following its publication, The Moonstone…

Abstract: Most of the novels written after the publication of Midnight’s Children deals with the aspect which focuses on national history cutting across personal narratives. Most of the writers are deracinated from their roots: familial, cultural, national, religious and linguistics and therefore use polyphonic form to explore their past. It comes as no surprise to find that Amitav Ghosh is a writer concerned with India’s place in larger international cultural networks, whose fiction seems…

specifically, its colonial and imperial discourse. Besides, his novels are interested in the study of Eastern cultural traditions and history, particularly those of India and Pakistan. As a postcolonialist writer, Rushdie attempts to deconstruct the colonial historical account of the colonizer and subvert it through the creation of another explanations and accounts. The inclusion of historical intertexts into the body of the novels allows him to subvert the incorporated events and personages and…

• The first genre of this fiction is Historical Fiction. According to Sweetland (retrieved 2017), Historical fiction is type of story that based on a real life historical events and also set in proper historical time and place. Sweetland (retrieved 2017) also said that the character that become a main character in the story may have never existed in real life all along, but they may be included to give a better storyline for the fiction. A good historical fiction is a story that balances the…

writing their piece. When the purpose has been declared, the writer elucidates their goal throughout the entire novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Timothy Findley use purpose to inform the reader about previous events. For instance, in a historical drama novel, the author writes about past events and incorporates them to fit the everyday life of the characters. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald conveys that although individuals are living the American Dream,…

communist agent, who is conflicted about his own views on events. In the beginning of the novel, the narrator explains that he is being held as a prisoner and is being forced to write a letter of confession for the edict. A clash of thoughts, a sequence of dualities. Born and raised in Vietnam, he is a Vietnamese spy in South Vietnam serving their officials. Nguyen is a Vietnamese born novelist, who had his first novel The Sympathizer published in 2015, which granted him 7 awards, including the…

Many authors use these memories as inspiration for their writing. The historical accounts in Tim O’brien’s, The Things They Carried, come with some truths, but are mostly derived from what he believed would have happened. Although O’Brien himself did not witness the things he wrote about in his novel, he still is able to portray the struggles many soldiers went through. While reading The Things They Carried through the historical lens and examining the novel’s accuracy to events of the Vietnam…

Catastrophist" by Patricia Coughlan. This article was chosen because it covered the topics we were interested in as a group. Ariel focused on colonial theory in the novel, Caitriona focused on comparing the Congo to the Irish Troubles and my focus was on the representation of decolonization and injustice in the novel. Bennett’s novel make use of allegory and parallels in dealing with political issues. The Catastrophist, deals with the Belgian Congo on the eve of independence while also…