| The historical novel is a type of novel in which | | | | king Louis XIII. |
| characters are placed in a past time. The novelist | | | | Gone With the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell: |
| often tries to portray that era sensibly and | | | | Gone With the Wind (1936) written by Margaret |
| realistically in both spirit and fact. Let's see the | | | | Mitchell is a powerful historical novel set during the |
| development of historical novels in this article. | | | | American Civil War (1861-1865) and the |
| Waverley (1814): The First Major Historical Novel by | | | | Reconstruction time just after the war. It narrates |
| Walter Scott: | | | | the tale of Scarlett O'Hara, a Southern belle who |
| Waverley (1814) by Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott | | | | survives on her family's plantation, Tara. The story |
| is the first major historical novel. It revolves around | | | | revolves around Scarlett's infatuation with her |
| historical events in England, Scotland, and several | | | | neighbor Ashley Wilkes. |
| other regions of the world. | | | | Historical North America in the Novel: |
| Major Novels by Alexandre Dumas: | | | | Many historical novels feature the subject of |
| French novelist Alexandre Dumas wrote two historical | | | | Historical North America. American novelist Kenneth |
| novels. Le comte de Monte-Cristo (1844; The Count | | | | Roberts's In Northwest Passage (1937) examines the |
| of Monte Cristo) is about a man unjustly sent behind | | | | life of 18th-century American frontiersman Robert |
| bars. Les trios mousquetaires (1844; The Three | | | | Rogers. American writer Robert Penn Warren's World |
| Musketeers) is a tale of three swaggering | | | | Enough and Time (1947) is about political intrigues in |
| adventurers during the reign of 17th-century French | | | | Kentucky in the early 1800s. |