Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies
from The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Tag: historical-fiction paris movies 1930s
Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?
Jerome CharynTag: historical-fiction emily-dickinson novel
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Louis L'AmourTag: reading books history historical-fiction
And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood
J. Tyson-CapperTag: historical-fiction hodburn
All malice, real and imagined, Ralegh's and the KIng's, will die upon the instant stroke of an axe. Be buried with him. His faith, then? Whatever remains will be parted. Some will go with the head and some with the headless body. Let them look for each other on Judgment Day. Perhaps on that day, in the haste of it, the bodies of traitors will have to settle for heads other than their own. Some inevitable mismatching of villians and rogues will take place. And one fine bony fellow will spy his skull upon another's body. Then another. And then maybe we shall be witness to the brawl and battle of the bones...
George GarrettTag: historical-fiction
I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.
Nancy B. BrewerTag: historical-fiction civil-war historical-romance
Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end.
Nancy B. BrewerTag: historical-fiction civil-war historical-romance
I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what they might see in the future
Nancy B. BrewerTag: historical-fiction historical-romance-fiction
You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
Eloise Jarvis McGrawTag: historical-fiction egypt ya-fiction
Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn
Jo Ann ButlerTag: historical-fiction biography natural-history
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