#historical novel

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Petronius, in his dying letter to Nero:

"[...] Do not suppose, I pray, that I am offended because thou didst kill thy mother, thy wife, and thy brother; that thou didst burn Eome and send to Erebus all the honest men in thy dominions. No, grandson of Chronos. Death is the inheritance of man; from thee other deeds could not have been expected. But to destroy one's ear for whole years with thy poetry, to see thy belly of a Domitius on slim legs whirled about in a Pyrrhic dance; to hear thy music, thy declamation, thy doggerel verses, wretched poet of the suburbs, — is a thing surpassing my power, and it has roused in me the wish to die. Eome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling. Farewell, but make no music; commit murder, but write no verses; poison people, but dance not; be an incendiary, but play not on a cithara. This is the wish and the last friendly counsel sent thee by the — Arbiter Elegantiae."

— Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, 1895–96

#henryk sienkiewicz #quo vadis #literature #classic literature #polish literature #historical novel #spilled ink #quotes #book quotes #literary quotes #excerpts #book excerpt #lit #books #books and libraries #prose #petronius #letter

[febookworm]

If I had a coin for every historical novel set in WWI with gay soldiers that I've read, now I would have three coins.

Which is not much, but it's quite a coincidence.

#bookworm #book #booklr #books i've read #wwi #historical #historical novel #the warm hands of ghosts #katherine arden #in memoriam #alice winn #the absolutist #john boyne

[veryvictorian]

Gay Victorian Book List

Hey there! I'm making this collaborative list of novels set in Victorian Age that have some sort of gay, m/m representation. Edwardian Age is fine as well. Please, do leave your recommendations in the comments below, I'd be happy to add them!

I'll mark with an asterisk (*) the books I have read myself.

Written in 19th century

The Sins of the Cities of the Plain, by Jack Saul (1881)*

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (1890)*

The Green Carnation, by Robert Smythe Hichens (1894)

A Marriage Below Zero, by Alan Dale (1889)

Fridolins heimliche Ehe (Fridolin's Mystical Marriage), by Adolf Wilbrandt (1875)

Written in 20th century

Maurice, by E.M. Forster (1914)*

Imre: A Memorandum, by Edward Prime-Stevenson (1906)

Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, by Frederick Rolfe (1904)

The Prussian Officer, by D. H. Lawrence (1914)

The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys, by Forrest Reid (1905)

The Immoralist, by André Gide (1902)

Tonio Kröger, by Thomas Mann (1903)

Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann (1912)

Contemporary

The New Life, by Tom Crewe (2023)

The Invention of Love, by Tom Stoppard (1997)*

An Unseen Attraction, by K.J. Charles (2017). Trilogy.

The Prince of Mirrors, by Alan Robert Clark (2018)

#queer victorian #victorian age #victorian literature #queer books #gay victorian #queer victorian books #victorian era #19th century #historical novel #oscar wilde #gay representation #book recs #lgbt books #pride reads

[broflovski-brah]

if you have ANY interest in WWII or the Holocaust, read “Night” by Elie Wiesel. That book is genuinely the best book I’ve ever read.

It’s his own written narrative about what he went through in multiple concentration camps and the ghetto he was sent to. It’s extremely good and I would recommend it to anyone who is a history nut, or is interested in WWII. There’s two more books, it’s a trilogy, I haven’t read the other two but “Night” is a phenomenal read. It’s quick. It’s less than 200 pages. But I would 100% recommend it.

#elie wiesel #night #book recommendations #world war ii #historical novel #history

[docpiplup]

Related with the Rabadis chapter of the Al Andalus. Historical Figures, there's some books and historical novels about the topic. Two of them are mentioned in a a couple of articles about the Rabadis I posted and translated here on Tumblr (X) (x) if anyone wants to take a look.

The last two books are historical novels, from a saga, The Arrabal Lineage, whose second novel was published last year.

La Odisea de los Rabadíes: El primer exilio hispano (The Odyssey of the Rabadis: the first Hispanic exile) by Manuel Harazem

March 2018 marks the 1,200th anniversary of an event that occurred in Córdoba that, despite remaining unknown to the majority of its current inhabitants, had crucial importance in the city, on the peninsula and in distant places in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. The revolt of the Saqunda suburb, its total destruction by the emir al-Hakam I and the expulsion of the surviving residents of the subsequent brutal repression has the honor, heroic on the one hand, but sad on the other, of having been the pioneer of two constants in the history of the peninsular peoples: the popular revolts inscribed in the class struggle and the exiles for political reasons. This is the first popular revolt for socioeconomic reasons and the first exile for political reasons that we have documentary evidence in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, a land that would be lavish in them from then until today. The consequence for Córdoba will be that the southern bank of the Guadalquivir would never be historically urbanized again until today, turning it into a strange case of a large city located on the bank of a river and equipped with a magnificent bridge that did not take advantage of that circumstance to develop in parallel. The consequence for distant places will be the colonization by those exiles of one of the most important cities of the Islamic world, Fez, the ephemeral, but impactful, founding of an independent republic in Alexandria and above all the creation of a prosperous Andalusian emirate on the island. of Crete that would survive for 130 years, facing the attacks of the Byzantine Empire, and throughout which its sovereigns would maintain the title of Cordoba with persistent pride. The exiles tend to be all similar, but in this case the exile of the Rabadíes, if it resembles any, is that of the Republicans after the civil war that unleashed the Spanish Fascist Revolution. The Arrabal revolt and the Republic are comparable events because both were rebellions of the popular classes allied to enlightened strata against absolute power and the permanent injustice of the emir and the regime of the national-Catholic agro-bourgeois elites. When the Power decides to apply the lesson, the emiral repression in the suburb will last three days and the civil war unleashed by the National Catholic forces will last three years. And in both cases, the terrible destruction is followed by an exile that takes two directions, one by land and the other crossing a long stretch of sea, Fez and France, Crete and America. And all cases will be fertilizers of culture of the host lands. This informative work collects the complete sequence of those distant events, which occurred in Córdoba, Toledo, Fez, Alexandria and Crete in the 9th century, in a research effort diving into different sources in different languages ​​to clarify dark points and dismantle some errors that over the centuries, scattered and unconnected stories had accumulated in traditional historiography. And along the way, he analyzes the city's relationship with history and the remains of its Islamic past. But above all it aims to vindicate the memory of some people from Córdoba who carried out the marvelous feat of rising up against injustice and turning their misfortune into a civilizing task in the distant lands where they sought refuge to rebuild their lives.

Los Andaluces Fundadores del Emirato de Creta (The Andalusian Founders of the Emirate of Crete), by Carmen Panadero

Do we Spaniards know our History? We think we know it. Sometimes important and exciting pages from our historical past appear before our eyes, which we had not heard about. There are many who are unaware, even in Spain, that thousands of families exiled from a suburb of Córdoba took the island of Crete from the Byzantine Empire, creating a dynasty of emirs there during the 9th century and part of the 10th. Very few are those who will know. that those simple people of the town, Iberians from an inland city who had not seen other waters than those of the Guadalquivir River, took over the hegemony of the eastern Mediterranean, defeating Byzantium in decisive naval battles. It all began in Córdoba, in the month of Ramadan 202 of the Hegira (March 818 AD). In this work we try to delve into the causes that caused the mutiny that gave rise to these events and we investigate the role played in it by the different social classes of the moment. Likewise, we analyze the subsequent historical events, triggered by the exile of the rebels from the Sequnda suburb and carried out by them. We will follow the outlawed Cordobans in their long and painful exodus, which, through North Africa and after a period in possession of Alexandria, concluded when they managed to take over the island of Crete. Byzantine and, later, Greek sources have dealt with to the History of the Emirate of Crete and to the people of Cordoba who founded it through manipulation and prejudice, falsifying the historical truth and even calling them pirates. It is inexcusable to finally do them justice, to rehabilitate the figure of their most important leader, Abu Hafs al-Ballutí, and that at least in Spain, his country of origin, it becomes known that the ancient town of Pedroche, his birthplace, and Córdoba, their capital, have many reasons to feel proud of this distinguished character and his lineage. This essay, with rhythm and air of chronicle, has as its main objective to banish the partial and biased vision of this chapter of our History and to make known the true nature of the State founded in Crete by the outlawed Cordobans of the Sequnda suburb. To this end, the author has had to find translators for the fundamental works that document this topic, since they had not even been translated into Spanish until now. Thanks to the Arabic chronicles and, above all, to three Greek historians (Vassilios Christides, Christos Makrypoulias and Nikolaos Panagiotakis), who for the first time faced these historical events, overcoming prejudices and initiating a rectification, we can partly reconstruct the exploits of these Hispanics, Muslims and Christians, in the eastern Mediterranean.

La Estirpe del Arrabal I: Córdoba en el recuerdo (The Arrabal Lineage I: Córdoba in memory), by Carmen Panadero

Córdoba, 9th century. Al-Hakam I, the most despotic of the Umayyad emirs, reigned. Abũ Hafs and his family are involved in the riot in a suburb of the Andalusian capital, they suffer the relentless punishment with which it was repressed, the executions of friends and neighbors, the loss of all their property, exile with 22,000 other families, the painful exodus through North Africa, but they managed to survive, and there their adventure begins. The outlaws of the suburb took Crete from Byzantium, and Abũ Hafs was sworn in as the first emir of the newborn dynasty. There they were able to recreate their second Córdoba and recover their customs. Abũ Hafs gave his life to that suffering people, guided them when they were aimless, minted their own currency, promoted flourishing trade, opened Crete to the world and settled the religious conflicts that plagued Byzantium. All of this seasoned with intrigue, betrayal, self-denial, love and heartbreak: the fight of an entire people for its survival.

La Estirpe del Arrabal I: Creta, El Precio del Olvido (The Arrabal Lineage II: Crete, The Price of Oblivion), by Carmen Panadero

10th century. The crown prince Abd al-Azĩz headed the embassy that arrived in Córdoba sent by his father, the emir of Crete Suhayb II, and when faced with the devastated suburb of Sequnda, from which a century before his ancestors were expelled by the emir al-Hakam I, felt the weight of History and meditated: — “I was never in Córdoba before, why do I feel then as if I had never left?”

But he decided to return to Crete and assume his responsibilities after swearing on those sacred ruins that, on the painful day in which he was to succeed his father, he would choose as his nickname al-Qurtubĩ, "the Cordoban", so that his people would always remember that the Forgetting their past would condemn them to lose Crete like one fateful day they lost Córdoba. And Byzantium lurked.

This novel, the 2nd part of La Estirpe del Arrabal, narrates the events of Abd al-Azĩz I al-Qurtubĩ, the last Andalusian Emir of Crete - his loves, his sorrows, his certain justice, his revenge - and in parallel offers us the touching love stories of his son Al-Numan with Bahã, and of his daughter Yannã with Karim al-Mundhir, the military hero that even Byzantium admired under the Hellenized name of “Karamountes”. And, furthermore, betrayals, intrigues, exploits, battles...

Carmen Panadero, author of novels such as El Collar de Aljófar, La Cruz y la Media Luna or El Halcón de Bobastro, gives us once again that alloy of history and fiction that constitutes the genuine historical novel.

Talking about the Emirate of Crete and the Byzantine Empire, there are some depictions of the battles between them in the Synopsis of Histories, work by the Byzantine historian John Skylitzes from the 11th Century, which covers history from Byzantine Emperors between the death of Nikephoros I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057.

Then in the Sicily during the 12th Century, a illuminated manuscript version of Synopsis of Histories was produced at the Norman court of Palermo. This manuscript is called Madrid Skylitzes, because nowadays is housed in the Spanish National Library, in the web page of the Library you can see the Madrid Skylitzes digitized.

1. Byzantine attack on Crete

2. Byzantines under Krateros defeat the Cretan Saracens

3. Byzantines under Nikephoros Phokas besiege Chandax

4. Byzantines under Ooryphas ambush and defeat the Cretan Saracens

#book scans related #al andalus #emirate of cordoba #emirate of crete #bookblr #books #al andalus history #historical novel #the rabadis #rabadid dinasty #spanish history #la odisea de los rabadíes #la odisea de los rabadíes: el primer exilio hispano #the odyssey of the rabadis: the first hispanic exile #manuel harazem #the odyssey of the rabadies #carmen panadero #los andaluces fundadores del emirato de creta #the andalusian founders of the emirate of crete #la estirpe del arrabal #the arrabal lineage #córdoba en el recuerdo #creta el precio del olvido #greek history #abd al-aziz i of crete #abd al-aziz al-qurtubi #al-balluti #synopsis of histories #john skylitzes

[pulpsandcomics2]

Morgan the Pirate by Robert Carse    (Dell, 1961)     cover by George Gross

#historical novel #pirate novel #george gross

[wangjibff]

A quick presentation on why you should read Dinghai Fusheng Records by Feitian Yexiang !

#danmei #dinghai fusheng records #mlm books #novel recommendation #fantasy novel #action novel #historical novel #romancenovel

[bainisintoomanyfandoms]

God, my obsession for The betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni is getting worse every hour

#am i sorry? no #italian literature #the betrothed #alessandro manzoni #i promessi sposi #historical novel

[retrobooks]

(via Writing Diversity: Creating Working Class and Underclass Characters)

#class system #historical novel #histfic #fiction

[thatstudyblrontea]

February 11, 2023

Second entry for the Tackle Your Classics reading challenge – The Fourty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel. It's a huge historical novel, of about 1000 pages, inspired by real-life events – in fact, the first work that informed the wider public about the Armenian genocide, back in 1933. It narrates the strenuous resistance of 7 Armenian villages against the Turkish army (which actually lasted 53 days, but the author took some liberties). Some takes and descriptions could be considered a little... outdated, to say the least, but in Werfel's defence, he lived in '30s Germany.

To be fair, I actually started the first two of my 1953 four-volumes Italian edition back in 2020, but had to stop due to never ending uni work. I'm finally picking it back up, and I'm determined to finish it before the spring semester starts!

#tackleyourclassics2023 #bookblr #book recs #the forty days of musa dagh #franz werfel #armenian genocide #books #book aesthetic #light academia #currently reading #reading #current read #long reads #booklr #vintage books #old books #historical novel

[rosalbarts]

Look who is back on tumblr! 

Hello there, I have changed my old username “shisleya” in “rosalbarts” to align with my other social media (Deviantart, Twitter, Instagram in particular is my main account).

I am not very active on twitter and deviantart, but since many people I am following there are moving to the old good tumblr, why not trying to revamp this old account of mine as well?

I had a lot of fun here in the 2010′s! My latest post dates back to 2017, so I want to cover the hole in the past 5 years by posting my favourite drawings and sketches I did in the meantime.

These ones are from 2017-2018 and I still like them! I was slowly transitioning from traditional pencils to digital ones. I’m still very proud of the result since I didn’t want the difference to be too noticeable.

They are all original characters from my and my co-author’s neverending novel -in-progress Instrumenta: from left to right (first image): Deianira, Farid, Nazim, Aki, and then again Aki and Deianira.

#sketchbook #sketch #instrumenta #my art #traditional pencil #digital pencil #original characters #ocs #oc art #oc artist #fantasy ocs #historical novel

[thebeautifulbook]

THE LOYAL RONINS: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE by Tamenag Shunsui. (New York: Putnam, 1880) Cover design by Edward Greey. Illustrated by Kei-sai Yei-sen of Yedo. Translated from the Japanese by Shiuichiro Saito and Edward Greey.

Cream paper with red binding tape on spine. Full color illustrations on front and back.

source

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #illustrated book #vintage books #victorian era #47 ronin #japanese art #japanese history #historical novel

[thedistortedperceptions]

(via Distorted Perceptions: My Novel)

#novel #histfic #distorted perceptions #historical novel #80s #retro

[stagbiitle]

wait I saw in your latest post that ya fantasy isn't your genre. what is if I may ask?

Mostly historical fiction. Think Les Mis or I, Claudius.

I love more "dark academia" oriented books too, like Dead Poets Society or The Secret History.

My favourite author is Hemingway, with Island in The Stream being one of my all time favourites. The Old Man and the See, The Sun Also Raises, To Have and Not to Have are also up there.

But it's not like I don't like fantasies! More on the fantasy side, I LOVED LOVED LOVED The Poppy War. She Who Became The Sun is also great.

The only genre that I don't read and I really don't like is romance. It's ok if there's romance as a side plot, but when it's the whole plot... boring. Definitely not for me.

#I'm not sure what to tag this with #historical fiction #historical novel #dark academia #(?) #ernest hemingway #the sun also rises #the old man and the sea #to have and not to have #Islands in the stream #les mierables #les mis #dead poets society #the secret history #the poppy war #she who became the sun #book recs #books #book preferences #book genres

[pulpsandcomics2]

Hornblower and the Atropos by C. S. Forester    (Caerwen, 1980)

#historical novel #horatio hornblower

[natasa-pantovic]

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