Home›Historical Fiction and Romance›Setting Country or PlaceBrowse BySetting Country or PlaceFactsSetting Country or PlaceSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1800 1Setting Country or PlaceFilter Results22 entriesGenreAllChivalric Romance (1)Gong'an Fiction (1)Historical Fiction (13)Magic Realism (1)Romance (1)Saga (1)The Novel (9)Wuxia (1)AuthorAllAlejo Carpentier (1)Alessandro Manzoni (1)Alexander Fadeyev (1)Alexandre Dumas (1)Charles Dickens (2)Colleen McCullough (1)Emilio Salgari (1)Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1)Gustave Flaubert (1)Henryk Sienkiewicz (1)Jean Rhys (1)Kim Man-jung (1)Luo Guangbin (1)Luo Guanzhong (1)Magda Szabó (1)Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)Pope Pius II (1)Shi Yukun (1)Umberto Eco (1)Walter Scott (1)Yang Yiyan (1)Composition YearAll1270 (1)1315 (1)1444 (1)1689 (1)1819 (1)1821 (1)1827 (1)1844 (1)1850 (1)1859 (2)1862 (1)1889 (1)1895 (1)1898 (1)1901 (1)1946 (1)1949 (1)1954 (1)1958 (1)1961 (1)1966 (1)1970 (1)1980 (1)1987 (1)Original LanguageAllBulgarian (2)English (7)French (2)Hungarian (1)Icelandic (1)Italian (4)Korean (1)Latin (1)Polish (1)Romanian (1)Russian (1)Sinitic (3)Spanish (1)Country of OriginAllAustralia (1)Chile (1)China (2)France (2)Hungary (1)Iceland (1)Italy (4)Poland (1)Qing dynasty (1)Russia (1)South Korea (1)United Kingdom (4)United States (1)AudienceAllChildren's (5)General (15)Young Adult (2)AwardAllStrega Prize (2)WH Smith Literary Award (1)Admission YearAll1707 (1)1788 (1)1946 (1)Area (sq km)All105.4 (1)118.53 (1)1287.36 (1)1572 (1)10,991 (1)25,832.39 (1)27,363 (1)27,700 (1)82,403 (1)93,030 (1)103,125 (1)132,932 (1)239,681 (1)302,069 (1)603,628 (1)632,702.3 (1)7,688,287 (1)9,572,900 (1)Climate ZoneAllTemperate (6)CoastalAllNo (1)Dissolution or End YearAll907 (1)1279 (1)1796 (1)Elevation BandAllLowland (6)Founding YearAll753 BCE (1)316 BCE (1)250 BCE (1)47 (1)Founding Year Range EndAll-701 (1)Founding Year Range StartAll-800 (1)Government TypeAllConstitutional Monarchy (2)One-Party (1)Republic (6)Income GroupAllHigh (5)Lower-Middle (1)Upper-Middle (3)Independence or Founding YearAll618 (1)843 (1)960 (1)1000 (1)1395 (1)1804 (1)1861 (1)1901 (1)1944 (1)1949 (1)1962 (1)1991 (1)LandlockedAllNo (8)Yes (1)PopulationAll24,216 (1)53,180 (1)394,324 (1)1,328,000 (1)2,047,602 (1)2,746,984 (1)2,824,913 (1)4,775,194 (1)7,154,084 (1)9,089,736 (1)9,489,000 (1)11,906,096 (1)27,801,023 (1)32,054,159 (1)32,283,000 (1)44,200,000 (1)56,490,048 (1)58,900,000 (1)69,081,996 (1)1,407,698,000 (1)Time ZoneAllUTC+00:00 (1)UTC+01:00 (3)UTC+08:00 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 22AustraliaSetting Country or Place1 entryThe CaribbeanSetting Country or Place2 entriesCarthageSetting Country or Place1 entryChinaSetting Country or Place1 entryChongqingSetting Country or Place1 entryDuchy of MilanSetting Country or Place1 entryEnglandSetting Country or Place1 entryFranceSetting Country or Place1 entryHaitiSetting Country or Place1 entryHungarySetting Country or Place1 entryIcelandSetting Country or Place1 entryItalySetting Country or Place1 entryJamaicaSetting Country or Place1 entryLondonSetting Country or Place1 entryMassachusettsSetting Country or Place1 entryParisSetting Country or Place1 entryRomeSetting Country or Place1 entrySicilySetting Country or Place1 entrySienaSetting Country or Place1 entrySong dynastySetting Country or Place1 entryTang dynastySetting Country or Place1 entryUkraineSetting Country or Place1 entrySources1. Historical fiction (Wikipedia)Historical fiction, lead section, early-19th-century foundations sentenceQuote, Historical fiction, lead section, early-19th-century foundations sentenceHistorical fiction as a contemporary Western literary genre has its foundations in the early-19th-century works of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries in other national literatures such as the Frenchman Honore de Balzac, the American James Fenimore Cooper, and later the Russian Leo Tolstoy.Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.