Classics and Notable Titles
Distinguishing Features
- Essentially, realistic fiction set in the past.
- Characters, events and other details may be based on actual people or events from the past, though additions such as imagined dialogue and/or characters make the work fictional.
- Readers can gain an understanding of the past and relive past events vicariously.
- Authors may build their fictional stories around a specific event,
- person or time period/place in history.
- Evidence of an author’s research is important: look for author notes at the end of the work.
- Great way to generate interest in historical events.
