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category Auel, Jean M. category Bradford, Barbara Taylor
category Chevalier, Tracy category Cookson, Catherine
category Cornwell, Bernard category Costain, Thomas
category Davis, Lindsey category Deveraux, Jude
category DuMaurier, Daphne category Dunnett, Dorothy
category Finney, Patricia category Forbes, Esther
category Forester, CS category Fraser, George Macdonald
category Garwood, Julie category Gregory, Philippa
category Haley, Alex category Heyer, Georgette
category Jakes, John category Kleypas, Lisa
category Laurens, Stephanie category Lawhead, Stephen R.
category Lindsey, Johanna category Lofts, Norah
category Lund, Gerald N. category McCarthy, Cormac
category McMurtry, Larry category McNaught, Judith
category Meyer, L. A. category Mitchell, Margaret
category Moore, Alan category Morris, Gilbert
category O'Brian, Patrick category Oke, Janette
category Perry, Anne category Peters, Elizabeth
category Peters, Ellis category Plaidy, Jean
category Quinn, Julia category Rees, Celia
category Rutherfurd, Edward category Small, Bertrice
category Spencer, LaVyrle category Stevenson, Robert Louis
category Tyndall, M. L. category Woodiwiss, Kathleen
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1 Back In Time
When I noticed there were not yet any quizzes in the category "Literature / Historic Fiction", I decided to write one. What do you know about the following novels set in a historic background? Have fun.
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Some sample questions from this category:

* Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" is set against the Napoleonic wars. Which of the following characters is one of the protagonists in "War and Peace"?
* In "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett, the protagonist is Tom Builder. What is the magnum opus Tom Builder wants to realise?
* James Clavell wrote several novels set in various epochs in Asia. Which of the following novels is set in Japan around 1600, the dawn of the Edo period?
* In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", a British friar travels to an Italian monastery where several monks die under suspicious circumstances. What is the name of the friar who finally unravels several mysteries?
* Time for a French historic novel. Emile Zola left us a novel in which he described a coalminers' strike in the north of France. What is the title of this book?


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