"Those who put the historical novel in a category apart are forgetting that what every novelist does is only to interpret, by means of the technique which his period affords, a certain number of past events; his memories, whether consciously or unconsciously recalled, whether personal or impersonal, are all woven of the same stuff as history itself."
Historical fiction

January 1, 1970

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