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Burr
Burr (1973), by Gore Vidal, is an historical novel challenging the traditional iconography of American history via narrative and memoir by Aaron Burr, the third vice president; he also was an Army officer and combat veteran of the Revolutionary War, a lawyer and senator from New York. In an 1804...
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of...
Novel
A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century.
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Historical novel
Historical fiction is a genre in which the plot is set amidst historical events, or more generally, in which the author uses real events but adds one or more fictional characters or events, or changes the sequence of historical events.
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