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— Hilary Mantel"You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career."
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Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
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The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.
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