Thank you for posting that. I am reading it now and enjoying it very much.
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batgirl....good call.
I would never have taken "Gone with the wind" as example. Never read it and probably never will. I'd rather reread "Uncle Tom's cabin" and it's not going to happen!
Everybody has prejudices, right?
But thank you for the suggestion! I'll give it a try.
Batgirl, I thought sure one of your exceptions would be "The Chess Players" by Frances Parkinson Keyes. Did it hold true to the actual events, or stories of real people? Surely you've read it?
As a rule I greatly dislike historical novels or stories loosely based on real people and events. The exceptions to this are either totally fabricated stories that use events as a backdrop (say, Gone with the Wind or Winds of War) but hold true to the actual events, or stories of real people that interject rational behaviour based on what we know of those people without mutilating the actual events in the process.
A member here recently posted a short story of the latter sort. The story concerns a young Paul Morphy and his fateful meeting with the Hungarian expatriot chess master, John Löwenthal. The story fabricates certain scenes but does so in a perfectly rational manner maintaining a fine balance between historical understanding and fictional interjection. The story is cleverly designed and particularly well written. While divided into 8 parts, the story is a fast, easy read and an enjoyable diversion. For anyone who might be interested, it can be found HERE.