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Fiction
The author states in the foreword that although the novel is not a true historical novel, she has attempted “to preserve the historical sequence of events and to portray the life of the period.” Whether she has succeeded in portraying the life of the period, I cannot judge, but to my mind her succes
Fiction is often defined as that form of prose narrative in which the characters, scenes, and incidents are partly or entirely imaginary. The novel and the romance are the two kinds of fiction, although they are not often consistently differentiated. There is, however, a slight difference betwe
❖ Fiction
However, fiction, although it is not history, although it never actually happened, deals with life. Fiction is a presentation of reality. It is the sphere of experience. That is why it is so important who the writer of a novel is. For the author of a novel will disseminate within his work whatever h
The fact that the author tries to cover so much history and so many events in a book of 224 pages of average-sized print gives one an idea of what this book is like. It is interesting and romantic, although sketchy, from an historical viewpoint, but as a novel it lacks plot and intrigue. Its Chris
The fact that Jesus taught in parables, some of which even included dialogue, indicates that one can make up a story to get across a certain point. One could, therefore, write a fictional story in an effort to set forth clearly a biblical truth. Such a story could, I suppose, be referred to as “Chri