/lit/ - Literature

I, Claudius
The bloody poet Nero
The Death of Virgil

I've been reading The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London. It's pretty good.

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Martin series
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies

>Wolfe
>T.H.E. Greeks
Surely this is the greatest novel ever written?

Aztec by Gary Jennings

>>6541468

I, Claudius and Claudius the God (Graves
Memoirs of Hadrian (Yourcenar)
Oeuvre au noir / The Abyss (??) (Yourcenar)
Death of Vergil (Broch)
Julian (Gore Vidal)
Maurice Druon's Rois Maudits / Accursed Kings series

Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies are solid and will probably continue to be read much after more 'literary' writers of today have disappeared, but I don't think they fall among the greats of historical fiction. Maybe the third book will change my mind though.

I have a personal childhood soft spot for Rosemary Sutcliff and her Roman Britain novels like Eagle of the Ninth.

>>6540549
>Jack London
>The Sea-Wolf
what is this dude's deal with dogs?

>>6541529
>Memoirs of Hadrian (Yourcenar)
>Oeuvre au noir / The Abyss (??) (Yourcenar)
Seconding

I really liked the Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell, dude is great at painting a vivid picture of medieval life and large scale historical battles.

Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
It gives a very convincing picture of what could have been Arthur

Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts for a critical look at the American War

>>6541538
He went to the Klondike. Sled dogs are extra special friends up north.

>>6539489

Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy.

>>6539489
>ctrl f
>no Quo Vadis

lit has really gone down hill

>work of historical fiction
>character uses words or concepts anachronistically

>>6541831
Yeah, until they leave and the Injuns kill you.

Fucking hell Buck, the man loved you!

>>6542546
>Quo Vadis

It sounds good. Does it have feels? Pic related is my contribution.

>>6542740
Yes lots of feels

>>6542551
Did someone actually make a Pepe doll? I don't know if that's embarrassing or actually kind of cute. I guess both in equal measure are Pepe's style.

and Q as well

>>6542784
?

>>6542784
This is the strangest bait ever

>>6542740
Is he actually good or just a bizarre crack head?

>>6543855
i'm not sure it's bait, pal

>>6542784
this is some fucking post post modern b8 m8

a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Arctic to force the Northwest Passage in 1845–1848.

>>6545388

When they finally revealed the creature's identity, it got way too outlandish.
I recently read the Buried Giant by Kazuo Something. It was set in medieval arthurian england complete with fantasy forklore elements. I enjoyed that it was less 'grand destiny' and more 'fantasy road trip.'

Anyone read Shogun? Only see glowing reviews for it everywhere, was thinking of picking it up

>>6546705
Just pick it up

>>6546705
I enjoyed it. Not going to win any 'muh prose' awards but a good action adventure novel that was also informative about Japan and England/Holland's attempt to disrupt Portugal's trade monopoly with Japan.

>>6547565
Cool, thanks

Masters of Rome series
I, Claudius is shit

>>6548680
>I, Claudius is shit

You are shit!