I think the golden age of historical fiction is long past, of works like: -Walter Scott's Ivanhoe -George Eliot's Romola -Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis -Bu

I think the golden age of historical fiction is long past, of works like: -Walter Scott's Ivanhoe -George Eliot's Romola -Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis -Bulwer Lytton's Last days of Pompeii -Evelyn Waugh's Helena -Anatole France's God's are athirst. -Tolstoy's War and Peace -Gore Vidal's Burr and also some of the others.