Historical Roman/Novel

Brittanica.com says about historical novel:

"a novel that has as its setting a usually significant period of history and that attempts to convey the spirit, manners, and social conditions of a past age with realistic details and fidelity (which is in some cases only apparent fidelity) to historical fact. The work may deal with actual historical characters...or it may contain a mixture of fictional and historical characters"

Yes, if a novel contains historical setting (background - time and place), like a part of history that really ever happened or a really existed historical figure, it is a historical novel.

I am one of the fans of this kind of book/literature/film. I'm fond of history since I was a kid, my mom or my grandma had told me various yet amazing stories. Even until now, my favorite moment is when I listen to someone talking about chronicles of something, someplace or someone. I listen like a good student :D The thing is, I want to know a lot more information about what had happened in a certain time at a certain place with a famous people, that's actually one of the reasons why I choose to study German Literature, German has a great history, who doesn't know about Prussia and Alexander the great? Who doesn't know Hitler and NAZI? Well, I know a lot more about it :p

I love to learn history from novels or films because I didn't even realize that I am learning something, so it's really enjoyable yet entertaining, and I would start to google or find articles about it and compare the real event and those which happened in the book or film. Here are 10 amazing historical novels/roman:

Aufklärung

Enlightenment.

Last nite all of the good, happy, sad, and furious memories were flashed back before me. I came into decision that shocked many people, even myself muahaha. 

"Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity."

 -Immanuel Kant,Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?-

 I thanked each moment I've spent, each lesson I've learned, each thing I've been given, and that's why I'm making this lil' yet simple memoir, to remind me of my readiness in moving on into my next phase of life. They wudn't be some wasted years because they were  nice :) next is up to me~

The Generous I: Chiung Yao/Qiong Yao

Chiung Yao is a novelist and songwriter who's born in Sichuan, China 1938. But then, she also became a scriptwriter and producer in films which based on her novels. I read her books since I was on yhe 4th grade of elementary school. It started out when I was really like watching "Putri Huan Zhu I" or "Princess Pearl I" on Indosiar back in 1999. That was my first Chinese historical drama based on Chiung Yao's novel, when I was 9 years old. I like it a lot till every time I  went to Carrefour with my parents I always came over the book and stationary station (not so many books there and the novels were located in the corner of the racks, I mean.. that's just so bad)  and asked my mom to be bought PHZ 1 books, which consisted of several series in one season (of course it needed several back and forth to get all of them). Muahahaha. 

I've read all of the books but they were not in the shape now thanks to flood in 2002 :( Anywaaay, not only PHZ I that I recomend to read, there are also several novels from Chiung Yao which made me tearing up when I read them, since they were almost had tragic endings, but still she described every situation, moment, and the act of the figures very detail, that makes us drown in our own imagination.  I'll be back with my fave books of her : PHZ I and PHZ II. Lalalala~