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Originally Posted by adelheid
As far as historical novels go, I would recommend Flaubert's Salammbo.
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Adelheid
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Great classic, no question about it. I've read a long time ago (easily 20 yrs+), and reread it once several years later but the imagery still remains vivid to me. It really opened a big epoch of exploration in French Africa in the 19th century, so influential it was at the time.
More classics:
Pharaoh by Boleslaw Prus (appeared on Gutenberg just recently, though under a slightly different name - and I really did not have the time to check how good is the translation) and of course
Quo Vadis by H. Sienkiwickz which is still unsurpassed as a masterpiece of Christian historical fiction
Other classics though from the first part of the 20th century are
I Claudius by R. Graves and
The Corn King and Spring Queen by N. Mitchison.