Just to be different, I have read the following series in internal chonology: Sharpe, Hornblower, Aubrey-Maturin, and Flashman. I think Sharpe especially benefited from this. It was quite amusing too to see in the later books that the various authors realised that they were fast running out of historical time in which to cram more and more story. Patrick O'Brian struggled a lot with this. The first published Aubrey-Maturin books covered several years, but towards the end of the series he was eeking the time out so much like a chronological miser, that one year I think had 18 months in it. Still my favourite series.
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