Excerpt from Historical Fiction: Chronologically and Historically Related The intelligent understanding of this body of fiction requires some such historical procedure. The reader of any of these works may not be familiar with the facts. In such a case, to. Have the history briefly sketched in the manner in which it is here done and brought into such close relation to the stories precludes the necessity of resorting to the historical treatise for the facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.