- Great britain, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction
An historical fantasy with bite. This debut novel from Naomi Novik is set in the Napoleonic period and layers history with imagination and fantasy by adding the Dragon Air Force to the battle for England.
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Classical in form, grave, epic and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Naomi Novik
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Voyager, Harper Voyager, imusti
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007219117
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