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Funny historical books

Historical fiction places its characters among the customs, ambitions and daily inconveniences of another time. Comic stories can turn a social rule into an obstacle, follow an outsider through unfamiliar rituals or let a sharp observer puncture someone’s dignity.

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Finding your way around this shelf

Consider the period and the kind of story you want around the jokes. Courtship, domestic life and political intrigue offer different pleasures. Use each profile’s premise and humor details to distinguish social comedy from a more adventurous or irreverent treatment of the past.

Humor is personal. Our labels describe supported traits, not a promise that every reader will find the same things funny. How we classify books.

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