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Family saga

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The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time. [1]

87 relations: Aga saga, Alex Haley, Andrzej Sapkowski, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Anne McCaffrey, Brideshead Revisited, Buddenbrooks, C. P. Snow, Captains and the Kings, Catherine Cookson, Chinese literature, Classic Chinese Novels, Colleen McCullough, Dorothy Dunnett, Dream of the Red Chamber, Dune (franchise), Eleanor Hibbert, Evelyn Waugh, Fall on Your Knees, Frank Herbert, Gabriel García Márquez, George Leonardos, Heimat (film series), Henry Williamson, Hirohiko Araki, Holes (novel), Household Saints, How the West Was Won (film), Howard Fast, I, Claudius (TV series), Icelandic language, In a Land of Plenty, Isabel Allende, Jalna (novel), James A. Michener, Jeffrey Eugenides, John Galsworthy, John Jakes, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (anime), Kristin Lavransdatter, Literature, Lois McMaster Bujold, Louis Sachar, Lymond Chronicles, Mazo de la Roche, Middlesex (novel), Novel sequence, Old Norse, One Hundred Years of Solitude, ..., Our Friends in the North, Palaiologan Dynasty (novel series), R. F. Delderfield, Roma (novel), Roots (1977 miniseries), Roots: The Saga of an American Family, S. M. Stirling, Saga, Sagas of Icelanders, Shannara, Sigrid Undset, Star Wars, Steven Saylor, Strangers and Brothers, Sunshine (1999 film), Susan Howatch, Terry Brooks, The Best of Youth, The Covenant (novel), The Emberverse series, The Forsyte Saga, The Godfather, The House of Niccolò, The House of the Spirits, The Immigrants, The Kent Family Chronicles, The Mallens, The Thorn Birds, The Thorn Birds (miniseries), The Witcher, This Is Us (TV series), Thomas Mann, To Ride Pegasus, Vacas, Vorkosigan Saga, White Teeth, Zadie Smith. Expand index (37 more) »

Aga saga

The Aga saga is a subgenre of the family saga genre of literature.

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Alex Haley

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.

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Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski (born 21 June 1948) is a Polish fantasy writer.

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Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actress and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-born writer who emigrated to Ireland and was best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series.

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Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.

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Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877.

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C. P. Snow

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was a novelist and English physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.

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Captains and the Kings

Captains and the Kings is a 1972 historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who emigrates as a penniless teenager to the United States, along with his younger brother and baby sister, only for their parents to die shortly afterwards.

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Catherine Cookson

Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (née McMullen; 27 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was an English author.

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Chinese literature

The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature vernacular fiction novels that arose during the Ming Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese.

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Classic Chinese Novels

In sinology, the Classic Chinese Novels are two sets of the four or six best-known traditional Chinese novels.

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Colleen McCullough

Colleen Margaretta McCullough (married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson;. Retrieved 2 February 2015 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi, the latter of which was involved in a plagiarism controversy.

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Dorothy Dunnett

Dorothy Dunnett (née Halliday, 25 August 1923 – 9 November 2001) was a Scottish historical novelist.

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Dream of the Red Chamber

Dream of the Red Chamber, also called The Story of the Stone, composed by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels.

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Dune (franchise)

Dune is a science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert.

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Eleanor Hibbert

Eleanor Alice Hibbert (née Burford; 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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Fall on Your Knees

Fall on Your Knees is a 1996 novel by Canadian playwright, actor and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald.

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Frank Herbert

Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.

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George Leonardos

George Leonardos (Γιώργος Λεονάρδος; born 1937) is a Greek author of historical novels.

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Heimat (film series)

Heimat is the title of a series of films, for a total of 32 episodes, written and directed by Edgar Reitz, which view life in Germany between 1840s to 2000 through the eyes of a family from the Hunsrück area of the Rhineland.

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Henry Williamson

Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English army officer, naturalist, farmer and ruralist writer known for his natural history and social history novels.

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Hirohiko Araki

is a Japanese manga artist.

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Holes (novel)

Holes is a 1998 young adult mystery comedy novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Household Saints

Household Saints is a 1993 film starring Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio and Lili Taylor.

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How the West Was Won (film)

How the West Was Won is a 1962 American Metrocolor epic-Western film.

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Howard Fast

Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer.

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I, Claudius (TV series)

I, Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God.

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Icelandic language

Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, and the language of Iceland.

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In a Land of Plenty

In A Land Of Plenty is a 10-episode British television drama serial produced by Sterling Pictures and Talkback for BBC Two in the United Kingdom.

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer.

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Jalna (novel)

Jalna is a novel by the Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche.

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James A. Michener

James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 books, most of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

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John Jakes

John William Jakes (born March 31, 1932) is an American writer, best known for American historical fiction.

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (anime)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (anime) may refer to.

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Kristin Lavransdatter

Kristin Lavransdatter is a trilogy of historical novels written by Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset.

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold (born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer.

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Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar (born March 20, 1954) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author.

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Lymond Chronicles

The Lymond Chronicles is a series of six novels written by Dorothy Dunnett and first published between 1961 and 1975.

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Mazo de la Roche

Mazo de la Roche (January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961), born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.

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Middlesex (novel)

Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002.

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Novel sequence

A novel sequence is a set or series of novels which share common themes, characters, or settings, but where each novel has its own title and free-standing storyline, and can thus be read independently or out of sequence.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia.

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Our Friends in the North

Our Friends in the North is a British television drama serial produced by the BBC.

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Palaiologan Dynasty (novel series)

Palaiologan Dynasty (Παλαιολόγεια Δυναστεία) is the collective name given to a trilogy of historical novels on the Palaiologan dynasty, the last tuling house of the Byzantine Empire, written by Greek author George Leonardos.

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R. F. Delderfield

Ronald Frederick Delderfield (12 February 1912 – 24 June 1972) was an English novelist and dramatist, some of whose works have been adapted for television.

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Roma (novel)

Roma is a historical novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St. Martin's Press in 2007.

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Roots (1977 miniseries)

Roots is an American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976.

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S. M. Stirling

Stephen Michael Stirling (born September 30, 1953) is a French-born Canadian-American science-fiction and fantasy author.

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Saga

Sagas are stories mostly about ancient Nordic and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages, and migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families.

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Sagas of Icelanders

The Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), also known as family sagas, are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the 9th, 10th, and early 11th centuries, during the so-called Saga Age.

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Shannara

Shannara is a series of high fantasy novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with The Sword of Shannara in 1977 and continuing through The Black Elfstone which was released in June 2017; there is also a prequel, First King of Shannara.

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Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Steven Saylor

Steven Saylor (born March 23, 1956) is an American author of historical novels.

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Strangers and Brothers

Strangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, published between 1940 and 1970.

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Sunshine (1999 film)

Sunshine is a 1999 historical drama film directed by István Szabó and written by Israel Horovitz and Szabó.

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Susan Howatch

Susan Howatch (born 14 July 1940) is a British author.

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Terry Brooks

Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction.

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The Best of Youth

The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù), is a 2003 Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana.

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The Covenant (novel)

The Covenant is a historical novel by American author James A. Michener, published in 1980.

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The Emberverse series

The Emberverse series, or Change World, is a series of post-apocalyptic alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling.

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The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize–winning English author John Galsworthy.

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel of the same name.

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The House of Niccolò

The House of Niccolò is a series of eight historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett set in the mid-fifteenth-century European Renaissance.

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The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende.

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The Immigrants

The Immigrants (1977) is a historical novel written by Howard Fast.

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The Kent Family Chronicles

The Kent Family Chronicles (also known as The American Bicentennial Series) is a series of eight novels by John Jakes written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.

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The Mallens

The Mallens was a popular Granada Television adaptation of Catherine Cookson novels that ran for 13 episodes from 1979 to 1980.

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The Thorn Birds

The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by the Australian author Colleen McCullough.

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The Thorn Birds (miniseries)

The Thorn Birds is an American television miniseries broadcast on ABC from March 27 to 30, 1983.

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The Witcher

The Witcher (Wiedźmin), by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, is a fantasy series of short stories and novels about the witcher Geralt of Rivia.

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This Is Us (TV series)

This Is Us is an American drama television series created by Dan Fogelman that premiered on NBC on September 20, 2016.

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Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

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To Ride Pegasus

To Ride Pegasus is a collection of four science fiction stories by American writer Anne McCaffrey, published by Ballantine Books in 1973 and later under its Del Rey imprint.

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Vacas

Vacas (English: Cows) is a 1992 Spanish film, written and directed by Julio Médem.

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Vorkosigan Saga

The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.

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White Teeth

White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith.

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith FRSL (born 25 October 1975) is a contemporary British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_saga

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