(See the prose epic 'The Battle of Vo Mimbre' for a colorful though basically accurate description of that duel.)
In the preparation for this prose epic of the Gueux he spent some ten years.
The publication has been called "the prose epic of the modern English nation".
The notes he made on his travels would later form part of a prose epic, Les Martyrs, set during the Roman persecution of early Christianity.
By the mid 1950s, with Tolkien's prose epic and the Lewis trilogy in wide circulation, the fiction of Christian revival was a sudden, active contender in the world of letters.
In Ireland, the prose epic or saga developed, and kept on developing, for well over a thousand years.
Iceland's best-known classical works of literature are the Icelanders' sagas, prose epics set in Iceland's age of settlement.
Along with René, it began as a discarded fragment from a long prose epic the author had composed between 1793 and 1799, Les Natchez, which would not be made public until 1826.
Gösta Berling's Saga has been called the "prose epic of Swedish country life."
All Men Are Brothers (1933) A translation of the Chinese classical prose epic Water Margin.