Yaka, first published in 1984, is a sweeping historical novel that examines the lives of a family of Portuguese settlers who came to Benguela in the 19th century.

He laid plans for a sweeping, nineteenth-century-style historical novel, "The Radetzky March."

"As entertaining as Sarum and Rutherfurd's other sweeping novel of British history, London."

The last of Churchill's sweeping historical novels, the plot concerns the westward expansion of the United States, including the settlement of Kentucky.

It's as luxuriantly pleasurable as one of those great big sprawling, sweeping Victorian novels.

You wouldn't want to write your sweeping historical novel with version 2.0, but for letters, memorandums, short reports and the like, it is admirable and great fun.

The Washington Post called the book "a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage" with "passages in the novel that are lush and beautiful and precise."

He has branched into fantasy, writing sweeping novels with titles like "Imajica" and "The Great and Secret Show."

"Inheritance," her somber and sweeping first novel, takes place in midcentury China and revolves around two sisters.

They go expecting not a sweeping romantic novel, but the gardener's equivalent of The Oxford English Dictionary, right down to its apposite examples.