The English Patient is a wonderfully crafted novel of love.
The English Patient is a famous novel that won the Booker Prize for Michael Ondaatje. It was made into an exquisite movie starring Ralph Fiennes. I have read the novel and seen the movie. I have also listened to the audiobook narrated by Ralph Fiennes.
The English Patient was based on a real person. He is Count Laszlo Almasy. See The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy: The Real English Patient by John Bierman 2004.
In the novel and movie, the English Patient was portrayed reading a much-thumbed book. The image brought great fame to that book.
Herodotus was an ancient Greek writer who lived about 450 B.C. The History of Herodotus which he wrote described the conflict between the ancient Greeks and Persians. It is considered one of the seminal works of history in Western literature.