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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the Italian: novella for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the Latin: novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the…

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Defining the genre

Early novels

Medieval period: 1100–1500

Renaissance period: 1500–1700

18th-century novels

19th-century novels

20th century

21st century

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related to Early novels · 29
Novel → AD, Aesop Romance, Afterwards, Alexander Romance, Apuleius' The Golden Ass, Avantisundarīkathā, Banabhatta, BC, Byzantine, Chariton's Callirhoe, Classical Sanskrit, Daśakumāracarita, Daṇḍin, Eustathios Makrembolites Narrative, Greek, Hysimine, Hysimines, India, Indian, Kadambari
related to Modernism and post-modernism · 19
Novel → Alfred Döblin, Also, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce's Ulysses, Julio Cortázar's Rayuela, Later, Malone Dies, Marcel Proust, Molloy, On, Robert Coover, Samuel Beckett's, The Unnamable, This, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, William James
related to The romance genre in the 18th century · 19
Novel → But, Defoe, English, Exilius, Fénelon's Telemachus, Jane Barker, Les Aventures, Man, Manner, Names, Place, Robinson Crusoe, Romance, Spanish, Story, Telemachus, The, Télémaque, Western Europe
related to Cervantes and the modern European novel · 18
Novel → Another, Cervantes, Don Quixote, European, French, Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel, Honore, In Germany, It, L'Astrée, Miguel, Pantagruell, Scarron's Roman Comique, Simplicius Simplicissimus, Spanish, The, Urfe
related to Heroic romances · 15
Novel → Although, Astree, France, French, Gomberville, Heroic Romance, Heroical Romances, Honore, In, L'Astrée, Marin, Roy, That, The, Urfe
related to Satirical romances · 15
Novel → Amadisian, Don Quixote, England Richard Head's The, English Rogue, European, François Rabelais' Gargantua, Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus Teutsch, Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, Lazarillo, Pantagruel, Significant, Stories, The, Till Eulenspiegel, Tormes
related to Renaissance period: 1500–1700 · 13
Novel → Arthur, Both, Ethiopians, García Montalvo, Gaula, However, In, Sir John Mandeville's Voyages, Spanish Amadis, The, The Amadis, Thomas Malory's Le Morte, William Caxton's
related to The sentimental novel · 12
Novel → An, Both Sexes, Minds, Principles, Religion, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Sentimental, She, The, Virtue, Virtue Rewarded, Youth
related to The novella · 11
Novel → Black Death, Boccaccio's The Decameron, European, Fairy, Fiesole, Florence, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury, Tales, The, The Decameron, Written
related to External links · 10
Novel → Archived, British LibraryThe, British LibraryThe House, March, Preface, Retrieved, Seven Gables, The, The Telegraph, Wayback Machine

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Novelis aextended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book0.90text
Novelis afiction narrative that displays a realistic depiction of the state of a society0.90text
Novelis along0.90text
Hysimineinstance oftheir style was adapted in later Byzantine novels0.80text
Hysimines by Eustathios Makrembolites Narrative forms were also developed in Classical Sanskrit in India during the 5th through 8th centuriesinstance oftheir style was adapted in later Byzantine novels0.80text
Boccaccio's The Decameroninstance ofWritten collections of such stories circulated in a wide range of products from practical compilations of examples designed for the use of clerics to compilations of various sto…0.80text
Charles Dickensinstance ofwere also important.Major British writers0.80text
Thomas Hardy were influenced by the romance genre tradition of the novelinstance ofwere also important.Major British writers0.80text
which had been revitalized during the Romantic periodinstance ofwere also important.Major British writers0.80text
Anne Desclos' Story of Oinstance ofleading to the mainstream publication of explicitly erotic works0.80text
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch explore the nature of realityinstance ofThe surreal novels of Philip K Dick0.80text
reflecting the widespread recreational experimentation with drugsinstance ofThe surreal novels of Philip K Dick0.80text

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