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A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The English word to describe such a work 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 novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel.Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance". M. H. Abrams and Walter Scott have argued that a novel is a fiction narrative that displays a realistic depiction of the state of a society, while the romance encompasses any fictitious narrative that emphasizes marvellous or uncommon incidents. Works of fiction that include marvellous or uncommon incidents are also novels, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Such "romances" should not be confused with the genre fiction romance novel, which focuses on romantic love. Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, an early 11th-century Japanese text, has sometimes been described as the world's first novel, because of its early use of the experience of intimacy in a narrative form. There is considerable debate over this, however, as there were certainly long fictional prose works that preceded it. The spread of printed books in China led to the appearance of classical Chinese novels during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), and Qing dynasty (1616-1911). An early example from Europe was Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by the Sufi writer Ibn Tufayl in Muslim Spain. Later developments occurred after the invention of the printing press. Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era. Literary historian Ian Watt, in The Rise of the Novel (1957), argued that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century. Recent technological developments have led to many novels also being published in non-print media: this includes audio books, web novels, and ebooks. Another non-traditional fiction format can be found in graphic novels. While these comic book versions of works of fiction have their origins in the 19th century, they have only become popular recently. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works about novel 30
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Kembara Rindu
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The Indian Story of an Author
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Pretty Paper
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Gone Are The Days
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La Bastarda
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La Bastarda
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Panga Rilene
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Baiso : ellas y sus relato
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In Love and War
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Dualism
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By night the mountain burns / Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel ; translated by Jethro Soutar
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The Looking Glass
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La Description double dans le roman français des Lumières
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Dreams in Prussian Blue
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Arde el monte de noche / Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel ; introducción de José Manuel Pedrosa
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El rincón de Polopó
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Every Day is for the Thief
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Hidden Passions
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The Wild Numbers
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Awéwé Dulang Tinandé
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Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, an
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Telugu Navala
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Der deutsche Roman der Gegenwart: Entwicklungsvoraussetzungen und Tendenzen; Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Uwe Johnson, Christa Wolf, Hermann Kant
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Towards a Sociology of the Novel
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Versuch über das Theater
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Gobara Gotei
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The Irish Novel: A Critical History
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Jadi Penulis Siapa Takut!
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Le dernier jour d'un condamne, suivi de Claude Gueux et Affaire Tapner
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Le grand flot
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