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Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by English writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction. The novel explores the postmodern concerns of similar novels, which are often categorised as historiographic metafiction , a genre that blends approaches from both historical fiction and metafiction .
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by R. D. Blackmore, first published in three volumes in London in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset , particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor .
A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primarily focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. Authors who have contributed to the development of this genre include Maria Edgeworth, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë.
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Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), historical romance; Patience Wheatcroft (born 1951) Dennis Wheatley (1897–1977), The Devil Rides Out; Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966) Charles Whistler (1856–1913), historical novels; Evelyn Whitaker (1844–1929), didactic novels for young; Antonia White (1899–1980), Frost in May
When an answer is composed of multiple or hyphenated words, some crosswords (especially in Britain) indicate the structure of the answer. For example, "(3,5)" after a clue indicates that the answer is composed of a three-letter word followed by a five-letter word. Most American-style crosswords do not provide this information.
The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel , and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. Its publication was started on 4 January 1868 and was completed on 8 August 1868.
Walter Scott describes romance as a "kindred term", [3] and many European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo". [ 4 ] There is a second type of romance, genre fiction love romances , where the primary focus is on love and marriage. [ 5 ]