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A novel is a long, fictional narrative. The novel in the modern era usually makes use of a literary prose style. The development of the prose novel at this time was encouraged by innovations in printing, and the introduction of cheap paper in the 15th century. Several characteristics of a novel might include:
By extension, book refers to a physical book's written, printed, or graphic contents. [4] A single part or division of a longer written work may also be called a book, especially for some works composed in antiquity: each part of Aristotle's Physics, for example, is a book. [5]
Varsity novel; Adventure fiction; Echtra – pre-Christian Old Irish literature about a hero's adventures in the Otherworld or with otherworldly beings. [15] Lost world [16] Nautical fiction; Picaresque novel – depicts the adventures of a roguish, but "appealing hero", of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.
A light novel (Japanese: ライトノベル, Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel native to Japan, [citation needed] usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting teens to twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging.
In 1935, Ernest Hemingway stated that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn'." [47] William van O'Connor wrote, in a 1955 issue of College English, that "we are informed, from a variety of critical positions, that [it] is the truly American novel". [48] [49] [50] [42] 1895 The Red Badge of ...
The first three novels in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series were dubbed a trilogy and even after he extended the series, author Douglas Adams continued to use the term for humorous effect—for example, calling Mostly Harmless "the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy." [7]
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, an example of a "classic book". A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or particularly noteworthy. What makes a book "classic" is a concern that has occurred to various authors ranging from Italo Calvino to Mark Twain and the related questions of "Why Read the Classics?"
The sometimes blurry definition between a novel and a novella can create controversy, as was the case with British writer Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach (2007). The author described it as a novella, but the panel for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 qualified the book as a "short novel". [23]