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Title page of the 1628 edition of Bacon's New Atlantis

Anovel is an extended work ofnarrative fiction usually written inprose andpublished as abook. 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 ofnovellus, diminutive ofnovus, meaning 'new'. According toMargaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in theAncient Greek andRoman novel, Medievalchivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissancenovella. The ancient romance form was revived byRomanticism, in thehistorical romances ofWalter Scott and theGothic novel. Some novelists, includingNathaniel Hawthorne,Herman Melville,Ann Radcliffe, andJohn Cowper Powys, preferred the termromance. Such romances should not be confused with thegenre fiction romance novel, which focuses on romantic love.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, likeHarper Lee'sTo Kill a Mockingbird. The romance, on the other hand, encompasses any fictitious narrative that emphasizes marvellous or uncommon incidents. In reality, such works are nevertheless also commonly called novels, includingMary Shelley'sFrankenstein andJ. R. R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Rings.

The spread of printed books in China led to the appearance of the vernacularclassic Chinese novels during theMing dynasty (1368–1644), andQing dynasty (1616–1911). An early example from Europe wasHayy ibn Yaqdhan by theSufi writerIbn Tufayl inMuslim Spain. Later developments occurred after theinvention of the printing press.Miguel de Cervantes, author ofDon Quixote (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant Europeannovelist of themodern era. Literary historianIan Watt, inThe Rise of the Novel (1957), argued that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century withRobinson Crusoe.

Recent technological developments have led to many novels also being published in non-print media: this includesaudio books,web novels, andebooks. Another non-traditional fiction format can be found ingraphic novels. While thesecomic book versions of works of fiction have their origins in the 19th century, they have only become popular recently. (Full article...)

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Title-page engraving from an 1897 edition of Le Père Goriot

Le Père Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwrightHonoré de Balzac, included in theScènes de la vie privée section of hisnovel sequenceLa Comédie humaine. Widely considered as Balzac's most important novel, it marks the first serious use by the author of characters who had appeared in other books, a technique that distinguishes Balzac's fiction and makesLa Comédie humaine unique among bodies of work. It is also noted as an example of hisrealist style, using minute details to create character andsubtext. Set inParis in 1819,Le Père Goriot follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot; a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin; and a naive law student namedEugène de Rastignac. The story takes place during theBourbon Restoration, which brought about profound changes in French society; the struggle of individuals to secure upper-class status is ubiquitous in the book. The novel was released to mixed reviews. Some critics praised the author for his complex characters and attention to detail; others condemned him for his many depictions of corruption and greed. A favorite of Balzac's, the book quickly won widespread popularity and has often beenadapted for film and the stage.

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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

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...that authorKen Kesey taught a course at theUniversity of Oregon where he and thirteen studentscollaboratively wroteCaverns?
...thatBeth Groundwater'sA Real Basket Case was nominated for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007?
...that the 1919 novelLad: A Dog(pictured) is afictionalized account of the life of authorAlbert Payson Terhune's real liferough collie Lad?

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Image 1King Kong (1932) novelization ofKing Kong (1933) (fromNovelization)
Image 2Chapbook (c. 1800) ofJack the Giant Killer (fromChapbook)
Image 3Samuel Richardson'sPamela (1741) (fromNovel)
Image 4Harriet Beecher Stowe'sUncle Tom's Cabin (1852) (fromNovel)
Image 5Chaucer recitingTroilus and Criseyde: early-15th-century manuscript of the work atCorpus Christi College, Cambridge (fromNovel)
Image 6A modern chapbook (fromChapbook)
Image 7Laurence Sterne,Tristram Shandy, vol.6, pp. 70–71 (1769) (fromNovel)
Image 8Novelization of chapter 8 of the film seriesLes Vampires (1915–16) (fromNovelization)
Image 9Paper as the essential carrier:Murasaki Shikibu writing herThe Tale of Genji in the early 11th century, 17th-century depiction (fromNovel)
Image 10Woodcut of afairy-circle from a 17th-century chapbook (fromChapbook)
Image 11Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vladivostok, 1995 (fromNovel)
Image 12Dan Brown (fromNovel)
Image 13A light novel bookstore inMacau (fromLight novel)
Image 141719 newspaper reprint ofRobinson Crusoe (fromNovel)
Image 15Madame de Pompadour spending her afternoon with a book (François Boucher, 1756) (fromNovel)
Image 16Intimate short stories:The Court and City Vagaries (1711). (fromNovel)
Image 17Harlequin novels (fromRomance novel)
Image 18The picaresque genre began with the Spanish novelLazarillo de Tormes (1554) (Pictured: Its title page) (fromPicaresque novel)
Image 191474: The customer in the copyist's shop with a book he wants to have copied. This illustration of the first printed GermanMelusine looked back to the market of manuscripts. (fromNovel)
Image 20One of the most influential novels on the picaresque genre wasThe Golden Ass byApuleius, which he published sometime in the 2nd century AD. (ms. Vat. Lat. 2194,Vatican Library) (1345 illustration). (fromPicaresque novel)
Image 21Paranormal Novels: TheTwilight Saga (fromRomance novel)
Image 22J. K. Rowling, 2010 (fromNovel)
Image 23Adventurenovels andshort stories were popular subjects for Americanpulp magazines. (fromAdventure fiction)
Image 24Image from a Victorian edition ofWalter Scott'sWaverley (1814) (fromNovel)
Image 25Richard Head,The English Rogue (1665) (fromNovel)
Image 26A nineteenth-century painting by the Swiss-French painterMarc Gabriel Charles Gleyre depicting a scene fromLongus'sDaphnis and Chloe (fromRomance novel)
Image 27First edition ofAleksis Kivi'sThe Seven Brothers (1870) (fromNovel)
Image 28"Oh Edward! How can you?", a late-19th-century illustration fromSense and Sensibility (1811) byJane Austen, a pioneer of the genre (fromRomance novel)
Image 29Chinua Achebe, Buffalo, 2008 (fromNovel)
Image 301915 novelization of the original 1904 playPeter and Wendy (fromNovelization)
Image 31The frontispiece of a late 18th-century chapbook edition ofVoltaire'sThe Extraordinary Tragical Fate of Calas, depictingJean Calas beingbroken on the wheel (fromChapbook)

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