Fiction

Fiction

1. Novels

   • An extended fictional prose narrative characterized by its disregard for the contraints that gover other literary forms no obligatory structure, style or subject matter
   • Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847

2. Short stories

   • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
   • A fictional prose tale, too short to be published on its own volume, concentrate itself on one character or two and a single event it flourished in the magazines in the 19th century
   • Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1820

3. Novellas

   • A fictional prose tale intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel, it concentrate itself on a signe or a chain of event with a surprising turning point 
   • The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890
   • Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890

4. Romances

   • A fictional story in verse or prose that relates improbable adventures of idealized characters in some remote or enchanted setting but cannot be as free as novels 
   • Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur 1485

5. Fables

   • A brief tale in verse or prose that conveys a moral lesson usually by giving human speech and manners to animals and inanimate things 
   • Fables de la Fontaine 1668

6. Parables

   • Brief tale meant to be understood as an allegory illustrating some moral or lesson
   • Fables and Parables Ignacy Krasicki 1779

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