NOVEL

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NOVEL DEFINITION:

A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.

an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience, usually through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting. Within its broad framework, the genre of the novel has encompassed an extensive range of types and styles: picaresque, epistolary, Gothic, romantic, realist, historical—to name only some of the more important ones.

Ethimology:

The term novel is a truncation of the Italian word novella (from the plural of Latinnovellus, a late variant of novus, meaning “new”), so that what is now, in most languages, a diminutive denotes historically the parent form