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A novel (from French nouvelle Italian "novella", "new") is an extended fictional narrative in prose. Until the eighteenth century, the word referred specifically to short fictions of love and intrigue as opposed to romances, which were epic-length works about love and adventure. During the 18th century the novel adopted features of the old romance and became one of the major literary genres. It is today defined mostly by its ability to become the object of literary criticism demanding artistic merit, a specific 'literary' style and a deeper meaning than a true story of the same content could claim to have.
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Novel and romance: unstable words
One meaning of the English word novel has remained stable: "novel" can still signify what is new owing to its "novelty". When it comes to fiction, however, the meaning of the term has changed over time:
- The period 1200-1750 saw a rise of the novel (originally a short piece of fiction) rivaling the romance (the epic-length performance). This development, which one could describe as the first rise of the novel, occurred across Europe, though only the Spanish and the English went one step further and allowed the word novel (Spanish: novela) to become their regular term for fictional narratives.
- The period 1700-1800 saw the rise of a "new romance" in reaction to the production of potentially scandalous novels. The movement encountered a complex situation in the English market, where the term "new romance" could hardly be ventured, after the novel had done so much to transform taste. The new genre also adopted the name novel: this new novel was a work of new epic proportions, with the effect that the English (and Spanish) eventually needed a new word for the original short "novel": The term novella was created to fill the gap in English; "short story" brought a further refinement.
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mrstaten (Mr. Staten) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:06:33 -0000
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@beldonstevens @leprincerebelle It's not so much that Narnia itself moves as it is that, like in the novels, the entrance to Narnia varies.
memerylane (Matt Emery) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:05:41 -0000
@beldonstevens @leprincerebelle It's not so much that Narnia itself moves as it is that, like in the novels, the entrance to Narnia varies.
Wonder what percentage of NaNo novels this year are vampire-related? (Thanks, Twilight!) #nanowrimo
meghanberes (Meghan Beresford) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:05:40 -0000
Wonder what percentage of NaNo novels this year are vampire-related? (Thanks, Twilight!) #nanowrimo
I typed "Hear the Wind Sing[風ã®æãè½ã]. I like his short stories more than his novels. What's your favorite one?", but I didn't click "reply".
avifors (@lee) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:04:28 -0000
I typed "Hear the Wind Sing[風の歌を聽け]. I like his short stories more than his novels. What's your favorite one?", but I didn't click "reply".
Much gratitude to our troops & veterans. Just sent off to troops (via nephew's kindergarten class) care packages including romance novels!
JulieAnneLong (Julie Anne Long) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:01:41 -0000
Much gratitude to our troops & veterans. Just sent off to troops (via nephew's kindergarten class) care packages including romance novels!
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boomstudios (boomstudios) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:39 -0000
BOOM! NOMINATED FOR YASLA's 2010 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS LIST! - http://eepurl.com/eWih
Above it All - A novel by George W. Morrison about the search for freedom, acceptance and love.
Advantage God - A series of dreams ostensibly from God reveals new scientific secrets about the universe.
Meta Description: [ Advantage God - Book One. Robert Leon's new techno-thriller novel in which God reveals startling secrets about himself, the universe . . . and us. FREE! ]
An urban-fox novel - A story of people and foxes sharing a Manchester suburb.
Meta Description: [ Free download of THE SUBURBAN TIMESHARE, a story of people and foxes sharing a Manchester suburb. ]
Anything Goes - A piece of fiction that intertwines the lives of many musical theatre characters.
Bret's Journals - A chronicle of a anti-hero's life through a series of comic and sometimes depraved situations.
Chief Blackbear - With numerous people trying to kill him and the cops trying to arrest him, Chief Blackbear tries to escape a world of crime.
Crow Magic - A bolt of lightning strikes a girl and a passing crow. She becomes convinced that the bird is her brother from another time or lifetime, and resolves to rescue his soul from the Underworld.
Meta Description: [ crow city ]
Darkzoo - The reader can click to read a multiple viewpoint novel, or choose to read the same general story from a particular character's point of view. Each of the views is a complete story.
Meta Description: [ Carl Frederick's home page ]
Freemindshow - Ongoing story about a rock and roll band, one new chapter each week.
Guardians of the Secret - An online novel of ideas. A political thriller about secrets.
Meta Description: [ T Shirts, Posters, Postcards and a free online political thriller about the battle for America's future and the interpretation of sprees and sexual fantasy. ]
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How I Learned to Disappear Completely (and never be found) - An unusual urban fantasy and romantic comedy about cancer and the apocalypse.
human mind - book online with neurally based theories of human consciousness, cognition and the evolution of the mind. Philosophical ramifications include a new understanding of free will, epistemology and an explanation of why we developed the two prominent paradigms of religion and science.
Meta Description: [ book online with neurally based theories of human consciousness, cognition and the evolution of the mind. Philosophical ramifications include a new understanding of free will, epistemology and an explanation of why we developed the for the two prominent paradigms of religions and science. ]
If You Walk Home - Based loosely on personal experiences of the author while working as a security guard in Boston.
Inquest - A fantasy serial in which a family is asked to produce a biography of an enigmatic wealthy professor.
Meta Description: [ Inquest - complete review Fiction ]
Letters from the Fire - A novel about the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia which explores issues of love and war in cyberspace.
Meta Description: [ Official site for 'Letters from the Fire,' a novel by Alma A. Hromic and R. A. Deckert ]
Life in Hypertext - Life stories, and essays. Interactive novel.
Meta Description: [ Life Stories, Essays and Journal Writing...Journaling and Journeying Towards a Unified Field of Hypertext Fiction and Creative Nonfiction. ]
Magnolia Hill - An array of fiction by author Karlene Kubat, offered in PDF format for download.
Meta Description: [ An author's library of free and new high quality love stories, mysteries, sci-fi novels, romances, adventure stories, and mainstream fiction to read on-line or download. ]
Manifesto - A collaborative novel.
Mike Rogers - First Quarter Moon. Our hero searches for the creative property thief known only as Bud
Music Chain - About six best friends who share a passion for music - and for each other.
North Parade - Internet novel available both as a complete book and as individual chapters, selectable by the reader.
Ocean of Love - A novel about carnatic music students in South India, by Martin Frank.
Official Site of Lala Corriere - Pre-publishing information on her new novel, The Fragrance of Age. Excerpt included.
Meta Description: [ Lala Corriere, novelist, The Fragrance of Age, CoverBoy, Widow's Row, endorsed by Sidney Sheldon ]
Omega - By Kevin Slack. Follows the history of the Shroud of Turin and the isolation of the god gene to make a clone of Jesus.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to the Official Omega website. Available from SynergEbooks, Omega follows the history of the Shroud of Turin, the career of ambitious doctor, Doctor Morrison, and the young life of Manny the Omega, Dr. Morrison's experiment. Is Omega the son of God or is he an abomination? ]
Omega - Omega returns the adult reader to the world of childhood imagination: a world populated by the fantastic, the fabulous and the thoroughly improbable.
Persephone's Torch - A mystery set against the world of 1930's theatre life.
Meta Description: [ A weekly comic strip serial, updated every Sunday. Join Quirk - Space Reject and his pals Carpy, Smith and Sludge as they have adventures throughout the galaxy in their extra-dimensional spaceship, the KBM Frigid. ]
Queen of Heaven - Fictional biography of Mary Magdalene.
Meta Description: [ A fascinating biography of Mary Magdalene based on
ancient texts from Egypt, Babylon, Sumer, Israel, Canaan and Greek, Hittite,
Arabic, and Indian myths. Following Miriam from birth to death, the novel vividly depicts the religious
milieu from which Christianity developed, and reveals the m... ]
Second Coming - By changing his point of view, an author is caught in a dilemma: Save his failing career or instigate the end of the world.
Meta Description: [ Second Coming complete text of the novel by Jim Wills ]
Shattered Glass - A full length novel posted as chapters are completed.
Sword Dance - A military helicopter crashes killing 24 of Britain's most senior intelligence officers. A political thriller set in Scotland.
Meta Description: [ A list of online books by Hugh Noble ]
Tales from the Hollow Earth - An illustrated hypertext fiction set in an alternative cosmology.
Meta Description: [ An illustrated novel where the pages are in the wrong order. : Tales from the Hollowearth ]
The Assassination of Roy's Suspended Disbelief - A surreal experimental work of fiction that makes extensive use of images and audio.
Meta Description: [ The Assassination of Roy's Suspended Disbelief, a collage novel by Q. Synopsis, The Assassination of Roy's Suspended Disbelief, a collage novel by Q. Synopsis ]
The Body Missing Project - The multi-lingual story of 16 Canadian and German artists and their inquirey into the art-theft policies of the Third Reich.
The Flower's Desire - Suicide Note: Case 019. This is a 17-year-old white male high school student with no previous attempts who died by drowning during a youth group retreat.
The Ghost of Alma Matterson - A novel by Kevin Delaney, the tale of a young man raised by computers.
The Glorious Sound - Action and suspense Netnovelet about two boys growing up in the 1910's and Roaring 20's.
Meta Description: [ "The Glorious Sound" is a "netnovelet" about the adventures of two boys growing up in the 1910's and Roaring 20's, their love of music, and a certain powerful and fascinating musical instrument which draws them into the center of exciting and dangerous events. ]
The Impossible History of Grimalky Quickens - The unexpurgated text of the original satire.
Meta Description: [ The satirical tale of a fresh university graduate making his way in the working world. ]
The Most Amazing Thing - Adventure story, spanning oceans and continents and bringing forth an abundant cast of characters, by Robert Grudin
The Ratcatcher - A political thriller involving Lithuanian mafia and European neo-nazis.
The Wistful Radio Chronicles - Nostalgic tales of Old Time Radio captured for posterity in an on-line novel.
Timberline - This novel explores how far we have come from our animal roots, and yet how close we still are to our prehistoric forbears, through the story of two children raised by wolves in an English forest.
To Wyoming - Portrait of America.
Tod Und Zerstorung - The story of Tod Und Zerstorung.
When Truth Kills Truth - By Peter Simon. Set mostly in Switzerland and on the Mont-Blanc, its protagonist is Robert Banks, a 35 year old British spy.
Wideawake - Twelve novels with a spiritual theme.
Meta Description: [ A cycle of 16 novels with a comprehensive mythological and spiritual theme intended to answer for the failure of modern human identity. ]
Writings by Oliver Benjamin - Free novels available for download.
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