(isim) roman

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novel
A work of prose fiction, longer than a short story
new, original, especially in an interesting way
A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work

merry tales such as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels, and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione, which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.

{n} a feigned story or tale, a law to the code
of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
a novelty
one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love
In the broadest sense, any extended fictional narrative, almost always in prose; customarily restricted to narratives in which the representation of character occurs either in a static condition or in the process of development as the result of events or actions; often implies that some organizing principle (plot, theme, idea) should be present
News; fresh tidings
a long printed story about imaginary characters and events
a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"
an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with human experience through a usually connected sequence of events
a fictional book that tells a story about people and things (e g "Anne of Green Gables" is a famous Canadian novel )
A new or supplemental constitution
- a product which is novel or innovative with respect to its purpose, positioning, packaging or formulation
A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp
n A short story padded A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new Peace to its ashes -- some of which have a large sale
See the Note under Novel, a
a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story pleasantly novel or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort
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