Novel
From Conservapedia
A novel is a long, fictional book, almost always divided into smaller units, or chapters. The word has the same origin as the word "novel" meaning new. Therefore, it can be said that a "new novel" is a tautology.
The eleventh century The Tale of Genji, by Japanese author Murasaki Shikibu, has been described as the world's first novel.[1] The first modern European novel was Don Quixote de La Mancha (1605), written in Spanish by Miguel de Cervantes.
A very short novel (say between 20,000 and 50,000 words) is sometimes called a "novella." Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, consisting of about 38,000 words, is an example.
Contents
Word length of long novels
Here are the word lengths of notable long novels:[2]
- Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo – 530,982 words
- Bleak House, by Charles Dickens – 360,947 words
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens – 183,349 words
- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy – 561,304 words
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy – 349,736 words
- Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell – 418,053 words
- Moby Dick, by Herman Melville – 206,052 words
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway – 174,106 words
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë – 183,858 words
- Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen – 126,194 words
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller – 174,269 words
- Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand – 561,996 words
- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 211,591 words
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck – 169,481 words
- Ulysses, by James Joyce – 265,222 words
American
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Hemingway
- Herman Melville
- Lew Wallace
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Tom Wolfe
- Jack London
- Henry James
- Henry Miller
- Charles Bukowski
- Chuck Palahniuk
- David Foster Wallace
- Edith Wharton
- Harper Lee
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- J.D. Salinger
- John Updike
- John Dos Passos
- John Steinbeck
- Mark Twain
- Margaret Mitchell
- Joseph Heller
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Ray Bradbury
- William Faulkner
- Sinclair Lewis
- Isaac Asimov
- Stephen King
- Louisa May Alcott
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Norman Mailer
- Pearl Buck
- Philip Roth
- Toni Morrison
- Truman Capote
- William S. Burroughs
- James Michener
Irish
French
- ‘’Red and Black’’, (‘’Le Rouge et le Noir’’), Stendhal (1830)
- ‘’Pierre Goriot‘’, (‘’Le Père Goriot’’), Honoré de Balzac (1835)
- The Count of Monte-Cristo’’, (‘’Le Comte de Monte-Cristo’’), Alexandre Dumas (1844)
- ‘’Madame Bovary’’ Gustave Flaubert (1857)
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (1862)
- ‘’Voyage to the Centre of the Earth’’ (‘’Voyage Au Centre de la Terre’’), Jules Verne (1864)
- ‘’Germinal’’, Emile Zola (1877).
- ‘'Green Wheat’’ (‘’Le Blé en Herbe,’’) Colette (1923).
- ‘’In Search of Lost Time‘’ (‘’A la Recherche du Temps Perdu’’), Marcel Proust (1927)
- ‘’Journey to the Edge of the Night (‘’Voyage au bout de la nuit’’), Céline (1932)
- Nausea’’ (‘’La Nausée’'), Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
- The Plague (La Peste) Albert Camus (1947)
Russian
German
British
- Daniel Defoe
- Henry Fielding
- Jane Austen
- Walter Scott
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Charles Dickens
- George Eliot
- Thomas Hardy
- George Gissing
- Joseph Conrad
- Dorothy Richardson
- Virginia Woolf
- D. H. Lawrence
- John Cowper Powys
- Aldous Huxley
- George Orwell
- Graham Greene
