Novel
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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 first modern European novel was Don Quixote de La Mancha (1605), written in Spanish by Miguel de Cervantes.
A very short novel is sometimes called a "novella."
American novelists
- 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