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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]]. | 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. | + | The eleventh century ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'', by Japanese author [[Murasaki Shikibu]], has been described as the world's first novel.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190814-the-tale-of-genji-the-worlds-first-novel "The Tale of Genji: The world’s first novel?"]</ref> 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." | + | 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. |
− | == | + | ==American== |
+ | * [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] | ||
+ | * [[Ernest Hemingway]] | ||
+ | * [[Herman Melville]] | ||
+ | * [[Lew Wallace]] | ||
+ | * [[James Fenimore Cooper]] | ||
+ | * [[Tom Wolfe]] | ||
+ | * [[Jack London]] | ||
+ | * [[Henry James]] | ||
+ | * [[Henry Miller]] | ||
+ | * [http://bukowski.net/ Charles Bukowski] | ||
+ | * [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2546.Chuck_Palahniuk 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== |
+ | *[[James Joyce]] | ||
+ | *[[Samuel Beckett]] | ||
+ | ==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== | ||
+ | *[[Leo Tolstoy]] | ||
+ | *[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] | ||
+ | *[[Boris Pasternak]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==German== | ||
+ | *[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] | ||
+ | *[[Thomas Mann]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==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]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==Canadian<ref>[https://www.thefamouspeople.com/canadian-novelists.php "Famous Canadian novelists]</ref>== | ||
+ | *[[Margaret Laurence]] | ||
+ | *[[Margaret Atwood]] | ||
+ | *[[Michael Ondaatje]] | ||
[[Category:Literature]] | [[Category:Literature]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==References== | ||
+ | {{reflist}} |
Revision as of 17:37, January 27, 2022
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.
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