tell me more about novel
I love novels! They're usually longer works of fiction.
when was the word first discovered
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book.
The entire genre has been seen as having "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella. (Since the 18th century, the term "novella", or "novelle" in German, has been used in English
the fiction and essays for which he was known.
Baldwin's second novel, "Giovanni's Room", caused great controversy when it was first published in 1956 due to its explicit homoerotic content. Baldwin was again resisting labels with the publication of this work. Despite the reading public's expectations that he would publish works dealing with the African-American experience, "Giovanni's Room" is predominantly about white characters. Baldwin's next two novels, "Another Country" (1962) and "Tell Me How Long