I read a ton of novels. They are long works of narrative fictions
Oh I love books especially fictional. Do you have any favorites?
I love the Great Gatsby. The genre has been around for about two thousand years with origins in Rome and Greece.
I read that back when I was in school. I found it pretty good. I wasn't aware they were writing narrative fictions way back then.
Ian Watt suggested that the novel first came from the early 18th century. So pretty old!
Oh that's shocking. I wasn't aware of that. So what other things do you enjoy about reading?
I really like just being able to escape to a different world.
I don't blame you. It's a great escape to imagine that you're immersed in a completely different place.
which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick", are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel
. I thought it couldn't fail. Here we had one of the most popular characters in mystery fiction; everybody has read a Rex Stout novel. The books still sell, although they were written 50 years ago. But do you know how long we lasted? Just 13 weeks. Try to figure that one out.
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