a novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction thats normally presented in prose and typically in a book. have you read a novel?
I've read a few! What type of novel is your favorite?
the book by ian watt called  the rise of a novel, it suggested that the novel first came into our world in the early 18th century.
Oh really? I didn't know novels have been around for so long! How is a novel created?
author of "Don Quixote" (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era. Ian Watt, in "The Rise of the Novel" (1957), suggested that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century.
Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance,
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