Encyclopaedic Biographies Of World Great Novelists

A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late' 18th century. Functionality and the presentation in a narrative are the two features most commonly invoked to distinguish novels from histories. in a historical perspective they are problematic criteria. Histories were supposed to be narrative projects throughout the