The term "novel" originates from the production of short stories, or novella that remained part of a European oral culture of storytelling into the late 19th century. Fairy tales, jokes, and humorous stories designed to make a point in a conversation, and the exemplum a priest would insert in a sermon belong into this tradition. Written collections of such stories circulated in a wide range of products from practical compilations of examples designed for the use of clerics to compilations of various stories such as Boccaccio's Decameron (1354) and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1386–1400). The Decameron was a compilation of one hundred novelle told by ten people—seven women and three men—fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Floren...
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld stories can be seen as a roman fleuve, a novel sequence. There are sever...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Stories have been the source of moral lessons and entertainment, as far as the humankind of all the ...
Novels, of any time, carry certain stories related to reality. The earlier forms of the Novel, Alleg...
While prose rather than verse became the standard of the modern novel, the ancestors of the modern E...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
In the history of English novels there is a pattern so fondly employed by many novelists, which is t...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
The modern distinction between history and fiction did not exist in the early sixteenth century and ...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld stories can be seen as a roman fleuve, a novel sequence. There are sever...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Stories have been the source of moral lessons and entertainment, as far as the humankind of all the ...
Novels, of any time, carry certain stories related to reality. The earlier forms of the Novel, Alleg...
While prose rather than verse became the standard of the modern novel, the ancestors of the modern E...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
In the history of English novels there is a pattern so fondly employed by many novelists, which is t...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
The modern distinction between history and fiction did not exist in the early sixteenth century and ...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld stories can be seen as a roman fleuve, a novel sequence. There are sever...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...
Early novels See also: Ancient Greek novel and Byzantine novel Paper as the essential carrier: Muras...