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According to The Shorter Oxford Dictionary, novel is
“a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in
which characters and actions representative of real life are
portrayed in a plot of more or less complexity. Novel is “a piece of prose fiction of a reasonable length”. Both the definitions highlight the
word ‘prose’ meaning the common or ordinary spoken
form of language without the presence of poetic rhythmic
structure. However, there are a few novels written in
verse as well, such as Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate
and Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegi. The other aspect
of the definition is related to the length. T
The word novel is considered to have been derived
from the latin word novellus, Italian word novella (which
meant a little new thing) and French word novelle. It was
Boccaccio who first used the term novella storia (short
tale in prose) when he first experimented writing prose.
With the rise in the
development of novels in the 18th century the meaning of
the word novel underwent changes from short tale in prose
to ‘prose narrative of considerable length’ as stated by
The Shorter Oxford Dictionary.

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