Novel

Novels are books that have one long story written in them. They are works of prose fiction and are longer than short stories and novellas.

"The Lighthouse at the End of the World" is a novel by Jules Verne, who is considered as the father of science fiction.

There are many kinds of novels. For example, some are adventure stories, like Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. There are horror stories like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There are also science fiction novels like Dune by Frank Herbert, and humorous novels like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Novels in English are usually at least 60,000 words long. Some are much longer, at 150,000 words or more. Novels usually have 100 pages or more.

The first novels were written more than three hundred years ago. Some people say that Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is the first novel; it was first published in 1605.

Genres of novels

There are many different genres, or categories, of novels. Some of these are:

• Campus
• Crime fiction
• Fantasy
• Gothic
• Horror
• Romance
• Spy
• Thriller
• Science fiction
• Speculative
• Westerns
• Picaresque
• Gothic Novel
• Sentimental Novel
• Weird fiction