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Novel
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.
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The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst.
Set in the United Kingdom in the early to mid-1980s, the story surrounds the post-Oxford life of the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest.
As the novel begins, Nick moves...
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- 2004
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Adam Bede
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in...
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- 1859
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Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons is a 1988 novel by American author Anne Tyler. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was also Time Magazine's book of the year.
It describes joys and pains of the ordinary marriage of Ira and Maggie Moran as they travel...
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- 1988
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The Zahir
The Zahir is a 2005 novel from the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho. Similarly to an earlier book, The Alchemist, the Zahir is about pilgrimage. The book touches on themes of love, loss and obsession.
The Zahir was written in Coelho's native language,...
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Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
The Curtain is a seven-part essay by Milan Kundera, along with The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed composing a type of trilogy of book-length essays on the European novel.
The Curtain was originally published as "Le Rideau", in French in...
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- Jan 2007
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The History of Henry Esmond
The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of...
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- 1852
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With 200 million copies sold, it is the most printed original English book, and among the most famous works of fiction.
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- 1859
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, concerning a fictional school massacre. It is written from the perspective of the killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her son Kevin and...
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- Apr 14, 2003
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To Live Again
To Live Again is a 1969 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg.
The book describes a world where all great scientists, economists, thinkers, builders and so on can store a "backup" of their personality (if they can afford the expensive procedure...
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- 1969
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- 1969
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- 11596
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Weir of Hermiston
Weir of Hermiston (1896) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Many have considered it his masterpiece. It was cut short by Stevenson's sudden death from a cerebral hemorrhage. The novel is set in Edinburgh and the Lothians at the time...
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- 1896
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- 1896
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- 175273
The Secret River
The Secret River, written by Kate Grenville in 2005, is a historical fiction about an early 19th century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story begins with an insightful flashback to England, and goes on to explore issues...
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- 2005
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The Bighead
The Bighead is a horror novel by writer Edward Lee, released in 1997. It concerns "The Bighead" a mentally challenged, inbred psychopath suffering hydrocephalus raging out in the Virginia backwoods, raping and killing whatever comes his way, and a...
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- 1997
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- Feb 1, 2000
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- 12215
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George and Rue
George and Rue (ISBN 978-0-00-225539-4 / ISBN 978-0-00-648569-8) is a novel by George Elliott Clarke, published in 2005 by HarperCollins Canada.
The novel is based on the true story of George and Rufus Hamilton, two Black Canadian brothers who...
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The Translator
The Translator is Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela's first novel, published in 1999. The Translator is a story about a young Sudanese widow living in Scotland and her sprouting relationship with Islamic scholar Rae Isles.
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- 1999
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In a Glass Darkly
In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death. The second and third are revised versions of previously published stories, and the fourth and fifth are long enough to...
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- 1872
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- 647273
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man is a 1981 novel by best-selling author Fannie Flagg. It was originally published under the title "Coming Attractions". The story is a series of diary entries that chronicle the main character's years growing up in...
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- 1981
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Restless
Restless, an espionage novel by William Boyd, was published in 2006 and won the Costa Prize for fiction. It is the story of a mother revealing to her daughter, in a series of written accounts, that she is not all that she seems to be. She is not...
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- Feb 17, 2005
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- Sep 2006
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- 173976
The Gum Thief
The Gum Thief is Canadian author Douglas Coupland's twelfth novel. It was published on September 25, 2007Â (2007-09-25), by Random House Canada in Canada and Bloomsbury Publishing in the United States.
An epistolary novel, The Gum Thief is written as...
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- Sep 25, 2007
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Twisted
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A Redbird Christmas
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Shotgun Alley
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The forgotten man
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Make Him Look Good
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The Garden of Lost and Found
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He drown she in the sea
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Winterton Blue
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Conjunctions
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Beat Collection
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The heir of Redclyffe
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The key
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Writing fiction
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