Novel facts for kids
Novels are works of prose fiction. They are longer than short stories. There are many kinds. For example, some are adventures stories, like Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. There are horror (scary) stories like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There are also science fiction novels and humorous novels like Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Novels in English are usually 150,000 words or more, and have 150 pages or more.
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
Images for kids
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Paper as the essential carrier: Murasaki Shikibu writing her The Tale of Genji in the early 11th century, 17th-century depiction
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Chaucer reciting Troilus and Criseyde: early-15th-century manuscript of the work at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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1474: The customer in the copyist's shop with a book he wants to have copied. This illustration of the first printed German Melusine looked back to the market of manuscripts.
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Richard Head, The English Rogue (1665)
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1719 newspaper reprint of Robinson Crusoe
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Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol.6, pp. 70–71 (1769)
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Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1741)
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Intimate short stories: The Court and City Vagaries (1711).
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Image from a Victorian edition of Walter Scott's Waverley (1814)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vladivostok, 1995
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Chinua Achebe, Buffalo, 2008
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See also
In Spanish: Novela para niños
