The English novel is an important part of English literature. This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have...
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A number of works of literature have been claimed to be the first novel in English. Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur (a.k.a. Le Morte Darthur), (written...
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a Malayalam-language film English (novel), a Chinese book by Wang Gang English (2018 film), a Chinese adaptation The English (TV series), a 2022 Western-genre...
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is a 1988 novel by English author Jilly Cooper. It is the second of the Rutshire Chronicles, a series of books set in the fictional English county of...
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A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The English word to describe such a work derives from...
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English (Chinese: 英格力士; pinyin: Yīng Gé Lìshì) is a 2004 Chinese coming-of-age novel by Wang Gang, about a boy growing up during the Cultural Revolution...
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English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1...
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English Music is the sixth novel by Peter Ackroyd. Published in 1992, it is both a bildungsroman and, in the words of critic John Barrell, "partly a series...
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Orbital is a 2023 novel by English writer Samantha Harvey that incorporates elements of science fiction, literary fiction, and philosophical drama, published...
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English, August: An Indian Story is a novel by Indian author Upamanyu Chatterjee. It is written in English and first published in 1988. The novel was...
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Bildungsroman (redirect from Coming-of-age novel)
world. Thomas Carlyle's English translation of Goethe's novel (1824) and his own Sartor Resartus (1833–34), the first English bildungsroman, inspired...
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The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian...
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Midnight's Children (redirect from Midnight’s Children (novel))
Indian English novel", to the extent that the decade after its 1981 publication has been called "post-Rushdie". During that decade, many novels inspired...
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (redirect from Tom Jones (novel))
as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published...
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Wuthering Heights (category 1847 British novels)
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families...
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The Blue Lagoon is a coming-of-age romance novel written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1908. The Blue Lagoon explores...
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Robinson Crusoe (redirect from Robinson Crusoe (novel))
Robinson Crusoe (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Written with a combination of epistolary...
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North and South is a social novel published in 1854–55 by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1866) and Cranford (1853), it is...
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Middlemarch (redirect from Middlemarch (novel))
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight installments (volumes)...
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The English Assassin is a 2002 spy novel by Daniel Silva. It is the second in the Gabriel Allon series. Art restorer, Gabriel Allon, who also works part-time...
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abbreviation of "raito noberu" is ranobe (ラノベ) or, in English, LN. The average length of a light novel is about 50,000 words, and is published in the bunkobon...
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Young adult literature (redirect from Young adult novel)
problem novel | literature". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 4 April 2018. Mona Scheuermann, Social Protest in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel. (Columbus...
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Brideshead Revisited (category English novels)
Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the...
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like thesis novel, propaganda novel, industrial novel, working-class novel and problem novel are also used to describe this type of novel; a recent development...
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Lord Jim (redirect from Lord Jim (novel))
Modern Library ranked Lord Jim 85th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Recovering from an injury, Jim seeks a position...
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Far from the Madding Crowd (redirect from Far from the Madding Crowd (novel))
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth published novel and his first major literary success. It was published on 23 November 1874...
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known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social...
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Fatherland is a 1992 alternative history detective novel by English writer and journalist Robert Harris. Set in a world where the Axis won World War II...
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British literature (category Use British English from May 2020)
regional literature Early Modern English English poetry English drama English novel List of English novelists List of English writers Literature of Northern...
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The Remains of the Day (redirect from The Remains of the Day (novel))
Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The novel tells, in first-person narration, the story of Stevens, an English butler who has dedicated his life to the...
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