"Chapter book", "novel"

[Dave Wilton]

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> Of Douglas G. Wilson
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> Subject: "Chapter book", "novel"
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> >If it ain't poetry and it fills a book, it's a "novel," ....
>
> It may be that the defining characteristic of a "novel" in this sense is
> its lack of illustrations.

My apologies, if this has been mentioned before, but it seems to me the
terms "fiction novel" and "non-fiction novel" may be influenced by (a
misunderstanding of) "historical novel."

--Dave Wilton
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