novel

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:34 AM -0800 2/25/10, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>"Snoopy and the Red Baron" was actually a stand-alone, illustrated
>story, not a collection of comic strips. It's still not anything I'd
>have considered a novel (any more than I'd consider "Make Way for
>Ducklings" a novel), though.
>
>Jeff Prucher
>

Right, that's more of a novella.

LH

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>>  From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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>>  Subject: Re: novel
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>>  No real surprise, but now extended to include (surely under the influence of
>>  _graphic novel_) bound collections of loosely-connected comic strips:
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>>  2007 Wade L. Eakle in _Over the Front_ (League of WWI Aviation Historians)
>>  XXII 365 [Google Books]:  The next year, Schulz published his first
>>  full-length novel, entitled Snoopy and the Red Baron, followed by a sequel
>>  in 1969 that he called Snoopy and his Sopwith Camel.
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>>  JL
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