[Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?

Mark Mandel mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jul 9 12:26:39 UTC 2018


I've read somewhere that the use of "novel" is spreading out, like soup
spilled on a tablecloth, to include any kind of fiction. Bleah!

Mark Mandel

On Jul 9, 2018 3:28 AM, "Charles C Doyle" <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

A website called "shortlist.com" lists among "the 30 greatest war novels of
all time" Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ (the trilogy, apparently).


--Charlie

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