Collocations withnovel
These are words often used in combination withnovel.
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adult novel
Sometimes, the term problem novel is used almost interchangeably with young adult novel, but many young adult novels do not fit these criteria.
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autobiographical novel
The book is now considered an autobiographical novel rather than a strict autobiography.
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best-selling novel
The success of that serialization led the book, when published, to become the second best-selling novel in 1937 and fifth best for the year 1938.
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classic novel
It is the third adaptation of the correspondent classic novel.
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contemporary novel
Each set of selections comprises one classic and one contemporary novel or novella.
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crime novel
Each crime novel or series explores a foreign country or exotic culture.
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debut novel
The inspiration for his debut novel is the cancer-stricken brother of one of his students.
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detective novel
Law and crime, theology and sin, evil in its human and eschatological manifestations, are all inextricably linked in the detective novel.
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epistolary novel
As an epistolary novel, the book is composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other.
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fantasy novel
It begins as a fantasy novel, then develops characteristics generally attributed to science fiction novels.
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full-length novel
She continued to write and her first full-length novel was published at the age of twenty.
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gothic novel
The scenarios of the gothic novel were not new, nor was the broader treatment of the subject of science.
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historical novel
Sublime genres, such as the ode, the historical novel, and the heroic biography, were in demand in many empires.
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horror novel
It only became a horror novel on the second or the third reading.
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later novel
Its relation to the later novel has still not been satisfactorily explained.
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modern novel
It is the "trashy modern novel," or at least the sensational success, which carries the losses on the portentous and no doubt more worthy works.
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mystery novel
It was suddenly and simultaneously a trauma memoir, mystery novel, espionage thriller, confessional, legal brief, episodic history, cautionary tale, and work of fantasy.
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paperback novel
One can walk out the door with a paperback novel-size package of strip stamps in one's pocket, and one has £50,000.
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popular novel
In the body of the reports on trials key figures were occasionally described in terms that would not have disgraced a popular novel.
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published novel
It was his first published novel and remains his most famous work.
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pulp novel
Many of the pulp novels typically presented very unhappy women, or relationships that ended tragically.
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realist novel
Here the chronicle is the training ground for narration, which is later re-inscribed into the magical realist novel.
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realistic novel
This was the era of both the realistic novel and of a photographic realism in the visual arts.
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romance novel
She then wrote her first romance novel, which was rejected by publishers.
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sentimental novel
The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is a genre which developed during the second half of the 18th century.
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spy novel
I thought that that long document, from which he was reading, which purported to be a speech, was the most exciting chapter of a spy novel.
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stand-alone novel
That could have worked fine if this was a stand-alone novel.
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subsequent novel
The novelist, for example, may sell 3,000 copies of a first or subsequent novel which can be borrowed about 117,000 times from libraries—that is the average calculation.
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suspense novel
It is a supernatural/suspense novel which tells the story of a girl with a psychic gift.
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