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A '''novel''' (from French ''nouvelle'' Italian "novella", "new") is an extended, generally [[fiction]]al [[narrative]], typically in [[prose]]. Until the [[eighteenth century]], the word referred specifically to [[short fiction]]s of [[love]] and intrigue as opposed to ''[[romance (genre)|romance]]s'', which were [[epic poetry|epic]]-length works about love and [[adventure]]. Literary theory of genres has not yet managed to isolate a "single definite, stable characteristic of the novel" that holds without reservations.<ref>Bakhtin 1981, pp.8-9</ref>

A '''novel''' (from French ''nouvelle'' Italian "novella", "new") is an extended, generally [[fiction]]al [[narrative]], typically in [[prose]]. Until the [[eighteenth century]], the word referred specifically to [[short fiction]]s of [[love]] and intrigue as opposed to ''[[romance (genre)|romance]]s'', which were [[epic poetry|epic]]-length works about love and [[adventure]]. Literary theory of genres has not yet managed to isolate a "single definite, stable characteristic of the novel" that holds without reservations.<ref>Bakhtin 1981, pp.8-9</ref>