Last Seen Wearing (Dexter novel) — Infobox Book | name = Last Seen Wearing image caption = The cover of 1st edition author = Colin Dexter illustrator = cover artist = John Thompson country = United Kingdom language = English series = Inspector Morse series, #2 genre = crime novel… … Wikipedia
Novel — Nov el, a. [OF. novel, nuvel, F. nouvel, nouveau, L. novellus, dim. of novus new. See {New}.] Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising. [1913 Webster] Note: In civil law,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Novel assignment — Novel Nov el, a. [OF. novel, nuvel, F. nouvel, nouveau, L. novellus, dim. of novus new. See {New}.] Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising. [1913 Webster] Note: In civil … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
novel — novel1 novellike, adj. /nov euhl/, n. 1. a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes. 2. (formerly) novella (def. 1). [1560 70; … Universalium
Novel — For other uses, see Novel (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Novell. New novels in a Oldenburg bookshop, February 2009 … Wikipedia
novel — Postwar fiction of the 1950s and early 1960s was characterized by novels of class mobility, sexual adventure and realist aesthetics. Women were still under represented in publishers’ prestigious fiction lists, but influential texts appeared… … Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture
novel — The establishment of the Franco regime at the end of the Civil War had negative consequences for all cultural activity, not least the novel. Those pre war novelists who were not dead or exiled found themselves, for the most part, reduced to… … Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture
novel — I nov•el [[t]ˈnɒv əl[/t]] n. lit. a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usu. presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes • Etymology: 1560–70; < It novella (storia) new kind … From formal English to slang
novel — I. /ˈnɒvəl / (say novuhl) noun 1. a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length, usually having a plot that is developed by the actions, thoughts, speech, etc., of the characters. 2. Obsolete a short story or a novella. {Italian novella,… …
Cultural references to the novel The Catcher in the Rye — The 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger has had a lasting influence[1][2] as it remains both a bestseller[3] and a frequently challenged book.[3][4] … Wikipedia
