The Rise of the Novel , suggested in
1957 that the novel first came into
being in the early 18th century.
Miguel de Cervantes , author of Don
Quixote (the first part of which was
published in 1605), is frequently
cited as the first significant

A novel is a relatively long work of
narrative fiction , normally in prose ,
which is typically published as a
book .
The genre has been described as
having "a continuous and
comprehensive history of about two
thousand years," [1] with its origins
in classical Greece and Rome , in
medieval and early modern romance ,
and in the tradition of the novella .
The latter, an Italian word for a
short story to distinguish it from a
novel, has been used in English since
the 18th century for a work that falls
somewhere in between. Ian Watt , in

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