Sentence examples for novel from high-quality English sources.

• Some early critics cast the novel as a satire.

• Many characters in the novel are born into slavery.

• The “financial novel” wrings drama from stock prices.

• The story behind the novel is as famous as the novel itself.

• A later adventure novel, To the White Sea (1993), also was…

• The language and descriptions in the novel are often hard to read.

• In 2015 Harper Lee published a second novel titled Go Set a Watchman.

• It was the first novel to be published by a Harlem Writers Guild member.

Use novel in a sentence.

• He was best remembered for his three-volume novel Le Roman comique (1651–59; “The Comic Novel”).

• The specific form of this novel is known as 'Bildungsroman' – 'bildung' means education and 'roman' means novel in German.

• "The point of this is that it's about language, about all the things a novel can do, not just some of the things a novel can do.

• It became a traditional novel form in German literature, and the German word for this type of novel, Bildungsroman (meaning “novel of educational formation”), was absorbed into English.

• A degenerating research programme, on the other hand (unlike the theories of Newton and Einstein) either fails to predict novel facts at all, or makes novel predictions that are systematically falsified.

• The novel, which is nonlinear, begins with a man discovering that the copy of a novel he has recently purchased and is about to begin reading is defective, a Polish novel having been bound within its pages.

• The Pointless presenter’s novel sold more than 45,000 copies in just three days on sale, becoming the fastest selling debut crime novel, and the second fastest selling adult debut novel since Nielsen BookScan’s records began.

• New kinds of fiction fill in the gaps, like the novel of negritude, the structuralist novel (following the linguistic sociologists and anthropologists), the homosexual novel, the novel of drug hallucination, and so on.

novel sentence examples

• Other categories of fictional art include the erotic novel (which may or may not be pornographic), the satirical novel, the farcical novel, the novel for or about children, the theological novel, the allegorical novel, and so on.

• Money in the Morgue is a particular kind of crime novel: a traditional golden age-style crime novel that also falls into the subgenre of “continuation novel”, written by Stella Duffy and featuring Ngaio Marsh’s beloved detective, Inspector Roderick Alleyn of the Metropolitan Police.

• Traveller of the Century is a novel of ideas, but it is also a conventional love story between conventionally unconventional people; it is a novel about history, but never just a historical novel; it is a novel about politics of the past that continuously and unashamedly comments on present politics.

• Among them are the historical novel, novels of place, the psychological novel, novels about growing up and education, epistolary novels (in which the story is told through an exchange of letters), the roman à clef (which requires a “key,” or supplementary information, for fuller understanding), the cult novel, the proletarian novel, and the modern antinovel.