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analect

excerpt anthology {analect}.

anthology

previously-published-works collection {anthology}|.

archive

historical and/or rare documents {archive}|.

chronicle

narrative history {chronicle}.

commonplace book

Notebooks {commonplace book} can contain photographs and other personal-interest items.

compendium

works collection {compendium}|.

compilation

works collection {compilation}.

diary

Books {diary} can describe writer's days.

digest

short abridgement {digest}.

emblem book

Books {emblem book} can explain drawings.

primer book

elementary-student textbook or introductory book {primer, book}.

screenplay

film text {screenplay}.

semidocumentary

Documentaries {semidocumentary} can include fictional or imagined historical events.

source book

Historical, literary, or religious works {source book} can be for reference.

trilogy

three related works {trilogy}.

utopia

ideal-society description {utopia}.

2-Literature-Prose-Kinds-Book-Fiction

bestiary

Books {bestiary} can be about animals, illustrating moral principles.

bilddungsroman

Novels {bilddungsroman} {Erziehungsroman} can be about main-character maturation.

epistolary novel

Novels {epistolary novel} can be letters.

fictional biography

Biographies {fictional biography} can be plausible life recreations.

Gothic novel

Novels {Gothic novel} can use horror.

historical novel

Novels {historical novel} can be about historical people and actual settings.

horse opera

western drama {horse opera}.

kunstlerroman

Novels {kunstlerroman} can be about artist development.

novel

Fiction {novel} can have more than 200 pages, with developed plot and fully described characters.

novelette

Short novels {novelette} can have 50 to 100 pages.

novella

During late Middle Ages and Renaissance, people wrote down epic poems about heroes or lovers of European nations, far away lands, or fantasy lands in prose {novella} in the national language. Short novel can have 100 to 200 pages.

picaresque novel

Novels {picaresque novel} can involve nice rogues who escape dull middle-class life in exciting episodes. This novel form started in 16th century Spain as chivalry burlesques.

potboiler

sensational and commercial book {potboiler}.

psychological novel

Novels {psychological novel} can explore hero mental patterns, as in Dostoevski's works.

roman a clef

Novels {roman a clef} can be about contemporary figures but with names changed.

romance

During and after Renaissance, prose stories {romance} with heroic and romantic themes had contemporary characters, who underwent character development.

saga

long narrative {saga}.

science fiction

future story {science fiction}.

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almanac

annual fact book {almanac}|.

annals

society-member reports {annals}.

atlas of maps

map book {atlas, book}|.

autobiography

People can write biographies {autobiography}| about selves.

biography

Nonfiction can be life stories {biography}|.

black book

address book {black book}.

breviary

prayer and hymn book {breviary}.

catalog

collection contents or index {catalog}.

conspectus

library-collection description {conspectus}.

cyclopedia

encyclopedia {cyclopedia}.

directory book

alphabetical names, telephone numbers, and/or addresses {directory, book}.

encyclopedia

many alphabetical articles {encyclopedia}|.

hagiography

Biographies {hagiography} can be about saints.

ledger

account book {ledger}.

log record

event record {log, record}.

memoir

Nonfiction can recount {memoir}| writer's life in a historical period.

missal

prayer and response book {missal}.

pandect

law or legal-code digest {pandect}.

pharmacopoeia

drug, preparation, and dosage list {pharmacopoeia}.

thesaurus

synonym book {thesaurus}|.

tome

long nonfiction book {tome}.

travelogue

Nonfiction books or films {travelogue} can be about journeys.

treatise

Books {treatise} can contain complete subject knowledge.

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