Books {bestiary} can be about animals, illustrating moral principles.
Novels {bilddungsroman} {Erziehungsroman} can be about main-character maturation.
Novels {epistolary novel} can be letters.
Biographies {fictional biography} can be plausible life recreations.
Novels {Gothic novel} can use horror.
Novels {historical novel} can be about historical people and actual settings.
western drama {horse opera}.
Novels {kunstlerroman} can be about artist development.
Fiction {novel} can have more than 200 pages, with developed plot and fully described characters.
Short novels {novelette} can have 50 to 100 pages.
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.
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.
sensational and commercial book {potboiler}.
Novels {psychological novel} can explore hero mental patterns, as in Dostoevski's works.
Novels {roman a clef} can be about contemporary figures but with names changed.
During and after Renaissance, prose stories {romance} with heroic and romantic themes had contemporary characters, who underwent character development.
long narrative {saga}.
future story {science fiction}.
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