TYPES_OF_NOVELS

                  TYPES OF NOVELS

✍Adventure novel

A novel where exciting events are more important than character development and sometimes theme. Adventure novels are sometimes described as "fiction" rather than "literature" in order to distinguish books designed for mere entertainment rather than thematic importance. Examples:
Alexandre Dumas-The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas-The Count of Monte Cristo.,

✍Autobiographical novel

A novel based on the author's life experience. More common that a thoroughly autobiographical novel is the incluision of autobiographical elements among other elements.
Joyce- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,Thomas Wolfe.,

✍Adventure novel

A novel focusing on the solving of a crime, often by a brilliant detective, and usually employing the elements of mystery and suspense.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-The Hound of the Baskervilles,Agatha Christie- Murder on the Orient Express.,

✍Dystopian novel

An anti-utopian novel where, instead of a paradise, everything has gone wrong in the attempt to create a perfect society.
George Orwell- Nineteen Eighty-Four,Aldous Huxley-Brave New World.,

✍Epistolary novel

A novel consisting of letters written by a character or several characters. The form allows for the use of multiple points of view toward the story and the ability to dispense with an omniscient narrator.
Samuel Richardson- Pamela,C. S. Lewis-The Screwtape Letters.,

✍Gothic novel

A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terror pervades the action. The setting is often a dark, mysterious castle, where ghosts and sinister humans roam menacingly.
Horace Walpole-The Castle of Otranto,Mary Shelley-Frankenstein.,

✍Historical novel

A novel where fictional characters take part in actual historical events and interact with real people from the past.
Sir Walter Scott- Ivanhoe, Waverly and James Fenimore Cooper- Last of the Mohicans.,

✍Picaresque novel

An episodic, often autobiographical novel about a rogue or picaro (a person of low social status) wandering around and living off his wits. The wandering hero provides the author with the opportunity to connect widely different pieces of plot, since the hero can wander into any situation.
Daniel Defoe- Moll Flanders,Miguel de Cervantes- Don Quixote

✍Science fiction novel

A novel in which futuristic technology or otherwise altered scientific principles contribute in a significant way to the adventures. Often the novel assumes a set of rules or principles or facts and then traces their logical consequences in some form.
H. G. Wells-The Invisible Man, Aldous Huxley-Brave New World.

✍Sentimental novel

A type of novel, popular in the eighteenth century, that overemphasizes emotion and seeks to create emotional responses in the reader. The type also usually features an overly optimistic view of the goodness of human nature.
Oliver Goldsmith-The Vicar of Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie-The Man of Feeling

✍Sequel

A novel incorporating the same characters and often the same setting as a previous novel. Sometimes the events and situations involve a continuation of the previous novel and sometimes only the characters are the same and the events are entirely unrelated to the previous novel.
Mark Twain- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Margaret Mitchell-Gone With the Wind.,

✍Utopian novel

A novel that presents an ideal society where the problems of poverty, greed, crime, and so forth have been eliminated.
Thomas More-Utopia, Samuel Butler-Erewhon.