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  2. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Non-fiction novel; Reference work: publication that one can refer to for confirmed facts, such as a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, almanac, or atlas. Self-help: a work written with information intended to instruct or guide readers on solving personal problems. Obituary

  3. The Tunnel (Gass novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Tunnel's 652 pages are divided into twelve main sections. In a 1995 radio interview at KCRW with Michael Silverblatt, Gass stated that the difficulty of the novel's early sections, which are introduced by a quote from Anaxagoras ("The descent to hell is the same from every place"), serve as both a false beginning to The Tunnel (the introduction Kohler is writing and his digging project ...

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  5. Novel - Wikipedia

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    The rise of the word "novel" at the cost of its rival, the romance, remained a Spanish and English phenomenon, and though readers all over Western Europe had welcomed the novel(la) or short history as an alternative in the second half of the 17th century, only the English and the Spanish had openly discredited the romance. [citation needed]

  6. Historical fiction - Wikipedia

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    Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.

  7. Literature - Wikipedia

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    A notable example of censorship is James Joyce's novel Ulysses, which has been described by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov as a "divine work of art" and the greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. [155] It was banned in the United States from 1921 until 1933 on the grounds of obscenity. Nowadays it is a central literary text in ...

  8. Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Wikipedia

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    This part, which one critic called "the last 19th-century Russian novel", [8] takes up nearly half the book. Throughout this part of the novel, the many passages depicting the blossoming of Van and Ada's love vary in rhythm, style and vocabulary—ranging from lustrous, deceptively simple yet richly sensual prose to leering and Baroque satire ...

  9. Blackout/All Clear - Wikipedia

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    The diptych won the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel, [2] the 2011 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, [3] and the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] These two volumes are the most recent of four books and a short story that Willis has written involving time travel from Oxford during the mid-21st century, [ 6 ] all of which won ...