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novel

/ˈnɑvəl/ noun C2
  1. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
  2. A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.

Plural novels

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“Without reckoning,” added Monte Cristo, “that he is on the eve of entering into a sort of speculation already in vogue in the United States and in England, but quite novel in France.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 961 · C1
“This is certainly very novel,” said he.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 70 · C1
“I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel,” said our visitor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 40 · C1
Someone in a novel, was he not?
The Valley of Fear, p. 16 · C1

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