Fiction

Fiction
Novel
• is the most popular form of writing today.
• It deals with a set of characters, characters are related by the action of the story, or the plot; and the emphasis of the novel may be on the events of the plot, or on the main character, the hero or heroine of the story, or upon the society of people with the novel treats.
• The length of a novel may vary from perhaps two hundred pages as in the case of Ethan Frome, to one thousand pages, as in the case of War and Peace.
• Daniel Defoe author of Robinson Crusoe was the first great novelist in English.

Short Story• As its name implies, is short-perhaps two or three pages, sometimes fifty pages.
• The “shortness,” however, is less a matter of absolute brevity than it is of being more limited in scope, and more compact in theme, than the novel.
• A master of the short story was Edgar Allan Poe, said that it should not contain a single word that was not absolutely necessary and appropriate to the whole.
• Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ring Lardner, and Ernest Hemingway are the great writers of short stories.