The Place of the Novel on the Christian’s Book List
Fiction is often defined as that form of prose narrative in which the characters, scenes, and incidents are partly or entirely imaginary. The novel and the romance are the two kinds of fiction, although they are not often consistently differentiated. There is, however, a slight difference between a novel and a romance. A novel deals with characters and events that are strictly in keeping with events in ordinary society and history. In a romance, the scenes, characters, and incidents are...