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...