2006-12-22 14:05:31 · 15 answers · asked by ? 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
A novel is a relatively long, fictional prose narrative with a more or less complex plot or pattern of events about human beings, their thoughts, etc. Novels are often published in book form.
A book is writing on paper between protective covers, distinguished by length from a magazine, tract, etc. It may be either literary or scientific in nature.
Thus a novel is a type of literature, but a book is not.
2006-12-22 14:14:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A book is anything that contains pages, with words in it. Anything from the dictionary to the bible is a book. A novel is usually a fictional story and usually has less than 100 pages in it. Many children's books are novels.
Here is the Wikipedia definition for the word "novel":
"A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. The English word "novel" derives from the Italian word novella, meaning "a tale, a piece of news." The novel is longer (at least 40,000 words) and more complex than either the short story or the novella, and is not bound by the structural and metrical restrictions of plays or poetry"
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2006-12-22 14:07:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
A novel is a really really long story with chapters
A book can be anything. Like it could be a babie's book or it could be something like Harry Potter
but a novel HAS to be long to be considered a novel
2006-12-22 14:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A novel is a story of sorts, a work of fiction based on someone's imagination; non-fiction is based on facts. A book is a bound collection of pages containing information. A novel is a book, but a book may not be a novel.
2006-12-22 14:12:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A book could be on any specific subject eg cooking to a dictionary. A novel is a fictional story with characters, and it has a story line / plot.
2006-12-22 14:08:47 · answer #5 · answered by Bru 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A book is anything bound with pages. A novel is a work of fiction.
2006-12-22 14:06:42 · answer #6 · answered by BAnne 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A novel tells a story. A book can be anything..A text, the Bible, a dictionary, etc...
2006-12-22 14:08:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a novel is a book, but all books aren't novels. Like a cookbook would never be a novel.
2006-12-22 14:07:13 · answer #8 · answered by bymyshoes 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
novels are usually over 500 pages books r anywhere from picture book 2 499
2006-12-22 14:09:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anything can be a book: reference, children;'s stories, medical text.
A novel is specifically a fictionalized story
2006-12-22 14:09:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋