What's the difference between a novel and a book?

Answer 1

A novel is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. Until the eighteenth century, the word referred specifically to short fictions of love and intrigue as opposed to romances, which were epic-length works about love and adventure. Novels are characterized by 60,000-200,000 words in length, or 300-1,300 pages, in length. During the 18th century the novel adopted features of the old romance and became one of the major literary genres. It is today defined mostly by its ability to become the object of literary criticism demanding artistic merit and a specific 'literary' style—or specific literary styles.

A book is a collection of paper, parchment or other material with text, pictures, or both written on them, usually bound together along one edge within covers. A book is also a literary work or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers.

Answer 2

A novel is essentially a story. It's usually a work of fiction but it can be based on factual events. A book is the generic term for anything that is a bunch of pages surrounded by a cover. A book could be a novel, an autobiography, an atlas, a reference book, a dictionary, some sort of instruction manual such as a cookery book or a 'how to paint in oils' book. A book can be about anything at all.

Answer 3

A novel is a kind of book. This is what I got from wikipedia. Sounds reasonable:A novel (from French nouvelle Italian "novella", "new") is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. Until the eighteenth century, the word referred specifically to short fictions of love and intrigue as opposed to romances, which were epic-length works about love and adventure. Literary theory of genres has not yet managed to isolate a "single definite, stable characteristic of the novel" that holds without reservations.[1]

Answer 4

None. The Novel is a book. The genre doesn't matter.

Answer 5

a novel is just one type of book. book is like umbrella under which there are many types of texts including the bible and all those texts you have read.
check dictionary too.

Answer 6

A novel is sort of long I think

Answer 7

a novel is fiction, a book can be about anything.