One feature that the novel has, which was absent in its predecessor the romance, is intimacy. Before the novel entered the scene tales were epic in scale and their protagonists were heroes in the true sense of the word! Novels, with their more down-to-earth style, had more relevance to their audience. Heroes had their own thoughts and anxieties which the reader was privy to for the first time and relationships grew between protagonists and readers which was private and personal.
Are you well read? Always have a novel on the go? If you think you have a good knowledge of novels then here's your chance to prove it! For starters, what was the working environment featured in Germinal? Or try this one - what kind of warship was the Caine in The Caine Mutiny? Still feel up to the challenge? Then have a go at this, the third in our series of four quizzes on novels.
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He's the leader of Fagin's gang in Oliver Twist
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Amongst Coelho's works are Veronika Decides to Die, The Devil and Miss Prym, The Valkyries and The Witch of Portobello
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Because of the violence in the book it has been controversial, with the Irish Times newspaper calling it "a work of unparalleled depravity"
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There are 6 novels in the series - The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington , and The Last Chronicle of Barset
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Karolides, the Greek Premier under threat, never appears himself in the novel and is only ever mentioned
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He's a mathematician working at Bletchley Park as a code-breaker
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It tells the story of a coalminers' strike in 1860s France and is regarded by many as Zola's best work
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It's commanded by the psychotic Captain Queeg
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The 1980 novel was made into a film in 1986 starring Sean Connery
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Rohmer's real name was Arthur Henry Ward
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