NOVELS

Nowadays, most number of people love to read novels related to adventure, romance, mystery, biography and other related topics. But books have also a history in the world. There have been movies which are adapted from novels. Firstly, in Europe, novels began to be written in the seventeenth century, but really flowered from the eighteenth century. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1709) was issued in six volumes, but due to its cost, people couldn’t buy. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) was an epistolary novel, i.e., novel which was written in the form of a series of letters. Novels were also written in Industrial Revolution such as Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Hard Times and Emile Zola’s Germinal. Novels wre also written in domestic forms for women such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847) and many other related novels. In India, novels began to be written in the seventeenth century, as in Europe. There were novels related to Nationalism in India. Some novels were related to upper-class people such as O.Chandu Menon's Indulekha but some some novels were related to lower-class people such as PotheriKunjambu's Saraswativijayam. Now a days, majority of Indians read books of European writers, e.g., Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga series, John Green's The Fault In Our Stars but they also read books of Indian writers such as Chetan Bhagat's 2 States, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies.