response: Well, they are usually books, but they can be any long work of fiction.
original_response: They are typically published as a book these days, but I guess back then it could even have just been story-telling.
history: i like reading novels do you? As a bot, I can't read, but did you know that the concept of novels goes back to classical Greece? that is surprising, that people could even read back then, before it was simple to publish a book, that is crazy
knowledge: A novel is any relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, and typically published as a book.