Extended fictional narrative, prose form.

Fiction based on past events.

Brief narrative, fewer than novella.

Mystery fiction centered on investigation.

Dark, mysterious fiction with horror.

Adventure novel featuring roguish protagonist.

Fiction centered on solving crime.

Cheap, serialized, popular nineteenth-century fiction.

The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th- and 19th-century literary genre which presents and celebrates the concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility.

Novel composed of letters, documents.