Novels

British  

/ ˈnɒvəlz /

plural noun

1. Roman law the new statutes of Justinian and succeeding emperors supplementing the Institutes, Digest, and Code: now forming part of the Corpus Juris Civilis

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Etymology

Origin of Novels

Latin Novellae ( constitūtiōnēs ) new (laws)

Example Sentences

She penned several novels during their marriage, including the 1988 Family Business about a multi-generational media dynasty.

From BBC

Beginning in the 1980s, she published three novels: “In Her Own Image,” “Family Business” and “Coming to Terms.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Christie is the world's best-selling author of all time and is known for her 66 detective novels, including Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.

From BBC

Tolstoy’s great novels, “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina,” are all about the journeys of his major figures from self-doubt and selfishness to a higher moral plane, not always successfully — he himself was so doubtful about whether he had accurately traced their trajectories that toward the end of his life he disavowed those great works as inadequate.

From Los Angeles Times

All is imaginatively recreated, and minutely detailed, as in one of his uncle’s historical novels.

From The Wall Street Journal