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lvcha问：

对了。novel fiction 有啥区别？

用googole搜索what’s the differnce between novel and fiction

这里主要是说novel和book的区别 http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200...

我还不知道有novella这个词呢： http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=...

想看小说没有reading list么，这个可能有帮助 I have located several lists of great books and novels: http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=thre...

但我更推荐直接去Project Gutenberg找。 http://www.gutenberg.org/

现在继续回答问题。网上没有好答案。我们用wordnet来查查看。

fiction

The noun fiction has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (14) fiction — (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact) 2. fabrication, fiction, fable — (a deliberately false or improbable account)

novel

The noun novel has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (17) novel — (an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story)
2. novel — (a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; “his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels”; “he burned all the novels”)

The adj novel has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (6) fresh, new, novel — (original and of a kind not seen before; “the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem”)
2. novel, refreshing — (pleasantly new or different; “common sense of a most refreshing sort”)

看novel第2个sense。说是extended work of ficiton。基本可以理解为在长度上有区别的。这里的extended是专指长度么？那么根据yahoo answer中有人的答案，看来字数可以成为一个不严格的分界线。6000字？还是应该多少字呢？

还有，

lvcha sez:

fiction是小说，包括各种杂七杂八的yellow，violence。。monster。。？ novel是长篇小说或者严肃点算是文学的小说？

novel也可以杂七杂八 感觉这两个基本通用 但 和ficiton对应的有non-ficiton 所以分类图书时候对应是小说类和非小说类 而novel没有这个用法，不能用non-novel 呵呵，这个解释不错 我加上

大家怎么看？