About Novel

The word novel originally derived from the Latin novus, meaning ‘new’.

The first novel, called The Story of Genji, was written in 1007 by Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu.

The first novel sold through a vending machine—at the Paris Metro—was Murder on the Orient Express.

Ernest Vincent Wright’s 1939 novel Gadsby has 50,110 words, none of which contains the letter “e”.