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しょうせつ 小説
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Noun
1. novel; story; (work of) fiction​
    トム
  • は
  • しょうせつ小説
  • を
  • よ読んでいる
    • 。
Tom is reading a novel.
Wikipedia definition
2. Novel​A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century. Further definition of the genre is historically difficult.
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