❞ رواية The Thorn Birds ❝ ⏤ Colleen McCullough

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(Stories and novels) القصص والروايات
الرواية هي سرد نثري طويل يصف شخصيات خيالية أو واقعية وأحداثاً على شكل قصة متسلسلة، كما أنها أكبر الأجناس القصصية من حيث الحجم وتعدد الشخصيات وتنوع الأحداث، وقد ظهرت في أوروبا بوصفها جنساً أدبياً مؤثراً في القرن الثامن عشر، والرواية حكاية تعتمد السرد بما فيه من وصف وحوار وصراع بين الشخصيات وما ينطوي عليه ذلك من تأزم وجدل وتغذيه الأحداث
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance, which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.

A dictionary definition is "an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot."

The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella (a shorter novel), authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques.

    The Thorn Birds

On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday.
After the breakfast dishes were put away her mother silently thrust a 
brown paper parcel into her arms and ordered her outside. So
Meggie squatted down behind the gorse bush next to the front gate
and tugged impatiently. Her fingers were clumsy, the wrapping
heavy; it smelled faintly of the Wahine general store, which told her
that whatever lay inside the parcel had miraculously been bought,
not homemade or donated. Something fine and mistily gold began
to poke through a corner; she attacked the paper faster, peeling it
away in long, ragged strips. "Agnes! Oh, Agnes!" she said lovingly,
blinking at the doll lying there in a tattered nest. A miracle indeed.
Only once in her life had Meggie been into Wahine; all the way
back in May, because she had been a very good girl. So perched in
the buggy beside her mother, on her best behavior, she had been too
excited to see or remember much. Except for Agnes, the beautiful
doll sitting on the store counter, dressed in a crinoline of pink satin
with cream lace frills all over it. Right then and there in her mind
she had christened it Agnes, the only name she knew elegant
enough for such a peerless creature. Yet over the ensuing months
her yearning after Agnes contained nothing of hope; Meggie didn't
own a doll and had no idea little girls and dolls belonged together. 

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