novel-form

Updated: May 19, 2025

For it will be almost the equivalent of an additional novel of its author's own a William Makepeace Thackeray in the familiar novel-form of title, and in the old Richardsonian form of contents but oh! how different from anything of Richardson's save that it might possibly make you hang yourself, not because you could not get to the story, but because you had come to the end of it.

George Saintsbury - A Letter Book: Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing