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| Home > Forms of Literature > Essay
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| | Essay - Forms of Literature
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An essay consists of discussion of a topic from an author"s personal point of view, exemplified best in two works of Charles Lamb and Francis Bacon.
Michel de Montaigne is considered to be the father of this genre his, self reflective musings can be called the `essays`.
Genre related to the essay many include the memoir - telling the story of an author"s life from his personal point of view, the Epistle - form of didactic letter.
A novel is a long story written in prose. It gives the author freedom to allow him to experiment with various literary styles in one single novel. Boccacio`s Decameron, Chaucer`s Cantebury tales would classify as novels if written today. Cervantes wrote perhaps the first influential novel Don Quixote.
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