serialized novel
Story by chapters
A serialized novel is a long work of fiction published in installments over time rather than as a complete book.
Many 19th-century novels first appeared this way in magazines or newspapers—Dickens's works were famously serialized.
The format creates natural cliffhangers and allows reader response to shape the story: She followed the serialized novel week by week.
- television seriesSerialized broadcast entertainment program
- installmentPeriodic partial payment
- cliffhangerSuspenseful unresolved ending
- seriesOrdered set of related items
- magazineBound periodical with articles
soap opera · penny dreadfuls · Charles Dickens · to be continued · part one · foreshadowing · recurring motifs · continuity · newspaper · weekly installment · pacing · anticipation · plot twist · Alexandre Dumas · reading public · potboiler · Victorian era · Victorian England
- serialsserial, serials, series, periodicals, magazines
- Victorian novelsJane Eyre, Middlemarch, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, North and South
- fictionfiction, novels, novella, novellas, short story
- TV seriesTV series, drama series, sitcom, soap opera, miniseries
- book tradebook dealers, bookselling, bookseller, publisher, bookshops
- French RealismBalzac, Flaubert, Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola
serialized novelomnibus edition
Multiple works, one volume
collected edition · complete edition · boxed set · anthology · monograph
serialized novelshort story
Brief prose fiction
flash fiction · novella · one-shot · vignette · sketch