a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some

degree of realism

Epic poetry exhibits some similarities with the novel, and the Western tradition of the novel reaches
back into the field of verse epics, though again not in an unbroken tradition. The epics of Asia, such
as the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (13001000 BC), and Indian epics such as the Ramayana (400
BCE and 200 CE), and Mahabharata (4th century BC) were as unknown in early modern Europe as
was the Anglo-Saxon epic of Beowulf (c.7501000 AD), which was rediscovered in the late 18th
century and early 19th century. Other non-European works, such as the Torah, the Koran, and
the Bible, are full of stories, and thus have also had a significant influence on the development of
prose narratives, and therefore the novel. Then at the beginning of the 18th century, French prose
translations brought Homer's works to a wider public, who acc
The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a fictitious
narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents",
whereas in the novel "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the
modern state of society".[3] However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scot

The bridge is one of four on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. The
other bridges are the Vidyasagar Setu (popularly called the Second Hooghly Bridge), the Vivekananda
Setu, and the newly built Nivedita Setu. It weathers the storms of the Bay of Bengal region, carrying a
daily traffic of approximately 100,000 vehicles[11] and possibly more than 150,000 pedestrians,[9] easily
making it the busiest cantilever bridge in the world.[12] The third-longest cantilever bridge at the time of
its construction,[