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The novel is the most spacious of literary forms, free to sprawl across hundreds of pages and, with them, across years or even generations. That sheer scale is its gift: there is room for dozens of characters, for tangled subplots that braid together and drift apart, for slow changes of heart that only a long…

• Which form stretches out to great length over many chapters?
• Which form must obey an unbending pattern of line and metre?