Distinguish between Epistolary and Serialised types of novels with examples.

(i) Epistolary novels were written in the forms of series of letters.

Examples: Samuel Richardson's-Pamela

(ii) Serialised novels were written in a format of a story which was published in instalments, i.e., each part in a new issue of a journal.

Example: Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers.

Epistolary novels use personal letters to tell the story e.g samuel richardson's pamela, while serislised novels publish each part of the story in a new journal to keep the suspense live.

1. It used the private and personal form of letters to tell the story.

2. It allowed the reader to relish the story at a time.

3.These novels were expensive.

4.Often it did not have illustration.

Serialised novel:

1. It told the stories in prose.

2. It allowed the readers to relish the suspense, discuss the characters of a novel and live for weeks with their stories.

3. Magazines were cheap which published the novels.

4. Serialised novels always had colourful illustrations.