ROMANCENOVEL
Romance novel
The romance novel or romantic novel is a literary genre. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late 20th and early 21st centuries, these novels are commercially in two main varieties: category romances, which are shorter books with a one-month shelf-life, and single-title romances, which are generally longer with a longer shelf-life. However in classical times, Romances were considered very basic literature and reading a romance a plebeian activity. Separate from their type, a romance novel can ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Romance novel
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