noveldom

It is almost as if it is a requirement for first time novelists to have written and published short stories before they are allowed to venture into noveldom.

Southern Living « So Many Books 2004

I realize my reading recommendations and my jokes, and my blog posts, and my ... are nothing if not repetitive, but Thomas-Hanno in Mann's Buddenbrooks must be considered among the two or three greatest depictions of father-son relationships in all of noveldom.

FATHERS & SONS TEV 2005

I think that they had better metamorphose all such aspiring heroes of universal noveldom into man weather-cocks, as they used to put heroes among the constellations, and let them swing round there till they are rusty, and not come down at all to bother honest men with their pranks.

Walden 2004

It is no small happiness that we have to do from the beginning with a family hitherto wellnigh unknown in American noveldom, -- a family rich and not vulgar, beautiful and not frivolous, highly educated and fastidious, yet neither bitter nor disdainful, -- refined, honorable, serene, affectionate.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

These freedoms are not tolerated in American noveldom, and only a few futile "high-brows" sigh in vain for Thackeray's "happy harmless Fableland, where these things are."

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

These freedoms are not tolerated in American noveldom, and only a few futile "high-brows" sigh in vain for Thackeray's "happy harmless Fableland, where these things are."

The Certain Hour 1909

For my part, I think that they had better metamorphose all such aspiring heroes of universal noveldom into man weathercocks, as they used to put heroes among the constellations, and let them swing round there till they are rusty, and not come down at all to bother honest men with their pranks.

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

For my part, I think that they had better metamorphose all such aspiring heroes of universal noveldom into man weather-cocks, as they used to put heroes among the constellations, and let them swing round there till they are rusty, and not come down at all to bother honest men with their pranks.

Walden~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1854

I think that they had better metamorphose all such aspiring heroes of universal noveldom into man weather-cocks, as they used to put heroes among the constellations, and let them swing round there till they are rusty, and not come down at all to bother honest men with their pranks.

Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839