Roman - Literature

Literature

  • The word for Novel in many European languages.
  • Romance (heroic literature), a genre of Medieval French literature
  • Nouveau roman, a type of French novel
  • Ar-Rum, the 30th book in the Qu'ran, is sometimes translated as The Romans

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