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Explain the reasons for the popularity of novels in India and outside world?

1. Novels were a medium of entertainment among the middle class.
2. Novels also assisted in the spread of silent reading at home or while travelling.
3. Novels offered a special world of imagination, into which the reader could slip and be all alone. Reading a novel was like day dreaming.
4. It was a medium through which lives of those hitherto out of literary scene could be narrated and reflected upon.


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