According to 

Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two
thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in
the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.[6] The ancient romance form was revived
by Romanticism, especially the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel.[7] Some,
including M. H. Abrams and Walter Scott, have argued that a novel is a fiction narrative that displays
a realistic depiction of the state of a society, while the romance encompasses any fictitious narrative
that emphasizes marvellous or uncommon incidents.[8][9][10]
Works of fiction that include marvellous or uncommon incidents are also novels, including The Lord
of The Rings,[11] To Kill a Mockingbird,[12] and Frankenstein.[13] "Romances" are works of fiction whose
main emphasis is on marvellous or unusual incidents, and should not be confused with the romance
novel, a type of genre fiction that focuses on romantic love.
Pliny mentions some painted ceilings in his day in the town of Ardea, which had been made prior to
the foundation of Rome. He expressed great surprise and admiration at their freshness, after the
lapse of so many centuries.

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in which the filament is forced with a staple by the middle into a hole with a special driver and held
there by the pressure against all of the walls of the hole and the portions of the staple nailed to the
bottom of the hole. The staple can be replaced with a kind of anchor, which is a piece of rectangular
profile wire that is anchored to the wall of the hole, like in most toothbrushes. Another way to attach
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hole, a plastic fibre is welded to another plastic surface, giving the option to use different diameters
of bristles in the same brush.