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What would you say are ‘the finer growths’ that the story supports in a novel?

The ‘finer growths’ of a novel are the small parts of the novels that an author introduces like a character or sub-plot or an idea which makes one novel different from the other. Without these, there is nothing new in a novel to admire.


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