id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1391 Fiction - Wikipedia .html text/html 2761 342 66 Fiction generally is a narrative form, in any medium, consisting of people, events, or places that are imaginary—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.[1][2][3] In its most narrow usage, fiction refers to written narratives in prose and often specifically novels,[4][5] though also novellas and short stories. An example is Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a 1990 series of short stories about the Vietnam War. Fictional works that explicitly involve supernatural, magical, or scientifically impossible elements are often classified under the genre of fantasy, including Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, J. Main articles: Literature and Literary fiction Neal Stephenson has suggested that while any definition will be simplistic there is today a general cultural difference between literary and genre fiction. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1391.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1391.txt