actice, does make about one hundred printed pages, a reasonable length for a novel.The Booker Prize in 2007 created a serious debate with its short-listing of Ian McEwan's 152-page work On Chesil Beach, with some critics stating that McEwan had at best written a novella.Cf. a rather unfavourable review in the Irish Independent: "Ian McEwan's new novel has been greeted with unqualified, sometimes ecstatic, praise from every reviewer in Britain, which may strike some readers here as a bit odd when they read the book. For a start, it's not a novel. It's barely even a novella. In some ways it's more a long short story, built around a single event and involving just two characters—if it was a play it would be a one-act two-hander."↑ Anne Dacier's translations, 1699 and 1708, turned Homer's verses into prose and generated an uproar among European intellectuals, who were surprised by their archaic tone.↑ Good surveys are: John Robert Morgan, Richard Stoneman, Greek fiction: the Greek nove