Vol. 6, Issue 3, Part D (2020)

Abstract
Comparing with other literary genres such as Poetry and Drama, Novel is very much new to English literature. This genre of writing started with the eighteenth century but greatly flourished in English literature after mid eighteenth century with the advancement of writers like Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and Laurence Sterne which generally considered as leading figures of English novels. This paper deals with the contributions of these masters in the development of this new literary genre known as ‘Novel’ and why they famously known as “Four wheels of English novels”.