The following are texts in the public domain I often recommend to students and aspiring writers. Some are long and complex, others relatively short and straightforward. Together they give a decent impression about the state of novel-writing during the 1800s and early 1900s, which is when a lot of the linguistic and narrative framework of what we now know of as novels was popularized:
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables (preface)
E. A. Poe: The Philosophy of Composition
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