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| 1001 |
| | | Japanese author Murasaki Shibubi produces, in The Tale of Genji, a book which can be considered the world's first novel | |
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| 1605 |
| | | Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes publishes the first part of his satirically romantic novel Don Quixote | |
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| 1680 |
| | | John Bunyan publishes The Life and Death of Mr Badman, an allegory of a misspent life that is akin to a novel | |
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| 1688 |
| | | Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade | |
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