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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
1605
Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes publishes the first part of his satirically romantic novel
Don Quixote
1680
John Bunyan publishes
The Life and Death of Mr Badman
, an allegory of a misspent life that is akin to a novel
1688
Aphra Behn's novel
Oroonoko
makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade
1719
Daniel Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe
, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel
Daniel Defoe, after Taverner, 1706
National Portrait Gallery, London
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1747
Samuel Richardson's Clarissa begins the correspondence which grows into the longest novel in the English language
Samuel Richardson, by Chamberlin, c.1754
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