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1001
 
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Japanese author Murasaki Shibubi produces, in The Tale of Genji, a book which can be considered the world's first novel       
1605
 
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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
 
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Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade        
1719
 
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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
 
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Samuel Richardson's Clarissa begins the correspondence which grows into the longest novel in the English language       
Samuel Richardson, by Chamberlin, c.1754
National Portrait Gallery, London

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