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| Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell |
  
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1 | 4.17% |
| I, Lucifer by Duncan Glenn |
  
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3 | 12.50% |
| Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen |
  
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4 | 16.67% |
| Marley and Me by John Grogan |
  
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3 | 12.50% |
| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert |
  
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6 | 25.00% |
| Howard's End by E.M Forster |
  
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2 | 8.33% |
| Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami |
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5 | 20.83% |
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06-05-2006, 12:37 PM
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Aphra Behn has been credited with inventing the novel, too.
I guess it's a ready-made dissertation topic: Find a prose text of more than 50 pages and argue that it was the first novel ever written. Bonus points if it was written earlier than all the other stuff on which people have written "this marks the invention of the novel" dissertations. |
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06-05-2006, 12:41 PM
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MF is correct, but the definition of novel varies greatly from one expert to the next. Aphra's is considered to be the first wholly original work of prose fiction in English, but Le Mort d'Arthur predates it by several hundred years. Since it is derived from legend, it is not considered to be original, but it is presented in what is now considered to be the novel form.
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