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The following works of literature have each been claimed as the first novel in English. * Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, (written circa 1470, published 1485) * William Baldwin, Beware the Cat, (written 1553, published 1570, 1584)[1] * John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580) * Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1581) * John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress(1678) * George Ashwell (translator), Philosophus Autodidactus (1686) * Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688) * Simon Ockley (translator), The Improvement of Human Reason: Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan (1708) * Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoem (1719) * Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders(1722) * Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) The following are some other early long works of prose fiction in English: * William Caxton's 1483 translation of Geoffrey de La Tour Landry, The Knight of the Tower (originally in French) * Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, or The Life of Jack Wilton (1594) * Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (1704) * Daniel Defoe, The Consolidator (1705) * Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726) (written circa 1470, published 1485)
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∙ 14y agoThe oldest known text written in English is the poem Beowulf
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∙ 14y agoThe Epic of Beowulf is considered to be the first example of English writing.
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∙ 9y agoThe first book printed in England would have been a Bible, and would have been in Latin, not English
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∙ 14y agoThe Bay Psalm Book, 1640
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