Episode 162: The Pirate Queen
The History of English Podcast
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What Is the First English Novel?
In 1570, a book was published in England called The Wear the Cat. It's not exactly the type of novel that tends to appear on the bestseller list today. But where the cat is mostly about animals, it considers whether they have the ability to use reason and logic. Now some people consider Thomas Mallory's La Morte D'Arthur to be the first English novel.
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