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What is one candidate for the first novel written in English?

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Several 18th-century novels, each essentially realistic, has at one time or another been designated the first novel in English. Daniel Defoe is famous forRobinson Crusoe(1719), a detailed and convincingly realistic account, based on a real event, of the successful efforts of an island castaway to survive.

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