![]() ![]() Although it is hard to think of the book as anything but a classic novel in the twenty-first century, contemporary readers would not have been so accustomed with the term. ![]() The word ‘novel’ does not appear in any of the early editions or bookseller/ personal library catalogues that I examined. Early readers, critics, and booksellers alike were all drawn to the novel, but the modern-day reader may curiously wonder how they would have perceived its literary classification in a time when the novel was not a known or at least an acknowledged style of writing. The book became immediately popular in the first year of its publication and remained so in the following two decades, as is evident through the book’s innumerable subsequent editions. DANIEL DEFOE’S celebrated work The Life and Most Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, initially published in 1719, has been widely praised as the first English novel. ![]()
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