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Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.. The English novel is an important part of English literature.This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland (or any part of Ireland before 1922).
The Affair (Child novel) The Affair (Snow novel) After the Fire, A Still Small Voice; Agnes de Castro; or, The Force of Generous Love; Agnes Grey; Airs Above the Ground (novel) Albert Angelo; Alice Lorraine; All Quiet on the Orient Express; Alton Locke; Amelia (novel) Amsterdam (novel) Animal Farm; The Anti-Pamela; or, Feign'd Innocence Detected
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
The Guardian asked readers a fortnight after the conclusion of McCrum's list to name the novels that they wish had been on the list. The book with the highest number of votes was Chinua Achebe 's Things Fall Apart , the second Arundhati Roy 's The God of Small Things , and the third Toni Morrison 's Beloved .
Pages in category "English-language novels" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 436 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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There are multiple candidates for first novel in English partly because of ignorance of earlier works, but largely because the term novel can be defined so as to exclude earlier candidates. (The article for novel contains detailed information on the history of the terms "novel" and "romance" and the bodies of texts they defined in a historical ...
Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel The Moonstone (1868), is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. [152] Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was an important Scottish writer at the end of the nineteenth century, author of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and the historical novel Kidnapped (1886).