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Being fiction does not make it a novel. Homer's "Odyssey" is fiction, but it's not a novel. The first English novel is often considered to have been Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", published in 1719, although novels had been around in other European languages for about a century before that (Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote", published in 1605 is widely regarded as the first novel).
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