I like to read mystery novels.
Do you have a favorite?
There are many novels that I like and I have to think which ones that I like best.
Or do you have a favorite author of that genre?
Cervantes - have you heard of him?
I haven't! Could you tell me more about this author?
author of "Don Quixote" (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era. Ian Watt, in "The Rise of the Novel" (1957), suggested that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century.
Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance,
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