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prose existed fiction, in a primitive are of considerable form among the anGreeks; but the novel, in a modern sense, practically! dates from the " Decameron " of Boccaccio (q.v.) in 1358. The next step is marked by Rabelais bom and then Cervantes, and the novel is full in " Robinson Crusoe.” The art was immensely developed by Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett Goldsmith Introduced a higher moral tone, which; was intensified in "Jane Austen. ’ Wiel and, Jean Paul, Richter, and Goethe prepared the way for the modern historical or problem novels. The great names of the century are Scott, Thackeray, Meredith, Hawthorne, Hugo, Dumas, Zola, Ebers Jokai, Tour-