Forms of extended prose composition rather than verse: the reflective essay, the letter-structured epistolary form, the frame narrative's story-within-a-story structure, and the novella's short-novel length. Belongs here: a prose form defined by its structural or compositional convention rather than by genre content. Does not belong here: a genre classification such as the novel or short fiction, tracked under this atlas's separate genre roster rather than under form.
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Miguel de Cervantes, 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.
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