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The history of literature in many countries, both ancient and modern, has record real treasures of writing pieces.
''The story of English literature begins with the Germanic tradition of the Anglo-Saxon settlers''... ''Beowulf, an epic poem of the 8th century, stands at its head.'' <ref> [http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=gsz#gsz Alliterative verse: 8th - 14th century AD] </ref>.
[[Geoffrey Chaucer]], a poet of the court, wrote the poem ''The House of Fame'' in 1380, and his masterpiece ''Troilus and Criseyde'' in 1385; he was also the author of ''Canterbury Tales'', which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature. <ref> [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/chaucer.htm Geoffrey Chaucer] </ref>
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''Pamela'', indeed, was printed as early as 1744 in Philadelphia, by [[Benjamin Franklin]], and in the same year in New York and in Boston. But the only other novels printed in America before the Declaration of Independence seem to have been ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1768), ''Rasselas'' (1768), ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1772), ''Juliet Grenville'' (1774), and ''The Works of Laurence Sterne'' M.A. (1774). <ref> [http://www.bartleby.com/225/1501.html The Novel in the Colonies.] </ref>
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The history of literature in many other countries, both ancient and modern, has record real treasures of writing pieces.
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