English novels

Britain's literary works

Novels written in the English language, regardless of the author's nationality or the setting.

The term encompasses works from Britain, America, and the broader Anglophone world: She studied English novels from Austen to Zadie Smith.

Distinguished from novels merely set in England or translated into English.

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