"William Baldwin's Beware the Cat (1561) – a satirical book considered by some to be the first ever novel, which centres around a man who learns to understand the language of a group of terrifying supernatural cats, one of whom, Mouse-slayer, is on trial for promiscuity."
~ Zaria Gorvett
"The Forgotten Medieval Habit of Two Sleeps"
Wow, the first English novel was about a cat? How did I not know this before today, as an English major.
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