How does this quotation from Behn's Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: 'I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure.'

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How does this quotation from Behn's Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: 'I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure.'