English novel John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" (1678) and Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko" (1688) are also contenders, while earlier works such as Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", and even the "Prologue" to Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" have been suggested. Another important early novel is "Gulliver's Travels" (1726, amended 1735), by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, which is both a satire of human nature, as well as a parody of travellers' tales like "Robinson Crusoe". The rise of the novel as an important literary genre is generally associated with the growth of the middle class in England. Other major 18th-century English novelists are
Into the Storm (Anderson novel) Into the Storm (Anderson novel) Into The Storm is the first book of the "Destroyermen" series of alternate history novels by Taylor Anderson. The main setting of the series is the four-stacker USS "Walker", which in this series is part of the United States Asiatic Fleet, and being pursued by the Japanese battlecruiser "Amagi". In 1942, the American destroyer USS "Walker" (DD-163), a World War I 'four-piper', is part of the United States Asiatic Fleet. Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy is "Walker"s captain. "Walker" and her sister ship, USS "Mahan" (DD-102), enter a squall and emerge on an alternate Earth where