In the 19th century, individual authors in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt created original works by imitating classical narrative genres: Ahmad Faris Shidyaq with "Leg upon Leg" (1855), Khalil Khoury with "Yes... so I am not a Frank" (1859), Francis Marrash with "The Forest of Truth" (1865), Salim al-Bustani with "At a Loss in the Levantine Gardens" (1870), and Muhammad al-Muwaylihi with "Isa ibn Hisham's Tale" (1907). This trend was furthered by Jurji Zaydan (author of many historical novels), Khalil Gibran, Mikha'il Na'ima and Muhammad Husayn Haykal (author of "Zaynab"). Meanwhile, female writer Zaynab Fawwaz's first novel "Ḥusn al-'Awāqib aw Ghādah al-Zāhirah" ("The Happy Ending", 1899) was also influential. According to the authors of the "Encyclopedia of the Novel":