Portal:Novels/Did you know/4

• ...that The Vampyre (pictured) was a short novel first published on April 1, 1819 in parts in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron"?
• ...that Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram was the first novel in Tamil?
• ...that Sara Gruen’s historical novel Water for Elephants recounts that circus workers were sometimes thrown off the circus train in the middle of the night, a practice known as "redlighting"?

Source

1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/January#5 January 2005, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/February#14 February 2006, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/April#6 April 2007, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.