Douglass's only novel, The Heroic Slave (1853), is aptly titled. Compare this fictionalized story of a fugitive slave with Douglass's autobiographical 1845 Narrative. What differences and similarities do you see? Why do you suppose Douglass wanted to write a novel, a work of the imagination, about an escaped slave, after he had already covered this topic in his narrative? What differences do the two forms require, the literary genre, novel, and the autobiographical form, slave narrative? Or are there some basic similarities? What does this question say about the two supposedly quite different forms, novel and autobiography?