One of the reasons for this literary success is that Mantel seems to have written a very good modern novel, then changed all her fictional names to English historical figures of the fifteen-twenties and thirties.

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How else could he have become such a chronicler whose greatest work is still studied as the precursor of the modern psychological novel?

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Modern translations of the novel have been published in Chinese, German, French, Italian and English.

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They read the occasional Oprah novel, fashion magazines, and Modern Bride, with no encouragement from me.

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Robert Harris in his recent novel The Fear Index examined the modern anxiety that fuses the threat of powerful technology with unbridled financial markets.

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As an added bonus, the new scanner also provides a novel retort to those who question the value of studying the classics in the modern world.

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