England is the birthplace of the modern novel.

英国是近代小说发源地。

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All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel.

我的全部生活使得我适合于现代小说所表现的现实主义和自然主义。

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All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them.

所有我的生活已经使我形成了现实主义，现代小说的自然主义，我读它们从没有感觉已经足够了。

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In fact,Edgar Allan Poe is considered the father of the modern detective novel.

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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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