That original Kindle, code-named "Fiona" after a character in Neal Stephenson's futuristic novel The Diamond Age, was finally ready to go in the fall of 2007.

最初的 Kindle 以尼尔·斯蒂芬森的科幻小说《钻石时代》中的一个人物命名，代号为“菲奥娜”，终于准备在2007年秋季上市。

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Her acquaintance with a little boy on a train provided the inspiration for the description of the main character in her novel.

与一个小男孩在火车上的相识给她描绘小说主人公带来了灵感。

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The notion of a house, or more specifically a room, as the principal character in a novel is an odd one.

对于一幢房屋或更确切地说是一个房间的见解，作为主要角色出现在小说中是一个异数。

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The novel re-visits the character of Robert Langdon, the Harvard University professor from Brown's first two books.

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And yet, you like him anyway, and I think that's the power of the novel, and that's why I think he's such a character.

但是，你还是会喜欢他，我想那就是这部小说的力量，那就是为什么我认为他是个很有趣的角色。

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After all, the most famous organ-eater of all time is the character Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

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Candace Bushnell, lauded authoress of six New York Times bestsellers is most famous for the creation of a character nearly twenty years ago is back this summer with the release of the second of two prequels of that same iconic character, Summer In The City: A Carrie Diaries Novel.

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