His later and in many ways better novels had been criticized or simply not read."

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Not all of the novels aspire to or have as their purpose that kind of difficulty that sometimes English majors really want.

不是所有的小说都希望或者拥有,英语主修生想到的那种难度。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Things just don't happen the way they happen in nurse novels and bodice-rippers -in which somehow or another the pauper marries the prince.

现实生活中不会发生像,？护士小说和浪漫情欲小说中发生的那些事情,在那些情节中，穷姑娘莫名其妙地嫁给了王子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

My goal in this course is to allow you or to invite you to read someof the most compelling novels written in the last little over a half century.

我上这门课的目的,就是让你或者说是邀请你,来读一些刚过去的半个多世纪里,最引人注目的小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选