The comic novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, appeared serially in 1836 and 1837, and was first published in book form in 1837.

喜剧小说《匹克威克外传》在1836年和1837年连载发布，并于1837年首次以书的形式出版。

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The novel is comic and tragic.

这本小说兼有喜剧和悲剧的特点。

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"I've been reading his novel Candide," she says, with the nonchalance other kids reserve for a Garfield comic book.

“我最近就在读一本他的小说《坎戴德》”她说道，对于其他的孩子还在读漫画书这一点，她表现得很随性。

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It is a comic novel and as such very serious.

这虽然是部关于一个,却不失严肃。

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Let's have a comic novel do the same for emergent adulthood.

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Although there is nothing inherently funny about two people being romantically thwarted for nearly two decades, Waiting turns, page by careful page, into a deliciously comic novel.

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The Janeite subculture was itself the subject of a popular comic novel, Shannon Hale's Austenland, a movie version of which premiered at the 2013 Sundance film festival.

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