Sylvia Plath's only novel is a deceptively modest, uncommonly fine piece of work...

虚伪而谦虚的说，这部西尔维娅·普拉斯唯一的小说是一部非同寻常的优秀作品. .。

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The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word "renowned".

《达芬奇密码》可能是写的唯一在全世界都“享有盛誉”一本小说了。

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"Inutile loveliness" is kind of the keyword of Nabokov's technique, and he says that the novel has its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss.

“无用的可爱”是纳巴科夫技巧的一个关键词，他说小说只有一个目的，那就是提供美学狂喜。

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John Adams is a writer not only of music: he is currently working on a novel.

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Inutile loveliness" is kind of the key word of Nabokov's technique, and he says the novel has as its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss. So, here is inutile loveliness coming just from seeing the landscape as a stranger.

无用的可爱“是纳博科夫技巧的一个,关键词，他说小说只有一个目的，那就是提供,美学狂喜，所以这里的“无用的可爱“,是把风景当做一个陌生人看待。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The author, who published only the one novel, is still alive but rarely speaks publicly.

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The Shining was the only novel he wrote as a non-resident of his beloved Maine, during a brief Seventies move to nearby Boulder, Colorado.

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"Tsotsi, " in Afrikaans as well as urban dialects, with English subtitles, was adapted from the only novel thus far by the great South African playwright Athol Fugard.

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Meals-on-wheels delivered his food, a friend helped him with shopping and he finished writing his first and only novel on the computer that talked to him as he wrote.

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