An incredibly rare handwritten manuscript of an unfinished novel by Jane Austen - the only one that is still in private hands - is to appear at auction in London.

一份简·奥斯汀未竟之作的珍稀手稿近日将现身伦敦拍卖行，这是目前唯一一份仍藏于私人之手的奥斯汀手稿。

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The dominant artistic form was the novel, great sprawling narratives which not only charted private fates, but made whole societies in mirror image and addressed the public issues of the day.

当时占主导地位的艺术形式是小说，它们叙事宏伟，篇幅铺漫，不仅勾画个人命运，展现整个社会景象，而且直面公共时政。

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Private charitable donation is a comparative novel parlance, all countries' laws haven't given it a specific definition.

慈善私益募捐是一种较为新颖的提法，各国法律目前都尚未对其作明确的定义。

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The urban landscape depicted by Paul Theroux in his classic 1986 novel O-Zone, where the rich live in artificial "green" enclaves protected by private corporate armies from the environmentally devastated areas surrounding them that are populated by the rest, will soon move from fiction to fact.

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The first time I interviewed writer Lev Grossman I had just finished reading his excellent fantasy novel, The Magicians, the story of a group of teenage students at Brakebills, an elite private school for magicians.

FORBES: Lev Grossman on 'The Magician King' and the Science of Magic