One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
文学史上最著名的，也是最难理解的事实之一是，至少在西欧文学中，散文式小说很晚才出现，而在两种伟大的古典语言中，我们所谓的散文式小说却相对缺乏。
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