| 单词 | aga saga |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAga saga Aga saga n. (also with lower-case initial) [so called from the association of Aga stoves with the British rural middle classes] a type of popular novel, typically set in an English village or country town, that deals with the domestic and emotional lives of articulate middle- or upper-middle-class characters.Applied spec. to the novels of Joanna Trollope (b. 1943). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel political novel1735 comic novel1787 epistolary1804 autobiographical novel1832 Robinsonade1837 roman1867 sea-book1867 roman à clef1882 roman expérimental1884 hill-top novel1895 saga1895 Bildungsroman1910 pulp fiction1931 American Gothic1938 Künstlerroman1941 suspense novel1952 nouveau roman1959 sword and sorcery1961 graphic novel1964 non-fiction novel1965 schlockbuster1966 dark fantasy1968 celebrity novel1969 swashbuckler1975 chick lit1988 splatterpunk1988 Aga saga1992 1992 T. Blacker in Publishing News 11 Dec. 4 The Aga Saga must come from someone who talks like a member of the Royal Family and who's never happier..than when trudging through the fields with the dogs. 1995 Guardian 28 Mar. ii. 6/4 The Best of Friends is Trollope's seventh Aga saga so far, and easily her most complex in terms of plot. 2007 M. C. Beaton Agatha Raisin & Fairies of Fryfam 62 The next [book] was an Aga saga, a novel set in a village where a well-heeled middle-aged woman found out her husband was unfaithful. < as lemmas |
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