If I had read, frankly, some more modern or post-modern novels at the time, I might have wanted to do something else.

坦白地说，如果我当时多读一些现代或后现代小说，我可能会想做点别的。

This literary revelation has led many scholars to call Don Quixote the first modern novel.

这一文学启示使许多学者称堂吉诃德为第一部现代小说。

Eight years later The Moonstone was published and earned Collins the title the father of the modern English detective novel.

八年后，《月光石》出版并为柯林斯赢得了现代英国侦探小说之父的称号。

During this period, he spent almost all his time reading, including a variety of books as literature, philosophy, history, psychology, as well as a large amount of western modern novels.

留学期间，他研心苦读，博览文学、哲学、史学、心理学等各方面的书籍，包括大量的西方现代小说。