classic novel

collocation in English

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classic
adjective
uk
/ˈklæs.ɪk/us
/ˈklæs.ɪk/
having a high quality or standard against which other things ...
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novel
noun[C]
uk
/ˈnɒv.əl/us
/ˈnɑː.vəl/
a long printed story about imaginary characters ...
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(Definition ofclassicandnovelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is the third adaptation of the correspondentclassicnovel.
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Audience started to focus on theclassicnovelagain.
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Thisclassicnovelabout a family torn apart by two world wars is both serious and amusing.
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Examples are recordings of lectures and experiments, or more marginally, a film based on aclassicnovel.
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From the age of 11 or 12, he read classic novels.
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Most students start to read in kindergarten and read classic novels by 4th and 5th grade.
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They also read volumes of classic novels to him at night.
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Many others describe how they were able to survive the camps mainly by entertaining the officials with stories and retellings of classic novels.
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Hancock read widely and avidly in an attempt to discover the meaning of life, including large numbers of philosophers, classic novels and political books.
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He joined in with intimate family gatherings by candlelight, presided over by his father telling tales of the past as well as reading out classic novels and short stories.
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