"But you told me you were named after a character in a classical Japanese novel."

Fiction Monthly published classical novels and poems for the first ten years before 1921.

Journey to the West is a Chinese television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title.

Classicists, for example, have always assumed that there is a classical novel.

While the 1970s had been dominated by dramatizations of classical novels and popular plays, the 1980s saw inspiration from Hollywood.

It is nowadays considered a classical novel in France, given to students in highschool to read.

Within minutes we were discussing a recent television series adapted from a classical novel and disagreeing about why it had been so unsatisfying.

The novel is not as famous as other Chinese classical novels in the West.

In addition, many works are about ghosts and monsters, which are significant aesthetic features of Chinese classical novels.

Renault's classical novels informed a generation of historians, but have lately dropped off the cultural radar.