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Re: Pay Camilla Send a noteboard - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM
When you say you know how he was paid, what do you mean?

I mean the serial story format where he was paid per installment, which is something of an incentive for an author to create long stories, a goal aided by wordiness. But then, wordiness seems to be a hallmark of a lot of older English novels, so I'm sure it wasn't just him, and people obviously loved the stories however wordy they may have been.


I am not sure wordiness necessarily follows from the form. He would not be allowed to prolong his stories indefinitely, and if he lost readers it could often be cancelled, all depending on the contract.
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1822 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1421 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1301 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1351 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 597 Views
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I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1342 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1350 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1281 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1306 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1332 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1425 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1401 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1458 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1308 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1425 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1177 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1452 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 659 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1275 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1274 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1295 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1411 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1313 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1360 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1436 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1231 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1404 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1427 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1331 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1295 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1275 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1388 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1276 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1300 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1432 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 785 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 617 Views
Please tell me they haven't started letting people out of High School without making them read CD? Cannoli - 13/06/2011 10:16:10 PM 1332 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1331 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1401 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1390 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1283 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1373 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1196 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1304 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1321 Views
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They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1361 Views
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Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1277 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1287 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1185 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1358 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1365 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1355 Views
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Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1261 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1317 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1292 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1418 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1300 Views
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why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 618 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 589 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1292 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1405 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1450 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 556 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1308 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1404 Views
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