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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 1901 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1487 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1400 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1433 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 634 Views
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I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1408 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1419 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1366 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1389 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1411 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1521 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1476 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1533 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1380 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1509 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1252 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1523 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 699 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1350 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1349 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1359 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1489 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1395 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1448 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1514 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1301 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1485 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1503 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1404 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1359 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1349 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1466 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1348 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1380 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1515 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 827 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 655 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 1401 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1411 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1480 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1473 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1357 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1447 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1270 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1377 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1392 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1380 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1475 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1440 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1315 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1354 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1367 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1261 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1435 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1448 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1437 Views
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Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1364 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1419 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1383 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1367 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1247 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1499 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1379 Views
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Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1534 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1405 Views
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Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1401 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 652 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 630 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1264 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1375 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1483 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1531 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 589 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1406 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1484 Views
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