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.
*MySmiley*
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM
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What the dickens?!
13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM
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Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually.
14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM
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But, of course.
13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM
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i *hate* dickens.
13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM
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Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM*
13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM
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Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies?
14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM
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That's easy. No.
13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM
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Re: That's easy. No.
14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM
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only great expectations
13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM
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Very un-dickensian answers
13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM
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Re: Very un-dickensian answers
14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM
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Please tell me they haven't started letting people out of High School without making them read CD?
13/06/2011 10:16:10 PM
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What in the dickens prompted this survey?
13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM
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14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM
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Can you please find that word?
15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM
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I'm fairly well-read in this regard
13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM
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Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard
14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM
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Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard
14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM
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Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard
14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM
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14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM
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A few works
15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM
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Re: A few works
15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM
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19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM
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19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM
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