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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 1638 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1215 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1108 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1161 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 508 Views
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I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1169 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1167 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1089 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1110 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1147 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1218 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1200 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1241 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1125 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1228 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 999 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1274 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 552 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1100 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1074 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1109 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1202 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1139 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1142 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1165 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1033 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1163 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1257 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1133 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1115 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1086 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1204 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1093 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1113 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1250 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 695 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 524 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 1129 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1139 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1198 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1224 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1090 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1169 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1018 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1092 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1116 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1081 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1206 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1158 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1072 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1084 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1108 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1011 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1172 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1174 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1115 Views
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Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1058 Views
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Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1128 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1165 Views
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Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1087 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1139 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1136 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1105 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 992 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1206 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1106 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1005 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1230 Views
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Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1130 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 519 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 494 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1198 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 997 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1256 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1120 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1218 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1270 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 476 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1112 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1236 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1155 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1335 Views
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