The book's 56 chapters were published in 19 monthly installments in a London newspaper. By the time the last chapter was published, Dickens was established as a hot author.
The serial novel apparently hasn't died out.
It's still alive and well on TheNextBigWriter.com, a virtual bazaar teaming with writers, reviewers and proofreaders from the U.S. and 16 other countries. Recently, the site made a splash by offering $5,000 to the winner of a six-month-long competition among its 3,000 online members. The...
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