[bksvol-discuss] Re: Moby Dick

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:36:39 -0600

In my opinion, where Dickens really shines is in A Tale of Two Cities.  It
is a masterpiece even with the descripptions.  Also David Copperfield.

Sue S.

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From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:18 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Moby Dick


Yep Charles Dickens also got paid by the word for a lot of his novels.
Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, and Bleak House for three.

And Les Miserabs by Victor Hugo, was originally a set, and so he goes into
graphic and extreme detail about the Battle at Waterloo, sigh.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:40 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Moby Dick



> The problem with it, and a lot of the novels of that
> day was they got paid
> by the word.  sigh.
>
That's interesting. I didn't know that.

I liked ths story when I read it in college. I just
didn't like the dissertation on whales, which, of
course, is one of the things that's supposed to be
make it an important book.

Cindy



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