How Dickens turned his career around

It was 1836 and the first installments of his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, had sold only about 400 copies. By the end of the following year, Charles Dickens was a household name and his monthlies were selling 40,000 copies. Nina Martyris explains: "What changed? It was in this fourth installment that readers met Sam Weller, a cheerful young bootblack with a distinctive cockney idiolect — a character, in other words, in whom many readers could recognize themselves."

April 26, 2015

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