Serial (literature)
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In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential installments. The installments are also
Advertisement for Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, serialised weekly in the literary magazine All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861
The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, alo
Serial (literature)
…periodicals often responding to audience reaction. In France, Alexandre Dumas and Eugène Sue were masters of the serialised genre. The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo each appeared as a feuilleton. The Count of Monte Cristo was stretched out to 139 installments. Eugène Sue's serial novel Le Juif errant increased…
Louis Français Dantès sur son rocher
The protagonist, Edmond Dantès, was a merchant sailor before his imprisonment. (Illustration by Pierre-Gustave Staal)
Château d'If (Marseille)
Actor James O'Neill as the Abbé Busoni