I seem to have misspoken. What we are seeing over the past 25 years is a *return* to doorstop novels. For what is now issued in a single 800+ page book would have originally been issued in multiple volumes and was the staple product of publishers all through the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Date: 2009-05-16 09:36 pm (UTC)