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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
I felt that Frankenstein was painfully inflated... I underrstand that it was the style at the time to wax into elaborate detail over ever little detail, but it still felt to me like she was trying to get paid by the word; that the story would have worked better as a tersely-worder novella than as a full-blown book.
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I read somewhere that authors long ago were paid by the word or number of pages. I think it was Dickens that I read that about but I remember reading that this was common with a lot of authors of the Victorian era. Though I'm not sure how accurate this information is.