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Also, high and low fiction writers (say, Trollope and Collins respectively -- Dickens was in-between) had a common adversary in all the old-fashioned ministers, and the like, who were proclaiming novel-reading to be sinful. This tended to bring them together, and maybe was one reason the three I mention were all friends
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I find it somewhat fascinating/ironic that we've come full circle -- from the huge 'triple-decker' novels penned by the above authors to fill circulating libraries (Mudie's Lending Library at one time had an "Amazon-like" influence on writers & literary output) to the current glut of "first novel of a planned trilogy" .....
What is the attraction between literature & threes?
Which is 'real literature' and which is 'popular literature' ... and are they different?
