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How were Dickens's novels first published?

Most of Charles Dickens's novels were first published in monthly or weekly installments, which kept readers hooked on cliffhangers.

Jane Austen published her novels anonymously. Her first was credited only to "A Lady."

The first Harry Potter book was rejected by 12 publishers before Bloomsbury published it in 1997.

"Animal Farm" was rejected by several publishers, including T.S. Eliot at Faber and Faber.

"The Lord of the Rings" was written as one novel, but the publisher split it into three volumes.

Ten-year-old Rayner Unwin was paid a shilling to review "The Hobbit" for his father's publishing company.