Why Trollope and Dickens Are So Prolific?

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Trollope is an incredible story teller, he's ncredibly funnyad i think a case could be made that anthony trollope is a better writer. But you could argue then dickens was more accessible. Ah, but i suspect there are reasons that Dickens just got lucky. And i i remember the classic comic i was probably seven years old, of oliver twist, or whatever it was that i read,. That the movies that were made, that that is part of the story as well.

Author and professor Janine Barchas of the University of Texas talks about her book, The Lost Books of Jane Austen, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation explores Austen's enduring reputation, how the cheap reprints of her work allowed that reputation to thrive, the links between Shakespeare and Austen, how Austen has thrived despite the old-fashioned nature of her content, Colin Firth's shirt, and the virtue of studying literature.