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Novels first published in serial form

  • The Pickwick PapersThe first issue of The Pickwick Papers appeared in March 1836. It contained two chapters and cost one shilling. Each subsequent number followed a strict…
  • The War of the WorldsIn the summer of 1894, a strange object thought to be a meteor crashed onto Horsell Common near Woking. The narrator watched from his home as the cylinder…
  • Ulysses (novel)On the 2nd of February 1922, Sylvia Beach handed James Joyce three copies of his new novel. The date marked his fortieth birthday and coincided with the…
  • Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky stood in a small room in Wiesbaden, Germany, during the summer of 1865. He owed large sums to creditors and needed money desperately to…
  • The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky began writing The Brothers Karamazov in April 1878, spending nearly two years crafting the novel. He published it as a serial in The…
  • The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers in 1844, but the story began much earlier. In 1700, a writer named Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras released…
  • Heart of DarknessIn 1890, a thirty-two-year-old Polish-British sailor named Joseph Conrad boarded a Belgian trading steamer bound for the African interior.
  • The Lost World (Doyle novel)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood before the Royal Geographical Society on the 13th of February 1911. He listened intently as his friend Percy Harrison Fawcett…
  • The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane stood in the quiet of a New Jersey studio in June 1893, staring at blank legal paper. He had never seen a battlefield.
  • War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy began writing War and Peace in 1863, the year he married and settled at his country estate. He wrote to Elizabeth Bers asking for chronicles or…
  • Ben DrownedAlexander Hall published the first chapter of Ben Drowned on the 7th of September 2010. He posted it to 4chan's /x/ board under the username Jadusable.