Sam Weller Turned The Tide
LIKE many another novel, "Pickwick Papers" was not a success at the start. The first five monthly parts of "Pickwick Papers" were a decided failure. But on the introduction of Sam Weller the sale rose twentyfold, and the publishers sent Dickens £500 on the publication of the twelfth number, and at the close of the novel they sent him a further’ sum of £3000 over and abore his stipulated agreement of £15 for each part. Tt is said that when the delight in "Pickwick" was at its height, a ponderous divine, who had been giving counsel at the bedside of a dying man, heard, as he left the room, his victim sigh, "Thank Heaven, there will be another ‘Pickwick’ in three days!" Listeners to 4YA will hear Professor T D. Adams in readings from "Pick wick Papers" in Friday, July 8.
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Radio Record, 1 July 1938, Page 17
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146Sam Weller Turned The Tide Radio Record, 1 July 1938, Page 17
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