Dickens's Pickwick Papers
1836
A twenty-four-year-old parliamentary reporter named Charles Dickens began serializing comic adventures of a gentleman's club in cheap monthly parts. Sales exploded - from a few hundred to forty thousand per issue. The serial made him a household name and invented, for the English-speaking world, the idea of fiction as a mass entertainment industry.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.