The Pickwick Club discussion

Just wanted to let the Dickens fans here know about Mousehold Words, a web site I run that publishes Dickens and other serial novelists as free digital serials.

You set a schedule, and the site emails you serial parts. You can read on the web site, in your email, or in an ebook reader on your phone, tablet, or computer. The service is free and we don't share or use your email except to send you the serial parts.

So far, Dickens available is Hard Times and Dombey and Son, with Barnaby Rudge to be published soon and several others in preparation. There are also works by Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, and other of Dickens' contemporaries.

Hope this is useful to some Dickens readers here, and let me know if you have any questions.

Hello Chris,

thanks a lot for the hint at your web site! I am sure that it will be appreciated by many of the Pickwickians frequenting our group. I am generally a chip of the old block in that I stick to real books but some of the Victorians are out of print, e.g. many books by Bulwer-Lytton, and for these a site like yours may well be a site to know ;-)

Thanks. I try to publish a mix of popular and obscure books, like Bulwer Lytton (I'm proofreading What Will He Do With It? right now) and Charles Reade.

I used to offer a printable RTF (Microsoft Word) option as well, but since I migrated the site I haven't had a chance to fix that yet. But eventually, you might be able to print out your own serial parts.

Tristram wrote: "Hello Chris,

thanks a lot for the hint at your web site! I am sure that it will be appreciated by many of the Pickwickians frequenting our group. I am generally a chip of the old block in that I s..."

Now you finally tell me that Bulwer-Lytton is out of print? I've been looking for him for years.

Kim wrote: "Tristram wrote: "Hello Chris,

thanks a lot for the hint at your web site! I am sure that it will be appreciated by many of the Pickwickians frequenting our group. I am generally a chip of the old ..."

As far as I know, a lot of Bulwer-Lytton is out of print. I have only seen Paul Clifford in a recent pocket book edition. It's a pity because I think that Bulwer-Lytton is a very underestimated writer.

Tristram wrote: "Kim wrote: "Tristram wrote: "Hello Chris,

thanks a lot for the hint at your web site! I am sure that it will be appreciated by many of the Pickwickians frequenting our group. I am generally a chip..."

I can't find that one either. Send it to me. Make sure you pay the postage. :-}

Tristram wrote: "As far as I know, a lot of Bulwer-Lytton is out of print. "

But a lot of his work is available on Gutenberg.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...

Everyman wrote: "Tristram wrote: "As far as I know, a lot of Bulwer-Lytton is out of print. "

But a lot of his work is available on Gutenberg.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc..."

Thanks. My point is that neither one of you bothered to point out to me that he is no longer in print when I was searching book stores for his novels. Figures, grumps. :-}

What I want to know is, why do I always confuse the name of this novelist with the character of Sir Mulberry Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby? It's just weird :D

Kim wrote: "My point is that neither one of you bothered to point out to me that he is no longer in print when I was searching book stores for his novels. Figures, grumps."

I do most humbly apologize for not understanding that you need your hand held to that extent. I will try to correct my failure.

Just to bring you up to date, if you want to buy a Studebaker, you won't be able to buy a new one. Dreadfully sorry, but I'll save you the trouble of going to car dealer after car dealer looking for one.

If there is any other product you might want to consider buying, be sure to let us know so that we can do all the research for you and advise you whether or not it is available.

Hahaha! But Everyman, that was actually news to me, as an English person! For a while I misunderstood an American friend who kept referring to her car as an "olds" car, assuming it was a typo for a secondhand car...!

Jean wrote: "What I want to know is, why do I always confuse the name of this novelist with the character of Sir Mulberry Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby? It's just weird :D"

This is surely weird, Jean. But I'm always mixing up Tuesday and Thursday and their German equivalents, Dienstag und Donnerstag, which is not only weird, but often highly uncomfortable and awkward.

Kim wrote: "Everyman wrote: "Tristram wrote: "As far as I know, a lot of Bulwer-Lytton is out of print. "

But a lot of his work is available on Gutenberg.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc......"

The works no longer being in print, it does not follow that you will not be able to buy them. Sometimes you are lucky, as I was the other day when I came across a sale where ignorant and heartless people sold the books of a family member of theirs who had died, and they went away at very low prices. There I actually bought Dickens's "A Child's History of England" and "The Uncommercial Traveller" as well as some out-of-print novels by Smollett.

So do not despair but keep your eyes open!

Tristram wrote: "The works no longer being in print, it does not follow that you will not be able to buy them. "

Excellent point. There are 20 pages of his works available on alibris
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?bro...

and also many, some of which may be duplicates, on abebooks
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Searc...

I have used both these sources for years and am very satisfied with both.

I had to think for a few minutes what a Studebaker even was, then it hit me, Oh yeah, it was one of those really, really old cars that they made years and years before I was even born, so anyone that remembers them must be ancient.

Kim wrote: "I had to think for a few minutes what a Studebaker even was, then it hit me, Oh yeah, it was one of those really, really old cars that they made years and years before I was even born, so anyone th..."

I learned how to drive in a green Studebaker on the lanes on my grandmother's farm. (As far as roads go, it was a 1947 Chevy I learned on).

I've even ridden in a rumble seat, though that was before I was of driving age. Well, I wasn't of driving age when I drove the Studebaker, but it was only on private roads, so that doesn't count.

Studebakers were great cars.

Everyman wrote: "Kim wrote: "I had to think for a few minutes what a Studebaker even was, then it hit me, Oh yeah, it was one of those really, really old cars that they made years and years before I was even born, ..."

If I was good at math :} I'd go figure out from that how old you are, but I'm just guessing 95 from your post. I'm going to look up a Studebaker now. :o}

Kim wrote: "If I was good at math :} I'd go figure out from that how old you are, but I'm just guessing 95 from your post."


Closer than you might think. But ours was a four-door sedan, not a convertible.