Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Telling the story at length

The Saville report is due to be published today we are told, after 12 years in the preparation. Leaks say that it is 5,000 pages long & will retail at over £500 a copy. Even so it will not go very far to defraying the costs of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

In about the same number of years Charles Dickens published The Pickwick Papers, Sketches by Boz, Nicholas Nickleby, Master Humphreys' Clock, Martin Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son & David Copperfield.

War & Peace has typically over 1400 pages as a paperback. Marquez covered 100 years in under 500 pages.

I wonder who will produce the abbreviated version of Saville.

Related posts
Posted by at