Sunday, March 09, 2025
Six on the shell, but a dozen in the egg
Six On The Shell
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/six-on-the-shell-29275cb5b88e
THE detective story is a typical literary genre in Great Britain and the United Kingdom. It started in the 19th century when novels and books were published in small booklets that only gave one chapter of a long novel, one chapter every time the village distributor, often moving from one village to the next in time, hence coming to one particular village, once a month, every four weeks. The readers had been hanging over the cliff at the end of the previous episode, hoping the vendor or distributor would have already, and still, the next chapter, the next installment. That was a loan on the future of a detective story. You had a great number of authors in that business, with Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and the Bronte sisters among them.
This Collection is a selected list of authors and stories representative of the time and the literary genius of a whole country that was imitated, at times later, by the Americans, the French, the Germans, and many others. You can read or watch it as a mirror of the 19th century and this divine activity that we call crime because there is a God for drunkards, criminals, and rapists, as is well known.
2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
3 Pages
Sociology of Crime and Deviance, * Detective Fiction, * Dreams, * Crime, * Nightmares
