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Daily Times The readers of the 18th Century and the rise of novel writing * It was in the 18th century that the number of readers began to increase which gave birth to reading of literature, especially novels May 23, 2021 Novel is quite a recent genre preceded by Poetry and Drama. Poetry in its epic form and Frama in its tragic ruled rooster for a long time since Greek ages. But the 18th century started to trail-blaze a new genre which could supplant Poetry and Drama and it did do so because to...

The Cheapest Bookstore in the World How did bookselling develop from the preserve of the elite to the Amazon marketplace? It is due, in large part, to the actions of one man.  Robert Greer | Published in 14 Mar 2017 Writing in his Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (published in 1792), Lackington, who began his working life as an illiterate shoemaker’s apprentice, explained why he had undertaken to transfor...