dickens
For nearly three months, I kept reading. Sometimes daily life intervened and I would fall behind, but most often I'd be ready for my next Dickens fix long before it showed up. I took to downloading the installments each week rather than waiting for the printed copies because, as third-class mail, their delivery dates were erratic. One night I came close to just grabbing a copy of the book and reading it straight through.
I didn't, though. I liked the idea of inhabiting Dickens's world for longer than such a binge would have allowed.
The Washington Post profiles Stanford University's Discovering Dickens project, which is turning the great novelist's epics back into serialized works, as they were originally published.