melding of fact and fiction as salman rushdie was saying earlier. >> rose: this is a clip from david copperfield, here it is. >>> copper field. >> do i have the honor of add regular-- addressing the bearer of the name of copperfield. >> yes, is sir. >> wilkins. >> at your service. >> i hope i see you well. >> your esteemed stepfather a man of business like myself has charged me with the honor of providing with you suitable quarters when in town. >> you mean i am to stay with you, sir. >> in short, yes. >> under the impression that your in this metropolis have not as yet been-- and you might have difficulty penetrating the mysteries of a modern baby long, i place myself at your disposal. >> in short, in case you get lost, i have come to take you home. >> jill, you have said that in copperfield he confronted his youth and in expectations he confronted his adulthood. >> yeah, i think he really needed to write through both of those things. i think that shame as art was speak about was a really powerful thing for him his whole life. it was also, you know, willie dean helm said it was a thing where he

morgan's study and we're looking at the first installments of david copperfield, one shilling would have got you your monthly parts. and here is the beginning part of the become let. and it is just page after page after page of advertisements for books and pills and remedies and all kinds of things. and here you have the original illustrations that accompany each part. separated by tissue, of course, that they didn't smudge each other. and here's the very first page of the narrative. whether i shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. so nowadays people buy a dickens novel, they imagine of course that that is how they merchandise books but -- >> this is the standard publication format for novel os particular to dickens. >> it became so and it was really dickens who pioneered this and was the most successful perpetrator f you will, of publishing in installments. >> i guess what you are saying, these numbers are only a shilling each that everybody could afford to read his work. >> very affordable, yes. if you t