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THE GREEN MILE

1996

Foreword: A Letter

Dear Constant Reader;

Life is a capricious business。 The story which begins in this little book exists in this form because of a chance remark made by a realtor I have never met。 This happened a year ago; on Long Island。 Ralph Vicinanza; a long…time friend and business associate of mine (what he does mostly is to sell foreign publishing rights for books and stories); had just rented a house there。 The realtor remarked that the house 〃looked like something out of a story by Charles Dickens。〃

The remark was still on Ralph's mind when he weled his first houseguest; British publisher Malcolm Edwards。 He repeated it to Edwards; and they began chatting about Dickens。 Edwards mentioned that Dickens had published many of his novels in installments; either folded into magazines or by themselves as chapbooks; (I don't know the origin of this word; meaning a smaller…than…average book; but have always loved its air of intimacy and friendliness)。 Some of the novels; Edwards added; were actually written and revised in the shadow of publication; Charles Dickens was one novelist apparently not afraid of a deadline。

Dickens's serialized novels were immensely popular; so popular; in fact; that one of them precipitated a tragedy in Baltimore。 A large group of Dickens fans crowded onto a waterfront dock; anticipating the arrival of an English ship with copies of the final installment of The Old Curiosity Shop on board。 According to the story; several would…be readers were jostled into the water and drowned。

I don't think either Malcolm。 or Ralph 

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