That’s the chapter title from which this excerpt from David Copperfield comes. Though Dickens writes hecka long stories, the basic characterizations are tight and—wow!—effective. Peggoty, Uriah Heep, on and on. I cut away lots of secondary characters in my last manuscript because they took too much space in the story. Copperfield is a textbook in [...]
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