1836: I Become a Literary Giant in Britain

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“Next, please welcome the Poet Laureate of the British Empire, recipient of the Order of the Garter, lifelong president of the Royal Society of Literature, Queen Victoria’s most trusted personal adviser, foreign member of the Académie Française and recipient of its Grand Cross of Honour, Dickens’s archenemy and dearest friend, the uncrowned king of the literary world, the honorable Lord Michel Leblanc!”

Michel stood on the platform outside Buckingham Palace. He surveyed the frenzied faces below, then glanced at Queen Victoria, who was looking at him with undisguised admiration.

He rubbed his chin, recalling that bitter winter when he had transmigrated in 1836...

Dickens: “Before I met Michel, I thought The Pickwick Papers was the pinnacle of its age. Now I understand what it means for a work to strike straight at the soul!”

Queen Victoria: “The sun of the British Empire may one day set, but the light of humanity captured in Mr. Michel’s writing will shine over Britain forever.”

Alexandre Dumas: “Damn it! A genius with the noble blood of France flowing through his veins went and saved the impoverished spirit of the English? He should come back to Paris!”

The Bronte sisters: “We made a deal: whoever gets Michel’s autograph first, the other two have to do the housework for a month.”

This book is also known as From the East End, a Literary Giant Emerges, A Dimensional Beatdown of Nineteenth-Century European Literature, and The British Empire’s Number One Target for Updates.