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Critics once argued that novelist Mara Bell delayed the final installments of her serialized novel because she had grown hostile to serialization. Letters Bell wrote to her publisher tell a different story: she repeatedly praised the serial format for sustaining readers’ interest but described losing weeks of work while caring for an ill relative.
Which choice most logically follows from the text?
A
Bell’s publisher forced her to abandon the final installments.
B
Bell believed that serialization reduced readers’ interest in fiction.
C
Bell’s delays likely resulted from practical circumstances rather than opposition to serialization.
D
Bell completed the entire novel before its first installment appeared.