dime novel
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For fun: A late-19th-century dime novel offers advice on when not to marry.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2016
Yet Lansdale has pulled out all the stops to deliver a rip-roaring tale completely in keeping with dime novel traditions and the cinematic hyperbole of "Blazing Saddles" or "Django Unchained."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2015
One of Thompson's critics has called him without disparagement "a dime novel Dostoevsky" and there are elements of traditional tragedy in Lou's story of small-town desperation and madness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2010
From the days of the dime novel through the era of soap opera, U.S. romantics have dreamed of inheriting an estate and a title in Great Britain.
From Time Magazine Archive
The moral standards of the dime novel are always of the highest.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
