dime novel
Example Sentences
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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
It's just the sort of thing you can find in any old dime novel.
From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell
