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
With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful.
From Time Magazine Archive
It’s just like a dime novel, or a five-cent library plot.”
From The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin by Chapman, Allen
