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
Horatio Alger imagined for his self-made dime novel heroes no such dizzying climb to altitudes of power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every moment when he is not working he is either vigorously walking, or poring over some book, a lurid dime novel I should judge from its appearance.
From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Thomas Mott Osborne
