Citations:dime novel

English citations of dime novel

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2017 June 4, Antone Pierucci, “This Week in History: From the Marshall Plan and D-Day to Dime Novels”, in Lake County News‎^[1], section “June 9, 1860”:

[…] To this list of achievements should be added one more: the publishing of the first dime novel. It's difficult to actually pin down the definition of a dime novel, but I'm partial to the one chosen by Charles Bragin, an early collector of the books: dime novels are paper-covered “lurid literature of the west, detectives, bandits etc.” I like that “lurid,” since it succinctly identifies what was both the quality of the books and their main appeal for readers.