Dime Novels; or, Following an Old Trail in Popular Literature

Autor*innen

• Edmund Lester Pearson

Parameter

• 332 Seiten
• 12 Lesestunden

• Karten & Reisen
• Lehrbücher
• Sachliteratur
• Sammelwerke, Anthologien
• Sprachbücher & -lexika

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History of the development of this popular form of paperback novel. With 16 illustrations. Ballade of Dime Novels by Arthur Guiterman, list of b&w illustrations, Part I. Innocent I. The Pioneer; II. The Times; III. Books and Readers of the Day; IV. Afloat and Ashore; V. Success; Vi. Beadle, the Founder; VII. Propriety Rampant; VIII. The Imitators; IX. A Personal Interlude; X. Morals, Morals; XI. Beadle's Authors. Part II. Wild Days;: I. The 1880s; II. The Old Cap. III. The Old Sleuth; IV. Broadway Billy and Jack Harkaway; V. Deadwood Dick. Part III. Old The Menace of Respectability; II. Nick Carter; III. Yale's Greatest Hero; IV. All the Manly Virtues; comments on illustrations, acknowledgments, index.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Einband: Paperback