Dime novel
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The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term
Cover of Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier by Edward S. Ellis (1860)
Cover of Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860)
The New Dime Novel Series introduced color covers but reprinted stories from the original series
Old Sleuth Library, 1888
Genre fiction
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In the book-trade, genre fiction, also known as formula fiction, or commercial fiction, encompasses fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal
Dime novel
…The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms…
Romance novels
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J. R. R. Tolkien
Arthur C. Clarke