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dime novel, penny dreadfulnoun
a melodramatic paperback novel
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dime novelnoun
A cheap pulp novel produced in 19th century America.
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dime novel
A dime novel is a type of inexpensive, popular fiction published in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, primarily in the United States. These novels, originally sold for around ten cents, were targeted at a mass audience and often featured sensationalist plots with themes of adventure, romance, or crime. The term is also used more broadly to refer to any cheap, mass-produced paperback book of lesser literary value.
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Dime novel
Dime novel, though it has a specific meaning, has also become a catch-all term for several different forms of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction, including “true” dime novels, story papers, five- and ten-cent weekly libraries, "thick book" reprints, and sometimes even early pulp magazines. The term was being used as a title as late as 1940, in the short-lived pulp Western Dime Novels. Dime novels are, at least in spirit, the antecedent of today’s mass market paperbacks, comic books, and even television shows and movies based on the dime novel genres. In the modern age, "dime novel" has become a term to describe any quickly written, lurid potboiler and as such is generally used as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized yet superficial piece of written work.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dime novel in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dime novel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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