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Dime novels; or, Following an old trail in popular literature / by Edmund Pearson.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS374.D5 P4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pearson, Edmund Lester, 1880-1937.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Dime novels.
- Genre:
- Dime novels.
- Physical Description:
- x, 280 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1929.
- Contents:
- The pioneer
- The times
- Books and readers of the day
- Afloat and ashore v. success
- Beadle, the founder
- Propriety rampant
- The imitators
- The personal interlude
- Morals, morals
- Beadle's authors
- The eighteen eighties
- The detectives : old cap
- The detectives : old sleuth
- Broadway Billy and Jack Harkaway
- Deadwood Dick
- The menace of respectability
- Nick Carter
- Yale's greatest hero
- All the manly virtues
- Readers' recollections
- "But our hero was not dead!"
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 271-272.
- OCLC:
- 1973584
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