dime novel in English
noun
1
a cheap, popular novel, typically a melodramatic romance or adventure story.
The old dime novel was not palmed off as literature upon an unsuspecting public as the new dime novel is.
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1. The second of these, The Administratrix, is the first cowboy novel outside of the dime novel tradition, preceding Owen Wister's The Virginian by more than a decade
2. Legend has it that Ned Buntline, dime-novel author and showman, ordered five Buntlines as gifts to five Dodge City lawmen, including Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson
3. Through Comanche and outlaw attacks, a Wells Fargo stagecoach, duels and shootouts, there will be fortunes found while fortunes are lost, and it’s all recoded by the Aggrandizements of a Dime Novel author