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Definition of Dime novel
1. Noun. A melodramatic paperback novel.
Definition of Dime novel
1. Noun. (US dated) A cheap pulp novel produced in 19th century America. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dime Novel
Literary usage of Dime novel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Journal by Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"The dime-novel evil Is one of our most recent Ills, but we have not yet seen ...
From lack of extensive personal experience in dime-novel literature and In ..."
2. Thoughts and Experiences in and Out of School by John Bradley Peaslee (1900)
"DIME-NOVEL READING Among tlie greatest powers for evil are the low and degrading
writings that our boys and girls read. Even educators, I fear, ..."
3. The New World and the New Book, an Address, Delivered Before the Nineteenth by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1892)
"XXIV THE TEST OF THE dime novel ~VT"O work of fiction ever published in London,
the newspapers say, received so many advance orders as greeted a late story ..."
4. Michigan Poets and Poetry: With Portraits and Biographies by Warren Wayne Lamport (1904)
"The Old dime novel FRANK L. ROSE How dear to my heart are the days of my boyhood,
When memory fondly presents them to view. Had I but the skill of an artist ..."
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