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Dime Novels: Or, Following an Old Trail in Popular Literature
By Edmund Lester Pearson
326 pages
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- Publisher:
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of publication:
- Boston
- Publication year:
- 1929
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- BALLADE OF DIME NOVELS v
- CONTENTS vii
- Illustrations ix
- PART I - INNOCENT YOUTH 1
- I - THE PIONEER 3
- III - BOOKS AND READERS OF THE DAY 13
- IV - AFLOAT AND ASHORE 17
- V - SUCCESS 45
- VII - PROPRIETY RAMPANT 56
- IX - A PERSONAL INTERLUDE 82
- X - MORALS, MORALS 86
- XI - BEADLE'S AUTHORS 104
- PART II - WILD DAYS 129
- I - THE EIGHTEEN EIGHTIES 131
- III - THE DETECTIVES: OLD SLEUTH 191
- Title Page iii
- BALLADE OF DIME NOVELS v
- CONTENTS vii
- Illustrations ix
- PART I - INNOCENT YOUTH 1
- I - THE PIONEER 3
- III - BOOKS AND READERS OF THE DAY 13
- IV - AFLOAT AND ASHORE 17
- V - SUCCESS 45
- VII - PROPRIETY RAMPANT 56
- IX - A PERSONAL INTERLUDE 82
- X - MORALS, MORALS 86
- XI - BEADLE'S AUTHORS 104
- PART II - WILD DAYS 129
- I - THE EIGHTEEN EIGHTIES 131
- III - THE DETECTIVES: OLD SLEUTH 191
- V - DEADWOOD DICK 197
- PART III - OLD AGE 207
- I - THE MENACE OF RESPECTABILITY 209
- III - YALE'S GREATEST HERO 216
- IV - ALL THE MANLY VIRTUES 218
- V - READERS' RECOLLECTIONS 222
- APPENDIX 257
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 271
- INDEX 273