Dime novel

noun·Gilded Age

Cheap American adventure paperback sold for ten cents, dominant from the 1860s through the 1910s.

A short, sensational paperback adventure novel sold for ten cents (later five), published weekly or monthly by American publishers from roughly 1860 through the 1910s. Early titles came from Beadle & Adams; later the genre was dominated by Frank Tousey, Street & Smith, and Norman L. Munro. The Brady detective adventures and the Old Cap Collier Library are textbook examples.

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