Thursday, April 07, 2005

Penny Dreadfuls

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls, provides an overview and description of Stanford University Library's Dime Novel and Story Paper collection, with essays on printing processes and genre conventions. Gallery of more than 2,000 cover images, title catalog, and selected fulltexts are presented. The collection includes long runs of the major dime novel series (Frank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, Beadle's New York Dime Library, etc.) and equally strong holdings of story papers like the New York Ledger and Saturday Night.

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