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Definition of the day : « penny dreadful »
- As in dime novel : noun inexpensive melodramatic or romantic paperback novel
- He did for the penny dreadful what Coleridge had done for the penny ballad.
- Extract from : « The Victorian Age in Literature » by G. K. Chesterton
- That they were the "light reading" of adults, the equivalent of to-day's Ally Sloper or the penny dreadful, is much more probable.
- Extract from : « Children's Books and Their Illustrators » by Gleeson White
- My remembrance of Irish county towns at that time is that no literature flourished except the Penny Dreadful and the local press.
- Extract from : « Imaginations and Reveries » by (A.E.) George William Russell
- I used it in the approved style of the penny dreadful—pointed it with a stiff arm at my friend's head.
- Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling
- If this were done, literature of the "penny dreadful" description would to a great extent be excluded.
- Extract from : « How to be Happy Though Married » by E. J. Hardy.
- To drive the penny dreadful out of the literary field is not a task beyond the powers of organization and enterprise.
- Extract from : « Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. III of IV » by Charles L. Graves
- "Some lazy loafer reading a penny dreadful," I thought, glancing at him, then at the title of his book.
- Extract from : « In Search of the Unknown » by Robert W. Chambers
- To Mr. Palmer's "penny dreadful" plot, the local newspapers add lying details of their own.
- Extract from : « The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons » by William Z. Foster
- Transcriber's Note: This book was originally published in "penny dreadful" form.
- Extract from : « Varney the Vampire » by Thomas Preskett Prest
- But this thing's elaborately simple, like a penny dreadful: 'In the purple grotto you will find the golden casket.'
- Extract from : « The Wisdom of Father Brown » by G. K. Chesterton