Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels : Penguin Classics - Various

Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels

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Paperback | 18 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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A one-of-a-kind compendium of popular fiction from a bygone era
Dime novels aas fundamentally American as baseball and jazzawere an inexpensive and inexhaustible source of popular entertainment for millions of Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The five novels in this unique anthology are classic examples of the form, which encompassed Westerns, early science fiction, detective and mystery yarns, and Revolutionary War historicals. From the handsome gambler aDashing Diamond Dicka and the daring inventor in aOver the Andes with Frank Reade, Jr., in His New Air-Shipa to the mythic baseball player in aFrank Merriwellas Finish, a here are some of the most valiant heroes and notorious rogues in the pantheon. Read together, these novels are fascinating time capsules from a young nation in love with its larger-than-life characters.

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