In America a version of the penny dreadful became popularly known as a dime novel.
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He is too good to be true-except in a sweet-souled dime-novel movie like this here.
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Sante and Kenny Kimes are a walking, talking dime novel.
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New tunes as tough and tender as a dime novel.
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Dime novel sets the time.
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Dianetics might just as easily have formed the basis for a dime-store novel.
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Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte, and Twain.
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The films that emerged from this cultural Marshall Plan in reverse might not be better than the usual teenpix and dime-novel dramas, but they ought to be more exciting.
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Brad Pitt as Jesse James, who, in his day, was a pulp-magazine and dime-store-novel star.