The Weekly Novelette description
Beadle’s Dime Novels
Beadle’s Frontier Series
The Seaside Library
Secret Service Series
The War Library
The Weekly Novelette
This series of dime novels published by M. M. Ballou of Boston, Massachusetts, from 1857–1862 (approximate number of issues 312) offered a better grade of writing than most pulp fiction series. Plus the offerings in this series were full-length novels, generally more than 65,000 words.
But since each of the novels in the series was published over the course of four weekly issues at ten cents per issue, can these really be called “dime novels” when it would cost the reader forty cents to read the entire novel?
We especially like this series at Travelyn Publishing because it offered many first-rate Age of Sail novels, for which we have a predilection.
But since each of the novels in the series was published over the course of four weekly issues at ten cents per issue, can these really be called “dime novels” when it would cost the reader forty cents to read the entire novel?
We especially like this series at Travelyn Publishing because it offered many first-rate Age of Sail novels, for which we have a predilection.