Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... serial ever published three times in one paper . The Hidden Hand was very long . Neither the editor of the Ledger nor Mrs. Southworth herself ever knew how long one of her serials was going to be when it was begun ; and they ran on and ...
... serial ever published three times in one paper . The Hidden Hand was very long . Neither the editor of the Ledger nor Mrs. Southworth herself ever knew how long one of her serials was going to be when it was begun ; and they ran on and ...
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... serial called Three Times Dead ; or , The Secret of the Heath to be printed in penny numbers , with violent woodcuts , by a local Yorkshire printer . But the printer went bankrupt ; a few years later Miss Braddon rewrote her story as ...
... serial called Three Times Dead ; or , The Secret of the Heath to be printed in penny numbers , with violent woodcuts , by a local Yorkshire printer . But the printer went bankrupt ; a few years later Miss Braddon rewrote her story as ...
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... serial in a boys ' paper , and its early sales as a book were slow . It was at first entitled The Sea - Cook ; but the editor of Young Folks , seizing upon the words " Treasure Island " in the opening sentence of the story , made the ...
... serial in a boys ' paper , and its early sales as a book were slow . It was at first entitled The Sea - Cook ; but the editor of Young Folks , seizing upon the words " Treasure Island " in the opening sentence of the story , made the ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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