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Com um total de 800.000 palavras e quase 1.000 personagens dramáticas em 120 capítulos, a obra é considerada um dos quatro grandes romances clássicos da literatura chinesa, e sua leitura é muito comum no país. Houve inúmeras edições e, durante as dinastias Ming e Qing, livreiros lançaram versões ilustradas para aumentar as vendas.
English: This Romantic era poem, published in 1851 and likely written by Hercules Ellis, tells the story of the Irish folk legend Stingy Jack - A.K.A. Jack-o'-Lantern. The 1851 book source is titled The Rhyme Book.
The Seven Books of the Diana (Spanish: Los siete libros de la Diana) is a pastoral romance written in Spanish by the Portuguese author Jorge de Montemayor. The romance was first published in 1559, though later editions expanded upon the original text.
Romance novels are divided into two sub-sets, category romances, also known as series romances, and single title romances. [1] Many authors write only within one of the formats, but others, including Jennifer Crusie and Jayne Ann Krentz , have achieved success in both formats.
The list includes more unusual publications, such as The Pocket Purity Cook Book and Livre de cuisine Purity: petit format, which featured Purity Flour Mills publications in a smaller size. #71, titled Bouquet Knitter's Guide, is another early example of Harlequin publishing a non-romance title under their Harlequin Romance brand.
Reading the Romance is a book by Janice Radway that analyzes the Romance novel genre using reader-response criticism, first published in 1984 and reprinted in 1991.The 1984 edition of the book is composed of an introduction, six chapters, and a conclusion, structured partly around Radway's investigation of romance readers in Smithton (a pseudonym) and partly around Radway's own criticism.
María del Socorro Tellado López (25 April 1927 in El Franco, Asturias, Spain – 11 April 2009), known as Corín Tellado, was a prolific Spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels that were best-sellers in several Spanish-language countries.
A romancero is a collection of Spanish romances, a type of folk ballad (sung narrative). The romancero is the entire corpus of such ballads. As a distinct body of literature they borrow themes such as war, honour, aristocracy and heroism from epic poetry, especially the medieval cantar de gesta and chivalric romance, and they often have a pretense of historicity.