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Bannon's books have, with the benefit of time, been described in vastly different terms, from "literary works" among pulp contemporaries, [55] to "libidinised trash". [58] However disparately Bannon's books are described in feminist and lesbian literary retrospectives, almost every mention concedes the significance of The Beebo Brinker ...
The White Wolf Edgeworks Series was originally scheduled to consist of 31 titles reprinted over the course of 20 omnibus volumes. Although an ISBN was created for Edgeworks. 5 (1998), which was to contain both Glass Teat books, this title never appeared. The series is notorious for its numerous typographical errors. [10]
Series of books (29 C, 434 P) L. Literature first published in serial form (2 C, 145 P) N. ... Literary trilogies (10 C, 82 P) Pages in category "Literary series"
World's Best Reading is a series of classic books published by Reader's Digest beginning in 1982. The series is distributed as a mail order membership club. In addition some individual volumes are available for sale directly through the Reader's Digest website.
The books were marketed as a cheap and accessible series for the general public to read some of the greatest works of literature: “Cheaply and in little shelf space, the general reader can build up a library of those books, which, having become part of himself, he wishes now to make a part of his home.” [5]
Some works in a series can stand alone—they can be read in any order, as each book makes few, if any, reference to past events, and the characters seldom, if ever, change. Many of these series books may be published in a numbered series. Examples of such series are works like The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Nick Carter.
A heptalogy (/ h ɛ p ˈ t æ l ə dʒ i /; from Greek ἑπτα-hepta-, "seven" and -λογία-logia, "discourse") is a compound literary or narrative work that is made up of seven distinct works. [1] While not in wide usage, it has been used to describe such examples as the Harry Potter series of books, [2] and The Chronicles of Narnia. [3]
At that time, books remained a premium item, so to reduce the price and expand the market, publishers produced large works in lower-cost instalments called fascicles. [2] These had the added attraction of allowing a publisher to gauge the popularity of a work without incurring the expense of a substantial print run of bound volumes: if the work ...