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One of the earliest series fiction, and according to Watson the first American one, was the Leatherstocking Tales series by James Fenimore Cooper, which began in 1823 with The Pioneers. [2]: 537–538 Some of these first appeared in the form of dime novels, and many were aimed at less demanding readers, including youths.
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A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher.
Examples from folk and classical literature [ edit ] The Anansi tales, which center on the Ashanti of Ghana trickster spider-spirit Anansi, and its variations in the Americas as Ti Malice and Bouki in Haiti, Br'er Rabbit or John and Old Master in the Southern United States .
Oxford Companions is a book series published by Oxford University Press, providing general knowledge within a specific area. [1] The first book published in the series was The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1932), compiled by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey.
The formula is limited to structure of the plot itself. It does not include conventional, stereotypical elements of the genre used for the story background. Genres like high fantasy, westerns, and space opera (an adventure story in a science fiction setting) often have specific settings, such as a pseudo-Medieval European setting, the Old West, or outer space.
This is a list of books published as Penguin Classics.. In 1996, Penguin Books published as a paperback A Complete Annotated Listing of Penguin Classics and Twentieth-Century Classics (ISBN 0-14-771090-1).