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  2. Penny dreadful - Wikipedia

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    Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, [1] and penny blood. [2] The term typically referred to a story published in weekly parts of 8 to 16 pages, each costing one penny. [3]

  3. List of memoirs by first ladies of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The book sold very well, remaining on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than three months. [6] [8] Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming was published in 2018. She received over $60 million in advance of publication, and the book had sold over 11.5 million copies as of November 2019.

  4. Sensationalism - Wikipedia

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    e. In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality, and may cause a manipulation to the ...

  5. Sensation novel - Wikipedia

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    Sensation novel. The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved peak popularity in Great Britain in the 1860s and 1870s, [1] centering taboo material shocking to its readers as a means of musing on contemporary social anxieties. Its literary forebears included the melodramatic novels and the Newgate ...

  6. Truth (Melbourne newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    400,000 (peak) Truth was a Melbourne tabloid newspaper established in 1902 as a subsidiary of Sydney's Truth. [1] It was "a sensational weekly paper with a large circulation, delighting while shocking its readers with its frequent exposure of personal scandal and social injustice. Detailed police and court reports, illustrated by drawings and ...

  7. Weekly World News - Wikipedia

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    www.weeklyworldnews.com. ISSN. 0199-574X. OCLC. 6010349. The Weekly World News is a tabloid formerly published in a newspaper format reporting mostly fictional "news" stories in the United States from 1979 to 2007. The paper was renowned for its outlandish cover stories often based on supernatural or paranormal themes and an approach to news ...

  8. BBC list of 100 most inspiring novels - Wikipedia

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    Five Canadian books are on the list: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, Unless by Carol Shields, Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and American War by Omar El Akkad. ^ Sola Budunrin (10 November 2019). "Things Fall Apart, Half of A Yellow Sun named in the list of 100 novels that shaped the world".

  9. The Amazing Spider-Man - Wikipedia

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    The series began as a bimonthly periodical before being increased to monthly after four issues. It was the character's sole monthly headlining title until Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man launched in 1976. [1] After 441 issues, The Amazing Spider-Man was restarted in 1999 as issue No. 1 of Volume 2.

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