Chick lit: History and Key Facts
"Chick lit" is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at women.
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Chivalric romance: History and Key Facts
As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe.
Term Catalogue: History and Key Facts
A Term Catalogue (German: Messkatalog) is a serial publication compiled to inform customers—most importantly book traders from other cities—of the book production as available on the book fairs.
Bart Dickon: History and Key Facts
Bart Dickon is a character created by artist and writer Borin Van Loon.
Publishing: History and Key Facts
Publishing is the process of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, whether in physical or digital form, available to the public for sale or free of charge.
African Books Collective: History and Key Facts
The African Books Collective (ABC) is a nonprofit distribution and marketing collective owned by African publishers.
John Doe (comics): History and Key Facts
John Doe is an Italian comic book by Roberto Recchioni and Lorenzo Bartoli, published by Eura Editoriale.
Collage novel: History and Key Facts
Collage novel is used by different writers and readers to describe three different kinds of novel: 1) a form of artist's book approaching closely (but preceding) the graphic novel; 2) a literary
Closet screenplay: History and Key Facts
Related to closet drama, a closet screenplay is a screenplay intended not to be produced/performed but instead to be read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group.
Doomlord: History and Key Facts
Doomlord is a British comic character, appearing in strips published by IPC Magazines.
Book design: History and Key Facts
Book design is the graphic art of determining the visual and physical characteristics of a book.
Book packaging: History and Key Facts
Book packaging, or book producing, is a publishing activity in which an individual or outside company independently develops and produces a book, performing the creative and production work that
Confessional writing: History and Key Facts
Confessional writing is a literary style and genre that developed in American writing schools following the Second World War.
Ed the Happy Clown: History and Key Facts
Ed the Happy Clown is a graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown.
Bookbinding: History and Key Facts
Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated process
Contemporary romance: History and Key Facts
Contemporary romance is a subgenre of contemporary and romance novels that have been published after 1945 and the Second World War.
A Dreadful Temptation: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Dreadful Temptation by Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 27 original MP3 tracks, 4:45:36 running time and a link to listen.
A Dreamer's Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 16 original MP3 tracks, 3:55:59 running time and a link to listen.
A Gift: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Gift by Amy Lowell: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 16 original MP3 tracks, 13:39 running time and a link to listen.
A History of California: The Spanish Period: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A History of California: The Spanish Period by Charles Edward Chapman: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 36 original MP3 tracks, 20:09:26 running time and a link to listen.
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II by Justin McCarthy: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 30 original MP3 tracks, 11:29:50 running time and a link to listen.
A Japanese Boy: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 14 original MP3 tracks, 3:40:47 running time and a link to listen.
A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 57 original MP3 tracks, 26:57:21 running time and a link to listen.
A Late Good Night: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Late Good Night by Robert F. Murray: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 11 original MP3 tracks, 14:47 running time and a link to listen.
A Life's Morning: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Life's Morning by George Gissing: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 33 original MP3 tracks, 17:20:08 running time and a link to listen.
A Lincoln Conscript: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Lincoln Conscript by Homer Greene: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 12 original MP3 tracks, 4:30:59 running time and a link to listen.
A Lost Lady: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Lost Lady by Willa Sibert Cather: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 18 original MP3 tracks, 3:51:22 running time and a link to listen.
A Maiden To Her Mirror: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Maiden To Her Mirror by Ella Wheeler Wilcox: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 16 original MP3 tracks, 22:37 running time and a link to listen.
Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities by W. S. Gilbert: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 9 original MP3 tracks, 16:44 running time and a link to listen.
A Marriage at Sea: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 15 original MP3 tracks, 6:54:54 running time and a link to listen.
Crime fiction: History and Key Facts
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on the in
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: History and Key Facts
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers is an underground comic about a fictional trio of stoner characters, created by the American artist Gilbert Shelton.
Cerlalc: History and Key Facts
The Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and Caribbean (CERLALC) (Spanish: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe, Portuguese: Centro Regio
Castoff (publishing): History and Key Facts
In book publishing, casting off is the process of estimating the number of signatures required to typeset a manuscript.
Dime novel: History and Key Facts
The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions.
Domestic noir: History and Key Facts
Domestic noir is a literary subgenre within crime fiction.
Domestic tragedy: History and Key Facts
In English drama, a domestic tragedy is a tragedy in which the tragic protagonists are ordinary middle-class or working-class individuals.
Ecofiction: History and Key Facts
Ecofiction (also "eco-fiction" or "eco fiction") is the branch of literature that encompasses nature or environment-oriented works of fiction.
Endpaper: History and Key Facts
The endpapers or end-papers of a book (also known as the endsheets) are the pages that consist of a double-size sheet folded, with one half pasted against an inside cover (the pastedown), and the
Electronic literature: History and Key Facts
Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature where digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or algorithmic text generation are used aesthetically.