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Three-volume novel, the Glossary

The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century.^[1]

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Novel forms
Three-volume novels

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era.

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Archibald Constable

Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 – 21 July 1827) was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer.

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Book series

A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group.

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British Newspaper Archive

The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Charles Edward Mudie (18 October 1818 – 28 October 1890), English publisher and founder of Mudie's Lending Library and Mudie's Subscription Library, was the son of a second-hand bookseller and newsagent.

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Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten.

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Circulating library

A circulating library (also known as lending libraries and rental libraries) lent books to subscribers, and was first and foremost a business venture.

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Emma (novel)

Emma is a novel written by English author Jane Austen.

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Fiction

Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.

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G. A. Henty

George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent.

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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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Haruki Murakami

is a Japanese writer.

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Henry Colburn

Henry Colburn (1784 – 16 August 1855) was a British publisher.

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and magistrate known for the use of humour and satire in his works.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.

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John Cowper Powys

John Cowper Powys (8 October 187217 June 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879.

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Kenilworth (novel)

Kenilworth. Three-volume novel and Kenilworth (novel) are three-volume novels.

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics.

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Maidenhead

Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames.

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton.

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen.

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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.

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Octavo

Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Partwork

A partwork is a written publication released as a series of planned magazine-like issues over a period of time.

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Penny dreadful

Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom.

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Persuasion (novel)

Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen.

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Philip Gaskell

Philip Gaskell (6 January 1926 – 31 July 2001) was a British bibliographer and librarian.

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813.

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Publishing

Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.

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Rhoda Broughton

Rhoda Broughton (29 November 1840 – 5 June 1920) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer.

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Richard Bentley (publisher)

Richard Bentley (24 October 1794 – 10 September 1871) was a 19th-century English publisher born into a publishing family.

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Richard Jefferies

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.

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Rob Roy (novel)

Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels.

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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility is the first novel by the English author Jane Austen, published in 1811.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Stanley Unwin (publisher)

Sir Stanley Unwin, KCMG (19 December 1884 – 13 October 1968) was a British publisher, who founded the Allen & Unwin publishing firm.

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Subscription library

A subscription library (also membership library or independent library) is a library that is financed by private funds either from membership fees or endowments.

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The Critic as Artist

"The Critic as Artist" is an essay by Oscar Wilde, containing the most extensive statements of his aesthetic philosophy.

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The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding.

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The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, also known as Tristram Shandy, is a novel by Laurence Sterne.

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The London Journal

The London Journal; and Weekly Record of Literature, Science and Art (published from 1845 to 1928) was a British penny fiction weekly, one of the best-selling magazines of the nineteenth century.

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Three-volume novel and the Lord of the Rings are three-volume novels.

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The Return of the King

The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

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The Silmarillion

The Silmarillion is a book consisting of a collection of myths and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Star (1788)

The Star was a London evening newspaper founded on 3 May 1788, originally under the title Star and Evening Advertiser, and was the first daily evening newspaper in the world.

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The Story of a Modern Woman

The Story of a Modern Woman is a novel written by English author Ella Hepworth Dixon.

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The Two Towers

The Two Towers is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

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The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope, published in London in 1875 after first appearing in serialised form.

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Three-volume novel and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle are three-volume novels.

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Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog),The Penguin edition punctuates the title differently: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog! published in 1889, is a humorous novel by English writer Jerome K. Jerome describing a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston.

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Three-decker

A three-decker was a sailing warship which carried her principal carriage-mounted guns on three fully armed decks.

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Trilogy

A trilogy is a set of three distinct works that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works.

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Victorian literature

Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian.

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Waverley (novel)

Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since is a historical novel by Walter Scott (1771–1832).

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WHSmith

WH Smith PLC, trading as WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son), is a British retailer, with headquarters in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery.

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-volume_novel

Also known as Novels in three volumes, Three volume, Three volume novel, Three volume novels, Three volumes, Three-volume, Three-volume novels.

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