He had been working on a series of newspaper articles about historical tourism in Paris and was convinced to turn them into a sensationalist melodramatic novel.

Bianca - the servant of Matilda who serves as the comic relief of the otherwise highly melodramatic novel.

Hugo explains both names as the product of Mme Thénadier's love of "stupid romances", melodramatic novels on exotic themes with exaggeratedly noble characters.

At such moments, the reader can only regret that he has been wasted in such a needlessly contrived and melodramatic novel.

It was based on a melodramatic novel by Florence Warden.

Eugene Aram is a melodramatic novel by the British writer Edward George Bulwer-Lytton first published in 1832.

Caravan is a melodramatic novel by the British writer Lady Eleanor Smith first published in 1942.

Slightly more promising as a source of cinematic entertainment were the melodramatic novels to which Barker and others turned for narrative material.

The Woman of Knockaloe: A Parable is a melodramatic novel by the British writer Hall Caine which was first published in 1923.

Foul Play is an 1869 melodramatic or sensation novel by the British writer Charles Reade.