Abstract
The most popular genres at the end of the twentieth century were virtually the same as at its beginning — an overwhelming percentage of fiction concentrated either on crime detection and mystery or on women’s romance. Such fiction accounted for at least 50 per cent of all genre purchases, whilst ‘general’ fiction and other series accounted for the rest.
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Television Adaptation Genre Categorisation Historical Romance Popular Fiction Traditional Public School
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