"Kiosk literature" (literatura de kiosco), were sold at kiosks on the street in Spain and encompass a great number of different subjects and subgenres within the genre of the novelette, from the comic genre, the detective novel, and the novel of adventures, to the novel for women, the romance novel, the erotic novel, and the illustrated novel. The collection consists of short novels, poetry collections, and theater collections, works by famous Spanish writers, Latin American authors, and international writers in translation. Furthermore, the collection showcases intriguing "new" genres in the realm of the short novel, such as scientific novelettes dealing with the history and genesis of scientific discoveries, with different episodes of the Spanish Civil War, with the lives of popular cabaret singers and actresses, and with a series of sporting events.

Pulp literature of this kind, known as "Kiosk literature" (literatura de kiosco) because it was sold at kiosks on the street, encompasses a great number of different subjects and subgenres within the genre of the novelette, from the comic genre, the detective novel, and the novel of adventures, to the novel for women, the romance novel, the erotic novel, and the illustrated novel.

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