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Chapbook

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, chapbook means: A small, usually inexpensive booklet containing poems, tales, or other short writing.

In Turkish: küçük edebiyat kitapçığı, chapbook

How it is used

Use in publishing history and contemporary poetry for a modest booklet rather than a full-length collection.

Example sentences

  1. The poet published her first twelve poems in a hand-stitched chapbook.

    The booklet provides a small format for an early selection of poems.

  2. The archive's chapbook contains a popular tale once sold by travelling sellers.

    This example concerns the inexpensive historical circulation of stories.

Common collocations

  • poetry chapbook
  • publish a chapbook
  • poetryLiterary writing arranged in lines that uses rhythm, sound, imagery and often rhyme to express feelings and ideas in a concentrated way.
  • short storyA piece of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting, usually focusing on a few characters and a single main event or moment.

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