Three-volume novel

Not to be confused with Volume Three.
The title page of the first volume of the three-volume, first edition of Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins (1872)

The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker[note 1]) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century. It was a significant stage in the development of the modern novel as a form of popular literature in Western culture.

  1. ^ Kroesing, Nina (2019). "Mudie's Select Library and the Three-Decker Novel – A Mutual Failure?". Satura. 2: 32–39. doi:10.17879/satura-2019-3065. ISSN 2701-0201.


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