They were infused with a sense of ridicule, irony, and wryness and frequently used his own misadventures as their theme. Perelman chose to describe these pieces as "feuilletons" — a French literary term meaning "literary or scientific articles; serial stories" (literally "little leaves") — and he defined himself as a "feuilletoniste". Perelman's only attempt at a conventional novel ("Parlor, Bedlam and Bath", written in collaboration with Q.J. Reynolds) was unsuccessful, and throughout his life he was resentful that authors who wrote in the full-length form of novels received more literary respect (and financial success) than short-form authors like himself even as he openly admired British humorist P.G. Wodehouse. While many believe "Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge" to be a novel, it is actually his first collection of humorous pieces, many written while he was a student at Brown. It is largely considered juvenilia , and its pieces were never included in future Perelman collections.