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• The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)

• Daisy's Aunt (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, c1910), by E. F. Benson (Gutenberg text and illusrated HTML)
• Maailmankaupunki: Romaani ("The Metropolis" in Finnish; 1911), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• The Metropolis, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Democracy: An American Novel, by Henry Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gutenberg text)
• The Beautiful and Damned (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Willis Bardwell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Rahanvaihtajat (The Moneychangers translated into Finnish; 1915), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg text)
• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text

• Bab: A Sub-Deb (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1917), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Evelina (based on the 1903 Macmillan edition, with additional illustrations from other editions), by Fanny Burney, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson, W. Cubitt Cooke, and Arthur Rackham (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World, by Fanny Burney
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

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• Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Celebrity Persona Pandemic (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), by P. David Marshall (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Jenny Jones: My Story (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Pub., c1997), by Jenny Jones, contrib. by Patsi Bale Cox (PDF at jennyjones.com)

• Fennel and Rue, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)

• Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Julia H. Fawcett
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Wits and Beaux of Society (New York: Harper and Bros., 1861), by A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and James Godwin (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Wits and Beaux of Society (2 volumes; 1890), by Mrs. A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, ed. by Justin H. McCarthy, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and James Godwin
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Harper's Bazaar (partial serial archives)

• Radio Stars (full serial archives)

• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)

• Social Register, Buffalo (partial serial archives)

• Beyond Black: Celebrity and Race in Obama's America (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Ernest Cashmore (HTML at bloomsburycollections.com)

• The Private World of High Society (New York: D. McKay Co., c1960), by Lucy Kavaler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)

• Jenny Jones: My Story (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Pub., c1997), by Jenny Jones, contrib. by Patsi Bale Cox (PDF at jennyjones.com)

• Radio Round-Ups: Intimate Glimpses of the Radio Stars, by Joseph Gurman and Myron Slager (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• You're on the Air (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by Graham McNamee and Robert Gordon Anderson, contrib. by Heywood Broun (multiple formats at Google)

• You're on the Air (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by Graham McNamee and Robert Gordon Anderson, contrib. by Heywood Broun (multiple formats at Google)

• Fifty Fabulous Years, 1900-1950: A Personal Review (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1950), by H. v. Kaltenborn (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)

• Fifty Fabulous Years, 1900-1950: A Personal Review (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1950), by H. v. Kaltenborn (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

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