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Literature

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Filed under: Fiction

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 (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook (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

Filed under: Fiction -- Authorship

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)

Filed under: Fiction -- Bibliography

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)
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)
Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Fiction -- Collections

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)

Filed under: Fiction -- Dictionaries

An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

Filed under: Fiction -- History and criticism

Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF and Flash with commentary at parlorpress.com)
Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stephen Gilman (HTML at UC Press)
The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes), by James Branch Cabell (HTML at Virginia)
The Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other Literary Essays (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of its Criticism and a Guide for its Study, With an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages From 1700 to 1800 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), by Philip Babcock Gove (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Fiction -- Periodicals

Blue Book Magazine (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Fiction -- Psychological aspects

Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)

Filed under: Fiction -- Stories, plots, etc.

Masterpieces of the Masters of Fiction (New York: The Cosmopolitan Press, 1912), by William Dudley Foulke (multiple formats at Indiana)

Filed under: Fiction -- Technique

Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Brian Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
Social Minds in the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Alan Palmer (PDF at Ohio State)
Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
How to Write Stories That Sell (Boston: The Writer, c1961), by Edward S. Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)
How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Richard Walsh (PDF at Ohio State)
The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Randolph Runyon (PDF at Ohio State)
Fundamentals of Fiction Writing (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Narrative Innovation and Incoherence: Ideology in Defoe, Goldsmith, Austen, Eliot, and Hemingway (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Michael M. Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by John A. Dussinger (PDF at Ohio State)
This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
- PDF at Ohio State
- PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
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)
Mrs. Radcliffe: Her Relation Towards Romanticism; With an Appendix on the Novels Falsely Ascribed to Her (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1926), by Alida Alberdina Sibbellina Wieten (page images at delpher.nl)

Filed under: Adventure stories

Afar in the Forest, by William Henry Giles Kingston
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- PDF and other formats at archive.org
Brown Wolf, and Other Jack London Stories, by Jack London, ed. by Franklin K. Mathiews (Gutenberg text)
The Crimson Gardenia, and Other Tales of Adventure (New York and London: Harper and Bros, 1916), by Rex Beach
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
Dutch Courage and Other Stories, by Jack London
- illustrated HTML at Sonoma
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
The Impregnable City: A Romance (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898), by Max Pemberton (multiple formats at archive.org)
A King in Khaki (illustrated; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1909), by Henry Kitchell Webster (page images at Google; US access only)
The Log of the Flying Fish: A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by Gordon Browne
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1919), by Arthur Stringer, illust. by Frank Snapp
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
Popular Adventure Tales: Comprising The Young Voyageurs, or, The Boy Hunters in the North; The Forest Exiles, or, Adventures Amid the Wilds of the Amazon; The Bush-Boys, or, Adventures in the Wilds of South Africa (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.; Glasgow: T. D. Morison, n.d.), by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea: Being Remarkable Historical Facts, Gathered From Authentic Sources, ed. by James O. Brayman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Yule Logs (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), ed. by G. A. Henty (multiple formats at archive.org)
Yule-Tide Yarns (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), ed. by G. A. Henty (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Adventures of Jack Pomeroy: A Book for Boys, by Peter William Darnton (page images at ufl.edu)
The Black Bar, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text)
The Crystal Stopper, by Maurice Leblanc (Gutenberg text)
Frank Merriwell's Bravery (c1903), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
The Gorilla Hunters, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
Patrañas: or, Spanish Stories, Legendary and Traditional (London: Griffith and Farran, 1870), by Rachel Harriette Busk, illust. by Edward Henry Corbould
- multiple formats at Google
- multiple formats at archive.org
The Pirate of the Mediterranean, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels (Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne et al., 1812), ed. by Henry Weber, contrib. by Jonathan Swift, Ludvig Holberg, Robert Paltock, Daniel Defoe, and Edward Gibbon (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rover's Secret, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by William Christian Symons
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
Stories From Famous Ballads, for Children (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Grace Greenwood, illust. by Hammatt Billings (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Sturdy and Strong: or, How George Andrews Made His Way (New York: Federal Book Co., n.d.), by G. A. Henty
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
Joe's Luck: or, Always Wide Awake, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)
Phantasmion (London: W. Pickering, 1837), by Sara Coleridge (multiple formats at Google)
Phantasmion: A Fairy Tale (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Sara Coleridge (multiple formats at archive.org)
Phantasmion: Prince of Palmland (2 volumes; New York: S. Colman, 1839), by Sara Coleridge, ed. by Grenville Mellen
- Volume I: multiple formats at Google
- Volume II: multiple formats at Google
A Pirate of the Caribbees, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by Charles J. De Lacy
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
The Wizard of the Sea: or, A Trip Under the Ocean, by Roy Rockwood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Nobody's Girl (En Famille) (New York: Cupples and Leon, 1922), by Hector Malot, trans. by Florence Crewe-Jones, illust. by Thelma Gooch
- page images at Google; US access only
- multiple format at archive.org
The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
Eileen's Journey: History in Fairyland (London: J. Murray, 1899), by Ernest Arthur Jelf, illust. by Laura Troubridge (page images at Florida)
The Log of a Privateersman, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille) (New York: Cupples and Leon, 1916), by Hector Malot, trans. by Florence Crewe-Jones, illust. by Johnny Gruelle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
On the Banks of the Amazon, by William Henry Giles Kingston
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- PDF and other formats at archive.org
The Princess Idleways: A Fairy Story (New York: Harper, c1879), by Helen Ashe Hays (multiple formats at archive.org)
Waldo and the Desert Island Adventure, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at childrensbooksforever.com)

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