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The Ego and His Own (New York: B. R. Tucker, 1907), by Max Stirner, trans. by Steven T. Byington- Protagoras, Nietzsche, Stirner: Platz dem Egoismus! (in German; Berlin: L. Simion Nf., 1914), by Benedict Lachmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Eagle and the Serpent (1898-1902), ed. by John Erwin McCall (partial serial archives)
- The Individual and World Need (Rifton, NY et al.: Plough Publishing House, c2011), by Eberhard Arnold (PDF at plough.com)
- Narcissus: A Psychological Study of Self-Love (New York: Macmillan, 1955), by Grace Croll Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (New York and London: New York University Press, c1994), by Marshall W. Alcorn (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
- The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by David Greven (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages (originally published 1966; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter Ullmann (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- One is a Crowd: Reflections of an Individualist (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1952), by Frank Chodorov, contrib. by John Chamberlain (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
- Toward a Liberalism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Richard E. Flathman (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Myth of the Individual (New York: John Day Co., 1927), by Charles Wesley Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ego and His Own (New York: B. R. Tucker, 1907), by Max Stirner, trans. by Steven T. Byington
- The Free Man and the Soldier: Essays on the Reconciliation of Liberty and Discipline (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1916), by Ralph Barton Perry
- Pour la Vie (published under author's "Alexandra Myrial" pseudonym, in Bibliothèque des "Temps Nouveaux" #25, in French; ca. 1901), by Alexandra David-Néel, contrib. by Elisée Reclus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Private Rights and Government Control: Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, Held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., September 4, 1917 (Washington: GPO, 1917), by George Sutherland
- À Chacun sa Quête: Essais sur les Nouveaux Visages de la Transcendance (in French; Sainte-Foy, QC: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2000), ed. by Yves Boisvert and Lawrence Olivier (PDF files at Project MUSE)
- The Individual Under Socialism: A Lecture (London: Independent Labour Party, ca. 1905), by Philip Snowden (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Rights of Man (c1940), by Harold J. Laski (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Human Nature and the Social Order (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906), by Charles Horton Cooley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Human Nature and the Social Order (revised edition, 1922), by Charles Horton Cooley
- L'Individualisme Anarchiste Max Stirner (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1904), by Victor Basch
- The Man Versus the State, by Herbert Spencer (text at McMaster)
- The Reconciliation of Government with Liberty (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by John William Burgess
- Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: The Unbridgeable Chasm, by Murray Bookchin (HTML at theanarchistlibrary.org)
- Liberalism Fights On (New York: Macmillan, 1936), by Ogden Livingston Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
- Political Ideals, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)
- Protagoras, Nietzsche, Stirner: Platz dem Egoismus! (in German; Berlin: L. Simion Nf., 1914), by Benedict Lachmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Private and Public Social Inventions in Modern Societies (Washington: Paideia Press and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Leon Dyczewski, John Kromkowski, and Paul Peachey (multiple formats at Google)
- Private and Public Social Inventions in Modern Societies (Washington: Paideia Press and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Leon Dyczewski, John Kromkowski, and Paul Peachey (multiple formats at Google)
- The New Freewoman (complete run, 1913), ed. by Dora Marsden (full serial archives)
- The New Freewoman (complete run, 1913), ed. by Dora Marsden (full serial archives)
- American Individualism (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Herbert Hoover
- Screen Guide for Americans, by Ayn Rand (PDF page images at MSU)
- Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Horizons of Enchantment: Essays in the American Imaginary (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2011), by Lene Johannessen (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
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Filed under: Economic man- Modeling Bounded Rationality (1998), by Ariel Rubinstein (PDF in Israel)
- The New Approach to Freedom, Together With Essays on the Separation of Money and State, by Edwin C. Riegel, ed. by Spencer Heath McCallum (HTML at newapproachtofreedom.info)
- Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Helmut Lethen, trans. by Don Reneau (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Family Instructions for the Yan Clan, and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531-590s) (in Chinese and English; Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, c2021), by Yan Zhitui, ed. by Paul W. Kroll, trans. by Xiaofei Tian (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)
- Live Simple: Radical Tactics to Reduce the Clutter, Complexity, and Costs of Your Life (electronic edition, 2000), by John December (HTML with commentary at december.com)
- An Eternal Career (Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, c1947), by Frank L. Hammer and Lydia Hammer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Will as Commitment and Resolve: An Existential Account of Creativity, Love, Virtue, and Happiness (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007), by John J. Davenport (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- The Rossi Formula for Maximum Happiness: A Philosophy of Life (New York: Exposition Press, c1972), by Emidio J. Rossi (HTML with commentary at Verizon)
- I Dare You! (10th edition; St. Louis: Privately printed, 1941), by William H. Danforth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- I Dare You! (second edition; St. Louis: Privately printed, 1932), by William H. Danforth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Lorenz on Leadership: Lessons on Effectively Leading People, Teams, and Organizations (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2012), by Stephen R. Lorenz (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
- Above Life's Turmoil, by James Allen (HTML at wwwhubs.com)
- Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women, on the Various Duties of Life, by G. S. Weaver (page images at MOA)
- Ars Recte Vivendi: Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair", by George William Curtis (Gutenberg text)
- The Art of Being Alive: Success Through Thought (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1914), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Byways of Blessedness, by James Allen (HTML at worldspirituality.org)
- The Catholic Action Principles, by Bill FitzPatrick (HTML and PDF at Wayback Machine)
- Cobbett's Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject (London: H. Frowde, 1906), by William Cobbett (Gutenberg text)
- The Conduct of Life (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1860), by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Conduct of Life (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., 1903), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, contrib. by Andrew Jackson George
- Counsels and Maxims, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
- The Economy of Human Life (this edition attributed to Dodsley, with illustrations "by F. Howard, Harvey, Williams, etc."; London: John van Voorst, 1834), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by F. Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Economy of Human Life, in Two Books (this edition attributed to Dodsley; London: Printed for Shirley, Neely, and Jones, et al., 1809), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Frederick Mackenzie, W. M. Craig, and Thomas Uwins (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Economy of Human Life: Translated From an Indian Manuscript, Written by An Ancient Bramin (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; London: Printed for T. Tegg, 1811), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Economy of Human Life, Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Manner in Which the Said Manuscript Was Discovered (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1807), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Alexander Anderson (page images at Google)
- Eight Pillars of Prosperity, by James Allen (HTML at in1woord.nl)
- The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
- The Every Day of Life, by J. R. Miller (HTML at jr-miller.com)
- First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
- Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success, by James Allen, ed. by Lily L. Allen (HTML at in1woord.nl)
- From a College Window, by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
- From Passion to Peace, by James Allen (HTML at in1woord.nl)
- The Girl Wanted: A Book of Friendly Thoughts (Chicago: Forbes and Co., 1919), by Nixon Waterman (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Hopes and Helps for the Young of Both Sexes, by G. S. Weaver (page images at MOA)
- How to Live Quietly (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Annie Payson Call (PDF at soilandhealth.org)
- The Human Evasion, by Celia Green
- The Human Machine, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- Just Common Sense (second edition; New York: Silent Partner Co., c1920), by F. D. Van Amburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar Essays, by J. G. Holland
- Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady (London: Printed for J. Sharpe by C. Whittingham, 1822), by Mrs. Chapone (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life in the Sick-Room: Essays (second American edition; Boston: W. Crosby, 1845), by Harriet Martineau, contrib. by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (page images at Google)
- Life in the Sick-Room: Essays by an Invalid (second edition; London: E. Moxon, 1844), by Harriet Martineau (page images at Google)
- Life Without Principle, by Henry David Thoreau (HTML at monadnock.net)
- Life's Enthusiasms (1906), by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
- Looking Out on Life: A Book for Girls on Practical Subjects Based on Many Letters From Wise Mothers (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1892), by Francis E. Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Love, Life and Work: Being a Book of Opinions, Reasonably Good-Natured, Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self With the Least Possible Harm to Others (1906), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text)
- The Majesty of Calmness: Individual Problems and Possibilities, by William George Jordan (Gutenberg text)
- Man and His Motives, by George Moore (page images at MOA)
- Man: King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance, by James Allen (HTML at in1woord.nl)
- Men and Systems, by James Allen (HTML at in1woord.nl)
- Mental Efficiency, and Other Hints to Men and Women (New York: George H, Doran, c1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- Menticulture: or, The A-B-C of True Living (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1895), by Horace Fletcher (Gutenberg text)
- Mile Stones in Our Life-Journey, by Samuel Osgood (page images at MOA)
- Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life: Being Several Feigned Stories, Comical, Tragical, Tragi-Comical, Poetical, Romanicical, Philosophical, Historical, and Moral (second edition; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1671), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- New Thought Common Sense, and What Life Means to Me (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., c1908), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On Being Human, by Woodrow Wilson (Gutenberg text)
- Out From the Heart, by James Allen (HTML at in1woord.nl)
- The Plain Man and His Wife, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects, by J. G. Holland (page images at MOA)
- The Pleasures of Life (longer edition, from 1890 or later), by John Lubbock (Gutenberg text)
- The Pleasures of Life (shorter version than later editions; New York: John Alden, 1887), by John Lubbock (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- The Probe: or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things (Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber and Co., 1846), by L. Carroll Judson
- Rational Living: Some Practical Inferences from Modern Psychology (New York and London: Macmillan, 1912), by Henry Churchill King (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Royal Manhood (Chicago et al.: F. H. Revell Co., 1899), by James I. Vance
- Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance, by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text)
- Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance (based on the 1890 J. Murray edition, with additional notes and images), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (HTML in the UK)
- Self-Measurement: A Scale of Human Values with Directions for Personal Application (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916), by William De Witt Hyde (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sermons Out of Church (1876), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Shining Gateway, by James Allen, ed. by Lily L. Allen (HTML at in1woord.nl)
- Ships and Havens (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, c1897), by Henry Van Dyke (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- The Skeleton in the Closet (Riverside, CT: F. C. Bursch, 1914), by Clarence Darrow (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sowing and Reaping (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1900), by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Things to Live For, by J. R. Miller (HTML at jr-miller.com)
- Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and Married (10th edition; New York: C. Scribmner, 1858), by J. G. Holland (multiple formats at Google)
- Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)
- The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Albert Parlette (Gutenberg text)
- A Way of Life: An Address to Yale Students, Sunday Evening, April 20th, 1913, by William Osler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Way to Happiness (main text of Scientology-promoted ethical guide; electronic edition), by L. Ron Hubbard (illustrated HTML with commentary at thewaytohappiness.org)
- What All the World's A-Seeking: or, The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness, Power and Happiness (revised edition; New York: T. Crowell and Co., c1899), by Ralph Waldo Trine
- What All the World's A-Seeking: or, The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness, Power and Happiness (revised edition; New York: Dodge Publishing Co., n.d.), by Ralph Waldo Trine (Gutenberg text)
- What is Worth While? (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1893), by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (page images at Michigan)
- When a Man Comes to Himself, by Woodrow Wilson (Gutenberg text)
- The Wisdom of Life, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
- A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1883), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1910), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Self Improvement (New York et al.: Benziger Bros., 1939), by Rudolf Allers (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art of Living (Dover, OH: K. Potschner, c1935), by Karl Potschner (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Address Delivered at Cumming, Georgia, February, 1844, on the Rise and Progress of Society and the Formation of Government (New Haven: Printed for the author, 1844), by S. Watson Royston (page images at HathiTrust)
- The American Citizen: His Rights and Duties, According to the Spirit of the Constitution of the United States, by John Henry Hopkins (page images at MOA)
- The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry (1906 edition), by Geoffroy de La Tour Landry (HTML at Michigan)
- The Call of the Twentieth Century: An Address to Young Men (1903), by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
- A Christmas Sermon, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Conduct of Life, by Benedetto Croce, trans. by Arthur Livingston (text at Gutenberg Australia)
- Essays on Work and Culture, by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Gutenberg text)
- Familiar Letters to Young Men on Various Subjects, by William A. Alcott (page images at MOA)
- A Fleece of Gold: Five Lessons from the Tale of Jason and Golden Fleece (second edition, 1905), by Charles Stewart Given (Gutenberg text)
- Forewarned-Forearmed (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, ca. 1885), by John Thain Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Game of Life and How to Play It, by Florence Scovel Shinn (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Girls and Women (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892), by Harriet E. Paine (page images at Harvard)
- Going to Refuge; Taking the Precepts, by Bhikkhu Bodhi (HTML at Access to Insight)
- Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them: or, Thrifty People and Why They Thrive (revised, with additional matter; Chicago: U. S. Publishing House, 1883), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by C. A. Gaskell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lawsonomy (3 volumes), by Alfred W. Lawson (HTML at lawsonomy.org)
- Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life in School -- But Didn't, by Peter McWilliams (HTML at drugsense.org)
- Masters of the Situation: or, Some Secrets of Success and Power (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1888), by William James Tilley
- A Message to Garcia, and Other Essays (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1924), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Persuaded Heart: A Woman's Potential for Genuine Freedom, by Gladys Hunt (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Politics and Spirituality: Can They Go Together?, by Sri Chinmoy (HTML at srichinmoylibrary.com)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Resurgent Culture, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML at Divine Life Society)
- Ruminations: The Ideal American Lady and Other Essays (second edition, 1894), by Paul Siegvolk (page images at HathiTrust)
- The "Sacred" Kurral of Tiruvalluva-Nayanar, With Introduction, Grammar, Notes (in Which are Reprinted Fr. C. J. Beschi's and F. W. Ellis' Versions) Lexicon, and Concordance (in Tamil and English; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Tiruvaḷḷuvar, ed. by G. U. Pope, contrib. by Costantino Giuseppe Beschi and Francis Whyte Ellis
- Seventh Anniversary Address Before the Platonian Literary Society of M'Kendree College, by Jonathan Baldwin Turner (page images at MOA)
- The Student's Manual, by John Todd (page images at MOA)
- Studies in Character Building: A Book for Parents (Battle Creek, MI: Good Health Pub. Co., c1905), by E. E. Kellogg
- Tirukkural (English translation and commentary), by Tiruvaḷḷuvar, ed. by G. U. Pope, W. H. Drew, and John Lazarus, contrib. by Francis Whyte Ellis (HTML at Project Madurai)
- A True Story in Allegory, by Lottie L. Jarvis (HTML at timelesstruths.org)
- Facing Life Fearlessly: The Pessimistic Versus the Optimistic View of Life, by Clarence Darrow (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Liao-Fan's Four Lessons (electronic transcription of audio edition), by Liaofan Yuan, ed. by Police Officer Wang (HTML at apace.us)
- Life at Threescore and Ten (New York, American Tract Society, c1871), by Albert Barnes
- Practical, Sharp, Eccentric and Humorous Prison-Life Thoughts! (Philadelphia: Landis publishing society, 1872), by Simon M. Landis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Testimony for Truth Against All Hireling Priests and Deceivers, by Judith Boulbie (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Three Things (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
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