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• Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The Liber Peristephanon of Prudentius (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993), by Michael Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Illustrated Christian Martyrology: Being an Authentic and Genuine Historical Account of the Principal Persecutions Against the Church of Christ, in Different Parts of the World, by Pagans and Papists (Philadelphia: Leary and Getz, 1858), by C. Sparry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs: From the "De Ss. Martyrum Cruciatibus" of the Rev. Father Gallonio (limited edition; London and Paris: Printed for the subscribers, 1903), by Antonio Gallonio, ed. by A. R. Allinson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Edmund Campion: A Biography (new edition; London: John Hodges, 1896), by Richard Simpson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1914), by William Boulting (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain (1988), by Kenneth Baxter Wolf (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)

• Acts of English Martyrs, Hitherto Unpublished (London: Burns and Oates, 1891), by John Hungerford Pollen, contrib. by John Morris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorials of the English Martyrs (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), by Charles B. Tayler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the English Martyrs Declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII, in 1885 and 1895 (reissue, 2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), ed. by Bede Camm
  • Volume I (Martyrs Under Henry VIII): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Martyrs Under Queen Elizabeth): multiple formats at archive.org
• Forgotten Shrines: An Account of Some Old Catholic Halls and Families in England, and of Relics and Memorials of the England Martyrs (1910), by Bede Camm (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annals of the Persecution in Scotland From the Restoration to the Revolution (second American edition, 2 volumes; Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, ca. 1870), by James Aikman
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• A Briefe Historie of the Glorious Martyrdom of Twelve Reverend Priests, Father Edmund Campion and His Companions (London: Burns and Oates, 1908), by William Allen, ed. by John Hungerford Pollen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Edmund Campion: A Biography (new edition; London: John Hodges, 1896), by Richard Simpson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Der Einfluss Giordano Brunos auf den Dänisch-Deutschen Romantiker A. W. Schack von Staffeldt (dissertation in German; Kiel: H. Fiencke, 1916), by Johannes Precht (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Giordano Bruno (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by J. Lewis McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1914), by William Boulting (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher, by John Jacob Kessler (HTML at infidels.org)
• Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno, Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic, 1548-1600, by Coulson Turnbull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison With Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes (in English and German), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison With Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes (2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1914), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Fugitives: or, The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Martyrs of the Mohawk: Blessed Isaac Jogues, Blessed Reneé Goupil, Blessed John Lalande, of the Society of Jesus (New York: Apostleship of Prayer, 1926), by Thomas J. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain (1988), by Kenneth Baxter Wolf (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)

• Virgin Saints and Martyrs (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., 1901), by S. Baring-Gould, illust. by F. Anger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Antiquitates Apostolicae: or, The Lives, Acts, and Martyrdoms of the Holy Apostles of Our Saviour; To Which Are Added, Lives of the Two Evangelists, St. Mark and St. Luke; As Also, a Brief Enumeration and Account of the Apostles and Their Successors for the First Three Hundred Years, in the Five Great Apostolical Churches (2 volumes; London: J. Hatchard and Son; et al., 1834), by William Cave, contrib. by Henry Stebbing
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to The Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham, by W. D. Killen (Gutenberg text)

• The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to The Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham, by W. D. Killen (Gutenberg text)

• The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to The Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham, by W. D. Killen (Gutenberg text)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • 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
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oriental Literature (4 volumes in The Worlds Great Classics, revised editions; New York and London: Colonial Press, c1899-1900), ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Epiphanius Wilson
  • Volume I (The Literature of Persia, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (The Literature of Persia, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Literature of India): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (The Literatature of China): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

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