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• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Military Cryptanalysis (4 volumes originally issued 1938-1941; declassified version published 2005), by William F. Friedman (PDF files at nsa.gov)
• Mathematics and Computation: A Theory Revolutionizing Technology and Science (prepublication version, c2019), by Avi Wigderson (PDF with commentary at ias.edu)
• Cryptography and Data Security (Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley, c1982), by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning (PDF at npos.edu)
• Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design (1998), by Electronic Frontier Foundation (HTML at cryptome.org and other sites)
• Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society (prepublication copy), ed. by Kenneth Dam and Herbert Lin (HTML and page images at NAP)
• Cracking Codes with Python, by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithpython.com)
• The Mathematical and Philosophical Works Of the Right Reverend John Wilkins (London: Printed for J. Nicholson, 1708), by John Wilkins (page images at Google)

• An Historical and Analytical Bibliography of the Literature of Cryptology (Northwestern University studies in the humanities #10; Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1945), by Joseph S. Galland (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Handbook of Applied Cryptography, by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. Van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone (PDF and Postscript files with commentary at Waterloo)

• Basic Cryptanalysis (FM 34-40-2, 1990), by United States Army (PDF and Postscript files at Michigan)

• The Joy of Cryptography (2021), by Mike Rosulek (PDF with commentary at joyofcryptography.com)

• It Wasn't All Magic: The Early Struggle to Automate Cryptanalysis, 1930s-1960s (originally published by NSA Center for Cryptologic History, 2002; redacted declassified version released 2013), by Colin B. Burke
  • PDF at governmentattic.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Venona Story (Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, ca. 2001), by Robert Louis Benson (PDF at nsa.gov)
• American Cryptology During the Cold War, 1945-1989 (4 volumes; declassified redacted version, published 1995-1999), by Thomas R. Johnson
  • Book 1 (1945-1960): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 2 (1960-1972): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 3 (1972-1980): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 4 (1981-1989): PDF at nsa.gov

• The Korean War: The SIGINT Background (2000), by David A. Hatch and Robert Louis Benson (HTML at nsa.gov)
• The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940-1952 (United States Cryptologic History, series V, volume 1; declassified redacted version; 1990), by Thomas L. Burns (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957 (1996), ed. by Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner (PDF files with commentary at cia.gov)

• Code Talkers: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, on Contributions of Native American Code Talkers in American Military History (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
  • PDF at govinfo.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• So Power Can Be Brought Into Play: SIGINT and the Pusan Perimeter (originally published 2000), by Jill Frahm (HTML at nsa.gov)

• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Most Secret War: Army Signals Intelligence in Vietnam (Fort Belvoir, VA: Military History Office, US Army Intelligence and Security Command, 2003), by James L. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the Indochina War, 1945-1975 (US cryptologic history series VI v. 7, declassified redacted version (2007); with supplementary file of additional declassified portions released 2008), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF files with commentary at fas.org)

• Code Talkers: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, on Contributions of Native American Code Talkers in American Military History (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
  • PDF at govinfo.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)
• Code Talkers: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, on Contributions of Native American Code Talkers in American Military History (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
  • PDF at govinfo.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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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