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• English prose literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
• English prose literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100

• Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools, Compiled and Annotated, With Questions for Study, ed. by Emilie Kip Baker (Gutenberg text)

• Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification (second edition; London: J. Johnson, 1798), by Maria Edgeworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Epic to Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Daniel Bivona and Roger B. Henkle (PDF at Ohio State)
• Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2004), by Albert D. Pionke (PDF at Ohio State)
• Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Archaica: Containing a Reprint of Scarce Old English Prose Tracts, With Prefaces, Critical and Biographical (2 volumes; London: From the private press of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose (second edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University press, c1913), ed. by John Dover Wilson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Early English Prose Romances, With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions (second edition, 3 volumes; London: Nattali and Bond, 1858), ed. by William John Thoms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Prose Romances: Reynard the Fox; Friar Bacon; Robert the Devil; Guy of Warwick; Virgilius; History of Hamlet; Friar Rush (London et al.: G. Routledge and sons, 1889), ed. by Henry Morley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sir Thomas Browne and His "Religio Medici": An Appreciation, by Alexander Whyte, contrib. by Thomas Browne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Sir Thomas Browne and His "Religio Medici": An Appreciation, by Alexander Whyte, contrib. by Thomas Browne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Medieval English Political Writings, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at metseditions.org)

• Early English Homilies From the Twelfth Century MS. Vesp. D. XIV (EETS original series #152; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1917), ed. by Rubie D.-N. Warner, contrib. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sawles Warde (in Middle English, with a parallel modern English translation), ed. by Emily Rebekah Huber and Elizabeth Ann Robertson (HTML at metseditions.org)
• Twelfth Century Homilies in MS. Bodley 343 ("Part I", texts and translations, only part published; EETS original series #137; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co.; et al., 1909), ed. by A. O. Belfour (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (aka "Sermon of the Wolf"), by Archbishop of York Wulfstan
  • in Old English with glossary; frame-dependent HTML at Virginia
  • in modern English; HTML at ttu.edu
• Aelfric's Lives of Saints: Being a Set of Sermons on Saints' Days Formerly Observed by the English Church (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner and Co., 1881), by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Yale Studies in English (partial serial archives)
• At the Sign of the Hobby Horse (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910), by Elizabeth Bisland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century (1891), ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Essays in Literature and History (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• Et Cetera: A Collector's Scrap-Book (Chicago: P. Covici, 1924), ed. by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heart Throbs, in Prose and Verse, Dear to the American People (2 volumes; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1905-1911), ed. by Joe Mitchell Chapple
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Oxford Treasury of English Literature (3 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1906-1908), ed. by Grace E. Hadow and W. H. Hadow
  • Volume I (Old English to Jacobean): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Growth of the Drama): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Jacobean to Victorian): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; some volumes US access only
• The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America, ed. by George Pope Morris and Nathaniel Parker Willis (page images at MOA)
• This England: An Anthology From Her Writers (London et al.: Oxford University Press, 1915), ed. by Edward Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
• Restituta: or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived (4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1816), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
• World's Renowned Authors, and Their Grand Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose (Kansas City, MO: Topeka Book Co., 1902), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Land of My Fathers: A Welsh Gift Book (published on behalf of the National Fund for Welsh Troops; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915), ed. by William Lewis Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Saga Library: Done into English Out of the Icelandic (6 volumes; London: B. Quaritch, 1891-1905), ed. by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson
  • 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
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
• Eighteenth Century Literature (New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1929), ed. by Richard Foster Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: Being a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection; With Several Pieces Never Before Published (new edition, 6 volumes; London: J. Debrett, 1786), ed. by John Almon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on Various Subjects, by the Author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1772), by Catherine Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Foundling Hospital for Wit (6 volumes originally published 1743-1749), ed. by Charles Hanbury-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
• Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians, Hopkins, Pater and Wilde (Brno: Masaryk University, 2006), by Michael Matthew Kaylor (PDF with commentary at mmkaylor.com)
• The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose (London: Emily Faithfull, 1861), ed. by Adelaide Anne Procter (multiple formats at archive.org)

• New Paths: Verse, Prose, Pictures, 1917-1918, ed. by Cyril W. Beaumont and Michael Sadleir, illust. by Anne Estelle Rice (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Second Problems Book: Prizes and Proximes from the Westminster Gazette, 1908-1909 (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1909), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith, contrib. by Lytton Strachey, illust. by F. Carruthers Gould
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Westminster Problems Book: Prose and Verse (London: Methuen and Co., c1908), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Idler, ed. by Robert Barr, Jerome K. Jerome, Arthur Lawrence, and Sidney Herbert Sime (full serial archives)

• An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)

• Paintings From Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Richard D. Altick (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Lisa Lowe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.