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• Fantasy fiction, American
• Criticism and interpretation

• Coyote's Song: The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (c2000), by Richard D. Erlich (HTML at Wayback Machine)

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• Grantville Gazette V (included on a Baen CD image; c2009), ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• Worlds (included on a Baen CD image; c2009), by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• The Ant King and Other Stories (2008), by Benjamin Rosenbaum (multiple formats with commentary at Small Beer Press)
• Grantville Gazette IV (included on a Baen CD image; c2008), ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• Ring of Fire II (included on a Baen CD image; 2008), ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• Grantville Gazette III (included on a Baen CD image; c2007), ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Stranger Things Happen (c2001), by Kelly Link (multiple formats with commentary at Small Beer Press)
• The Imaginary Voyages: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaall; The Journal of Julius Rodman (Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe v1, reissued with minor revisions and corrections; New York: Gordian Press, 1994), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Burton R. Pollin (HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• The Dragon Done It (included on a Baen CD image; c2008), ed. by Eric Flint and Michael D. Resnick
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• Grantville Gazette II (included on a Baen CD image; c2006), ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Grantville Gazette (first collection; included on a Baen CD image; c2004), ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Bedlam's Edge (included on a Baen CD image), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• The Chrome Borne (includes Born to Run and Chrome Circle; on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Fiddler Fair, by Mercedes Lackey (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Ring of Fire, ed. by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• A Stable for Nightmares; or, Weird Tales (New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., 1896), contrib. by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles L. Young, and Fitz James O'Brien
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Werehunter, by Mercedes Lackey (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1924), by Vere H. Collins, contrib. by M. R. James, Daniel Defoe, Walter Scott, Frederick Marryat, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George Eliot, Mrs. Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, W. W. Jacobs, H. G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood, and Barry Pain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe: Containing The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the Man That Was Used Up (only issue of this intended serial edition; Philadelphia: W. H. Graham, 1843), by Edgar Allan Poe
  • HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Balefires (included on a Baen CD image), by David Drake
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 491 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 490 MB

• Washington Irving: An American Study, 1802-1832 (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by William L. Hedges (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Six Screenplays (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Robert Riskin, ed. by Patrick McGilligan (HTML at UC Press)
• How to Write Photoplays (Philadelphia: Royal Pub. Co., c1916), by Carl Charlton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Art of Sound Pictures (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1930), by Walter B. Pitkin and William Moulton Marston, contrib. by Jesse L. Lasky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Film: Seine Mittel, Seine Ziele (in German; Berlin: Schuster und Loeffler, 1921), by Urban Gad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago: Photoplaywrights' Ass'n of America, c1914), by Arthur Winfield Thomas, contrib. by B. P. Schulberg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints (English content only; 1921), ed. by F. Kingsbury and Godfrey E. Phillips (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Shah Latif and His Message, by Jī. Em. Sayyidu, trans. by Egnert Azariah (HTML at gmsyed.org)

• The Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Gary Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)

• De Codicibus Aeschineis (dissertation in Latin; Berlin: Actien-Gesellschaft, 1882), by Johannes Adam (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at Wayne State)

• The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Aimeric de Peguilhan, ed. by William P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens and Thackeray (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963), by Keith Hollingsworth, illust. by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, and William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)

• Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Wen Jin (PDF at Ohio STate)

• Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2015), ed. by Vanja Malloy (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2014), by Anne E. Boyd (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Anthony Dyer Hoefer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Walter S. Allward: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2021), by Philip Dombowsky, illust. by Walter Seymour Allward (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)

• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (in English and French; London: Open Humanities Press, 2017), by Érik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, and Adam Szymanski, contrib. by Erin Manning (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Wilfred E. Major (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Arnold's Poetic Landscapes (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alan Roper (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1973), by Edward Alexander
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1951), by Frederic E. Faverty (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• The Age of Eclecticism: Literature and Culture in Britain, 1815-1885 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Christine Bolus-Reichert (PDF at Ohio State)
• Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater (1969), by David J. DeLaura (HTML at Victorian Web)
• The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (1952), by E. D. H. Johnson (HTML at Victorian Web)

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