Suicide in literature
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Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (1988), by Barbara T. Gates (HTML at Victorian Web)
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Filed under: Suicide- Diary of a Suicide (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1913), by Wallace E. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le Suicide: Étude de Sociologie (in French; Paris; F. Alcan, 1897), by Émile Durkheim (Gutenberg text)
- Suicide and Its Antidotes: A Series of Anecdotes and Actual Narratives, With Suggestions on Mental Distress (London: J. Robins and Co., 1824), by Solomon Piggott
- Report on the Death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr. (1997; with footnotes and appendix), by Kenneth Starr, contrib. by Patrick J. Knowlton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fbicover-up.com)
- Biathanatos: A Modern-Spelling Edition, With Introduction and Commentary (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1982), by John Donne, ed. by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Battin (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
- Biathanatos: A Declaration of That Paradoxe Or Thesis, That Selfe-Homicide Is Not So Naturally Sinne, That It May Never Be Otherwise, Wherein the Nature and the Extent of All Those Lawes, Which Seeme To Be Violated by This Act, Are Diligently Surveyed (London: Printed by J. Dawson, ca. 1644), by John Donne, ed. by John Donne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Biathanatos: Reproduced from the First Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1930), by John Donne, contrib. by J. William Hebel (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Philosophical Dissertation Upon Death, Composed for the Consolation of the Unhappy (title page has "Phliosophical"; London: W. Mears, 1732), by Alberto Radicati
- Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul, by David Hume (HTML at anselm.edu)
- The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-Monnayeurs) (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1927), by André Gide, trans. by Dorothy Bussy
- 2 B R 0 2 B (as published in Worlds of If Science Fiction, 1962), by Kurt Vonnegut (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Messiah (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1954), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle
- The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (1988), by Barbara T. Gates (HTML at Victorian Web)
- Of Life and Death: Report of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, by Canada Parliament Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (HTML in Canada)
- Die Freigabe der Vernichtung Lebensunwerten Lebens: Ihr Mass und Ihre Form (second edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1922), by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche (Gutenberg text)
- Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative (2002), ed. by Sara K. Goldsmith, Terry C. Pellmar, Arthur M. Kleinman, and William E. Bunney (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Biathanatos: Reproduced from the First Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1930), by John Donne, contrib. by J. William Hebel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Biathanatos: A Declaration of That Paradoxe Or Thesis, That Selfe-Homicide Is Not So Naturally Sinne, That It May Never Be Otherwise, Wherein the Nature and the Extent of All Those Lawes, Which Seeme To Be Violated by This Act, Are Diligently Surveyed (London: Printed by J. Dawson, ca. 1644), by John Donne, ed. by John Donne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Eine Studie über den Selbstmord, von Jüdischem Standpunkte (extract from the journal 'Hamechaker', in German; Budapest: S. Grünhut, 1878), by Aron Roth
- The Guilt, Folly, and Sources of Suicide, by Samuel Miller (HTML at Still Waters)
- The Guilt, Folly, and Sources of Suicide, by Samuel Miller (HTML at Still Waters)
- Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative (2002), ed. by Sara K. Goldsmith, Terry C. Pellmar, Arthur M. Kleinman, and William E. Bunney (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Of Life and Death: Report of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, by Canada Parliament Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (HTML in Canada)
- When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context, by New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (HTML at state.ny.us)
- The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy: Report of a Staff Investigative Group to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs Staff Investigative Group (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Death of Representative Leo J. Ryan, People's Temple, and Jonestown: Understanding a Tragedy (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- The Performance of the Department of State and the American Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana, in the People's Temple Case (ca. 1979), by John H. Crimmins and Stanley S. Carpenter
- The Sky Lighter (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c2003), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)
- Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India: Being a Collection of Opinions, For and Against (Mumbai: Printed at the "Voice of India" Printing Press, 1887), by Behramji M. Malabari
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
- 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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