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• American fiction -- Mormon authors
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• American fiction -- Themes, motives
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• Adventure stories, American
• Alternative histories (Fiction), American
• Autobiographical fiction, American
• Baseball stories, American
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• College stories, American
• Detective and mystery stories, American
• Didactic fiction, American
• Dime novels, American
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• Experimental fiction, American
• Fantasy fiction, American
• Feminist fiction, American
• Ghost stories, American
• Golf stories, American
• Historical fiction, American
• Horror tales, American
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• Noir fiction, American
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• Romance fiction, American
• Science fiction, American
• Sea stories, American
• Short stories, American
• Speculative fiction, American
• Spy stories, American
• War stories, American
• Western stories

• American Fiction (Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction v10; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)

• Pall Mall Magazine: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #9; 1983), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels, Given to the New York Public Library by Dr. Frank P. O'Brien (reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1922), by New York Public Library
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• In Our Lovely Deseret: Mormon Fictions (c1998), ed. by Robert Raleigh (HTML at Signature Books)
• Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories (c1992), ed. by Eugene England (HTML at Signature Books)

• The Argosy (American fiction magazine, founded 1882) (partial serial archives)
• The Saturday Evening Post (partial serial archives)

• The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Sam Bluefarb (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1897)
  • page images at Drexel
  • frame-dependent page images at Harvard

• Love of Life, and Other Stories (New York and London: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Love of Life, and Other Stories (New York: Pub. for the Review of Reviews Co. by Macmillan; London: Macmillan, 1913), by Jack London, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Auringon Poika: Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney, by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text)
• A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Auringon Poika: Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jo's Boys, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)

• Baseball Joe Around the World: or, Pitching on a Grand Tour (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1918), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Baseball Joe at Yale: or, Pitching for the College Championship (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1913), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team: or, Bitter Struggles on the Diamond (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1924), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Baseball Joe, Home Run King: or, The Greatest Pitcher and Batter on Record (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1922), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Baseball Joe in the Big League: or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1915), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Baseball Joe in the Central League: or, Making Good as a Professional Pitcher (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1914), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Baseball Joe in the World Series: or, Pitching for the Championship (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1917), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars: or, The Rivals of Riverside (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1912), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Baseball Joe on the Giants: or, Making Good as a Ball Twirler in the Metropolis (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1916), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Baseball Joe on the School Nine: or, Pitching for the Blue Banner (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1912), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Baseball Joe Saving the League: or, Breaking Up a Great Conspiracy (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1923), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Batting to Win: A Story of College Baseball (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1911), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories, by Zane Grey
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Rival Pitchers: A Story of College Baseball (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1910), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Those Smith Boys on the Diamond: or, Nip and Tuck for Victory (Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue and Co., c1912), by Howard Roger Garis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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