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• The Myth of the "Manuscript Found", or, The Absurdities of the "Spaulding Story" (Salt Lake City, UT: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883), by George Reynolds
  • HTML at solomonspalding.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Tracking the White Salamander: The Story of Mark Hofmann, Murder, and Forged Mormon Documents, by Jerald Tanner (HTML with commentary at utlm.org)

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• 2000 Changes in the Book of Mormon: Containing the Way the Book is Claimed to Have Been Translated; The Amendments Which Have Been Made in the Book; What an Inspired Translation Should Have Been, and the Reasons Given by the Church for Making the Many Grammatical Changes; Showing That the Claims Are Consistent and Untrue (1898), by Lamoni Call
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Address to All Believers in Christ (1887), by David Whitmer (HTML at utlm.org)
• The Golden Bible: or, The Book of Mormon: Is It From God?, by M. T. Lamb (page images at Google; US access only)
• New Light on Mormonism (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1885), by Ellen E. Dickinson (HTML at solomonspalding.com)
• Who Wrote the Book of Mormon?, by Robert Patterson (HTML with commentary at solomonspalding.com)
• The Spaulding Story Concerning the Origin of the Book of Mormon, Duly Examined, and Exposed to the Righteous Contempt of a Candid Public (1843 and 1866 editions), by John E. Page (HTML at solomonspalding.com)
• The Origin of the Spaulding Story; With a Short Biography of Dr. P. Hulbert, The Originator of the Same, and Some Testimony Adduced, Showing it to be a Sheer Fabrication, So Far as Its Connection with the Book of Mormon is Concerned (Philadelphia: Brown, Bicking and Guilpert, 1840), by Benjamin Winchester (HTML at solomonspalding.com)
• Plain Facts, Shewing the Origin of the Spaulding Story, Concerning the Manuscript Found, and Its Being Transformed into the Book of Mormon, With a Short Biography of Dr. P. Hulbert, The Author of the Said Story (Bedford: C. B. Merry, 1841), by Benjamin Winchester (HTML at solomonspalding.com)

• American Anthropology Disproving The Book of Mormon (Cleveland: Utah Gospel Mission, 1916), by Charles A. Shook
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Delusions: An Analysis of the Book of Mormon, With an Examination of Its Internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its Pretences to Divine Authority (Boston: B. H. Greene, 1832), by Alexander Campbell, contrib. by Joshua V. Himes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology (c1993), ed. by Brent Lee Metcalfe (HTML at Signature Books)
• Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon (c1986), by Dan Vogel (HTML at Signature Books)
• American Anthropology Disproving The Book of Mormon (Cleveland: Utah Gospel Mission, 1916), by Charles A. Shook
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Delusions: An Analysis of the Book of Mormon, With an Examination of Its Internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its Pretences to Divine Authority (Boston: B. H. Greene, 1832), by Alexander Campbell, contrib. by Joshua V. Himes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Found at Last! "Positive Proof" that Mormonism is a Fraud and the Book of Mormon a Fable (1902), by James Ervin Mahaffey (HTML at solomonspalding.com)
• Mormon Fanaticism Exposed: A Compendium of the Book of Mormon, or Joseph Smith's Golden Bible (Boston: Printed for the author, 1841), by Tyler Parsons, contrib. by Freeman Nickerson (HTML with commentary at solomonspalding.com)

• Mormonism Exposed, Internally and Externally (with selected other anti-Mormon pamphlets and articles from the 1830s and 1840s; this book published 1838), by Origen Bacheler (HTML with commentary at solomonspalding.com)
• American Anthropology Disproving The Book of Mormon (Cleveland: Utah Gospel Mission, 1916), by Charles A. Shook
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Joseph Smith's Response to Skepticism (c1992), by Robert N. Hullinger (HTML at Signature Books)

• The Story of the Book of Mormon (fourth edition; Chicago; Press of Hillison and Etten Co., c1888), by George Reynolds (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Bad Ideas About Writing (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute, c2017), ed. by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Peggy Kamuf (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), ed. by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• A Vindication of the Press (1718) (Augustan Reprint Society publication #29; Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Clinton Williams (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Writing Success (New York: The Business bourse, 1933), ed. by J. George Frederick, contrib. by A. A. Brill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Mary Austin, Floyd Dell, and Thomas H. Uzzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Writer's Book: A Compendium of Information Upon Matters Pertaining to the Trade of Authorship (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, c1922), by James Knapp Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach, by Daniel Chandler (Word with commentary in the UK)
• The Art of Short Story Writing (Cincinnati: Publishers Syndicate, 1910), by George Randolph Chester
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Art of Story Writing: Facts and Information About Literary Work of Practical Value of Both Amateur and Professional Writers (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Nathaniel C. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Author's Craft, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Author's Year Book and Guide for 1904: Including Some 600 Names and Addresses of Publishers and Publications to Whom Manuscripts May be Sold (1904), ed. by W. E. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Life: Dizain des Demiurges (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Craftsmanship of Writing (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Frederic Taber Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• If You Don't Write Fiction (New York: R. M. McBride Co., 1920), by Charles Phelps Cushing (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-Known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Pub. for the Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), ed. by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)
• Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• My First Book (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), contrib. by Walter Besant, William Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Williams Buchanan, and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes (Gutenberg text)
• The Principles of Success in Literature (London et al.: W. Scott Pub. Co., ca. 1898), by George Henry Lewes, ed. by T. Sharper Knowlson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)

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