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• As I Lay Dying (originally published 1930), by William Faulkner (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• In the "Stranger People's" Country (New York: Harper and Bros., 1891), by Mary Noailles Murfree (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)

• Romano-British Cemeteries at Cirencester (Cirencester, UK: Cirencester Excavation Committee, Corinium Museum, 1982), by Alan McWhirr, Linda Viner, and Calvin Wells (PDF at Cotswold Archaeology)

• Shakespeare's Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them, Considered in Relation to Their Possible Bearing on His Portraiture, by C. M. Ingleby (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Religio Medici, A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), by Thomas Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici and Other Essays (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902), by Thomas Browne, ed. by D. Lloyd Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religio Medici and Other Writings of Sir Thomas Browne (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1912), by Thomas Browne, contrib. by C. H. Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Phoenician Mortuary Practice in the Iron Age I - III (ca. 1200 - ca. 300 BCE) Levantine "Homeland" (University of Michigan dissertation; 2013), by Helen M. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Phoenician Mortuary Practice in the Iron Age I - III (ca. 1200 - ca. 300 BCE) Levantine "Homeland" (University of Michigan dissertation; 2013), by Helen M. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Danger of Premature Internment, Proved from Many Remarkable Instances of People Who Have Recovered After Being Laid Out for Dead, and of Others Entombed Alive, for Want of Being Properly Examined Prior to Interment (London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by Joseph Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Premature Burial and How it May Be Prevented: With Special Reference to Trance, Catalepsy, and Other Forms of Suspended Animation (second edition; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1905), by William Tebb and Edward Perry Vollum, ed. by Walter R. Hadwen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pioneers at Peace: The Story of St John's Cemetery, Gordon (Sydney, NSW: Spurwood Press, c1994), by Jill Lyons (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Middle Bronze Age IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report (published as v. 62 of Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research; c2007), ed. by Yosef Garfinkel and Susan Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Visit to the Catacombs, or First Christian Cemeteries of Rome, and a Midnight Visit to Mount Vesuvius (London: Robinson, 1849), by Selina Bunbury (multiple formats at Google)
• Relazione Generale Degli Scavi e Scoperte Fatte Lungo la Via Latina, Redatta Dallo Stesso Intraprendente e Scopritore Lorenzo Fortunati dall'Ottobre 1857 all'Ottobre 1858; Cui fa Seguito l'Atlante Composto di 30 e più Tavole Grandi incise in Rame (in Italian; Rome: Tip. Tiberina, 1859), by Lorenzo Fortunati, contrib. by Raffaele Garrucci (multiple formats at Google)

• The Graveyard Book (read by the author in its entirety; 2008), by Neil Gaiman (videos at Youtube)

• An Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cave Hill Cemetery, Near Louisville, July 25, 1848 (Louisville, KU: Printed at the Courier Job-Room, 1848), by Edward P. Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Blanche M. G. Linden (PDF at Ohio State)

• Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Blanche M. G. Linden (PDF at Ohio State)

• Our Pastors in Calvary: Biographical Sketches of Parish Priests of St. Louis, 1854-1924 (St. Louis: Blackwell Wielandy, c1924), by Mary Constance Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Montauk Cemetery at Easthampton, Long Island (New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1920), by Foster H. Saville (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln (multiple editions)
• Año Lincoln, 1959 (in Spanish; published in Mexico, ca. 1959), by United States Information Service, contrib. by Abraham Lincoln (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Report of Commissioner for Marking Confederate Graves (Washington: GPO, 1912), by James H. Berry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Tombs and Catacombs of the Appian Way (History of Cremation): A Lecture Delivered in Rome, January 1891, Before a Select Audience of English and American Visitors (Rome: Società Laziale, 1892), by Olinto L. Spadoni
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Die Gottgeweihten Jungfrauen in den Ersten Jahrhunderten der Kirche (in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder, 1892), by Josef Wilpert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of Consecration of a Church or Chappel, and of the Place of Christian Burial (1675), by Lancelot Andrewes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Man Into Superman, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)

• Destruction and Human Remains: Disposal and Concealment in Genocide and Mass Violence (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014), ed. by Élisabeth Gessat-Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014), ed. by Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Gessat-Anstett (PDF with commenary at oapen.org)

• Cremation and Urn Burial: or, The Cemeteries of the Future (1889), by W. Robinson (HTML with commentary at victorianlondon.org)

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • 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
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (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)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

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