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• South African fiction (English) -- 20th century

• Two Stories ("Three Jews" and "The Mark on the Wall"; Richmond, UK: Hogarth Press, 1917), by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf, illust. by Dora de Houghton Carrington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Windsor Magazine (1895-1910): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #32; 2004), by Catharine Vaughan-Pow (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Chambers's Journal, 1854-1910: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #17; 1989), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Pall Mall Magazine: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #9; 1983), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Cassell's Family Magazine (Cassell's Magazine): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #12; 1987), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Harmsworth Magazine (London Magazine): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #10; 1984), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Tyrus Miller (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Crossing the Shadow-Line: The Literature of Estrangement (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Martin Bock (PDF at Ohio State)
• Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c2018), by Nasser Mufti (multiple formats at escholarship.org)
• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Molly Hite (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Novel in Motion: An Approach to Modern Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1983), by Richard Pearce (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (London: L. and V. Woolf, at the Hogarth Press, 1924), by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text)
• The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford, by Paul B. Armstrong
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE

• Thomas Hardy's Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy's Imagination (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Suzanne Keen (PDF at Ohio State)

• Decentering Rushdie: Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Pranav Jani (PDF at Ohio State)

• Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Pallavi Rastogi (PDF at Ohio State)

• Indexes to Fiction in The Idler (1892-1911) (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #23; 1994), ed. by William B. Thesing and Becky Lewis (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• The Signature (all 3 issues published; 1915), ed. by D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, and John Middleton Murry (full serial archives)

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• The English Novel Before the Nineteenth Century: Excerpts from Representative Types (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1915), ed. by Annette Brown Hopkins and Helen Sard Hughes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Novels of Swift, Bage, and Cumberland: viz., Gulliver's Travels, by Swift; Mount Henneth, Barham Downs, James Wallace, by Bage; Henry, by Cumberland; With Prefatory Notices, &c. (London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.; Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne and Co., 1824), ed. by Walter Scott, contrib. by Jonathan Swift, Richard Cumberland, and Robert Bage (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stories By English Authors
  • volume 1 (London): Gutenberg text
  • volume 2 (England): Gutenberg text
  • volume 3 (Ireland): Gutenberg text
  • volume 4 (Italy): Gutenberg text
  • volume 5 (France): Gutenberg text
  • volume 6 (Africa): Gutenberg text
  • volume 7 (The Orient): Gutenberg text
  • volume 8 (Scotland): Gutenberg text
  • volume 9 (Germany, etc.): Gutenberg text
  • volume 10 (The Sea): Gutenberg text

• Catalogue of Books in English, French and German Belonging to the Class of Prose Fiction (Cincinnati: Board of Managers of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 1876), by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
  • 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)

• Eight Novels Employed by English Dramatic Poets of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: Originally Published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and Reprinted From a Copy of That Date in the Bodleian Library (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1846), by Barnabe Rich, ed. by John Payne Collier
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Narrative Innovation and Incoherence: Ideology in Defoe, Goldsmith, Austen, Eliot, and Hemingway (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Michael M. Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aspects of the Novel (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1927), by E. M. Forster (multiple formats at Google)
• The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance (London: Constable and Co., 1921), by Edith Birkhead
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The English Novel, by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch of its History From the Earliest Times to the Appearance of Waverley (popular (5th) edition; London: J. Murray, 1907), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
  • multiple formats at archhive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Dorothy Scarborough
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chapman's Magazine of Fiction (partial serial archives)
• The Literary Lounger (full serial archives)

• More Tales by Polish Authors (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916), ed. by Else C. M. Benecke and Marie Busch, contrib. by Adam Szymański, Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, Stefan Żeromski, Wacław Sieroszewski, and Bolesław Prus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Selected Polish Tales, ed. by Else C. M. Benecke and Marie Busch, contrib. by Bolesław Prus, Adam Szymański, Stefan Żeromski, Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, and Zofia Nałkowska (Gutenberg text)

• The Man From Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1919), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)

• A Gallery of Children (Philadelphia: D. McKay Co., ca. 1925), by A. A. Milne, illust. by H. Willebeek le Mair (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Child's Coloured Picture Reading Book (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Enchanter: or, Wonderful Story Teller, In Which is Contained a Series of Adventures, Curious, Surprising, and Uncommon, Calculated to Amuse, Instruct, and Improve Younger Minds (London: Printed for W. Lane at the Minerva Press, 1795) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Under the Sunset (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882), by Bram Stoker, illust. by W. Fitzgerald and W. V. Cockburn
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • PDF and text with commentary at bramstoker.org
• Very Short Stories and Verses for Children (London: Walter Scott, 1886), by Mrs. Clifford, illust. by Edith Campbell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Beauty and the Beast and Other Stories (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)
• Moral Tales, in Prose and Verse, Selected and Revised From the Best Authors (London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1814), ed. by Benjamin Tabart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Pretty Gift Book (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1867) (page images at Florida)
• The Tell-Tale: An Original Collection of Moral and Amusing Stories (London: Harris and Son, 1823), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious, by Hannah More and Others (new revised edition, 8 volumes; New York: American Tract Society, n.d.), contrib. by Hannah More
  • Volumes 1-5 and 7-8: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 6: page images at HathiTrust
• Yule Logs (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), ed. by G. A. Henty
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

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