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Literature

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Filed under: Fiction

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

Filed under: Fiction -- Authorship

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)

Filed under: Fiction -- Bibliography

Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
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)
Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Fiction -- Collections

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot
- HTML at Bartleby
- 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

Filed under: Fiction -- Dictionaries

An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

Filed under: Fiction -- History and criticism

Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by H. Porter Abbott (PDF at Ohio State)
Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF at parlormultimedia.com)
The Reader as Peeping Tom: Nonreciprocal Gazing in Narrative Fiction and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jeremy Hawthorn (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stephen Gilman (HTML at UC Press)
The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1916), by James Branch Cabell (Gutenberg text)
The Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other Literary Essays (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of its Criticism and a Guide for its Study, With an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages From 1700 to 1800 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), by Philip Babcock Gove (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Fiction -- Indexes

Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Fiction Section (second edition revised; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1931), by Phyllis Crawford, ed. by Corinne Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Fiction -- Periodicals

Blue Book Magazine (partial serial archives)
Golden Book Magazine (partial serial archives)
The Famous Story Magazine (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Fiction -- Psychological aspects

Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)

Filed under: Fiction -- Stories, plots, etc.

Masterpieces of the Masters of Fiction (New York: The Cosmopolitan Press, 1912), by William Dudley Foulke (multiple formats at Indiana)

Filed under: Fiction -- Technique

The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Paul Dawson (PDF at Ohio State)
Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Brian Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
Social Minds in the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Alan Palmer (PDF at Ohio State)
Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
How to Write Stories That Sell (Boston: The Writer, c1961), by Edward S. Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)
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)
The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Richard Walsh (PDF at Ohio State)
The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter M. Kendrick (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gerald Monsman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Randolph Runyon (PDF at Ohio State)
Fundamentals of Fiction Writing (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Ellen D. Finkelpearl (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)
In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by John A. Dussinger (PDF at Ohio State)
This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
- PDF at Ohio State
- PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
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)
Mrs. Radcliffe: Her Relation Towards Romanticism; With an Appendix on the Novels Falsely Ascribed to Her (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1926), by Alida Alberdina Sibbellina Wieten (page images at delpher.nl)

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