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• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (based on the first editions), by Laurence Sterne, ed. by Günter Jürgensmeier (PDF at gasl.org)
• Fanny's First Novel, by Frank Frankfort Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, contrib. by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg ebook)

• Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel, by Sarah Green (PDF at Chawton House Library)

• A Likely Story, by Damon Knight, illust. by Robert Engle (Gutenberg ebook)
• This World is Ours!, by Emil Petaja (Gutenberg ebook)
• Once Upon a Monbeast..., by Charles E. Fritch (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ultimate Salient, by Nelson S. Bond, illust. by Frank R. Paul (Gutenberg ebook)
• Transfer Point, by Anthony Boucher, illust. by Paul Pierre (Gutenberg ebook)

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

• 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)
• Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing: Advice, opinions and a statement of their own working methods by more than one hundred authors, ed. by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman (Gutenberg ebook)

• Life of Frederick Marryat, by David Hannay, ed. by Eric S. Robertson, contrib. by John Parker Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Life of Frederick Marryat, by David Hannay, ed. by Eric S. Robertson, contrib. by John Parker Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Dare to be Creative! A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1984), by Madeleine L'Engle, contrib. by John Young Cole and Sybille A. Jagusch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juvenile Story Writing (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., c1922), by Mabel Louise Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sir Walter Scott (c1932), by John Buchan (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper, Edited by His Grandson, James Fenimore Cooper (some printed issues as 2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922), by James Fenimore Cooper, ed. by James Fenimore Cooper, contrib. by Susan Fenimore Cooper
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • single-volume printing: PDF at gasl.org

• How to Write a Short Story: An Exposition of the Technique of Short Fiction (New York: Editor Pub. Co., 1906), by Leslie W. Quirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short Stories in The Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the Technique and Practical Composition of Short Stories, Including an Adaptation of the Principles of the Stage Plot to Short Story Writing (New York: Oxford University Press, 1914), by Robert Wilson Neal
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• The Contemporary Short Story: A Practical Manual (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1916), by Harry Torsey Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers, by Henry Childs Merwin (Gutenberg ebook)

• New Grub Street, by George Gissing
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
• Dom Casmurro (in Portuguese; Rio de Janeiro and Paris: H. Garnier, 1899), by Machado de Assis (Gutenberg text)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (21-chapter version), by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (24-chapter version, 1910), by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Bartleby)
• Writing Class, by Robert Sheckley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Theft, by Bill Venable, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Double Identity, by Henry Farrell, illust. by Robert Fuqua (Gutenberg ebook)
• What Do You Read?, by Boyd Ellanby, illust. by Malcolm Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree, by Arlo Bates (Gutenberg ebook)
• Helena Brett's Career, by Desmond Coke (Gutenberg ebook)

• Those Barren Leaves (c1925), by Aldous Huxley (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The bard of Mary Redcliffe, (Philadelphia, Printed by Sherman and company, 1910), by Ernest Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)

• The unseen blushers, by Alfred Bester, illust. by Leo Morey (Gutenberg ebook)

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