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Good Gestes: Stories of Beau Geste, His Brothers, and Certain of Their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion (c1929), by Percival Christopher Wren (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Beau Ideal (c1928), by Percival Christopher Wren (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
The Foreign Legion: Photoplay Title of The Red Mirage (illustrated with photographs from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1928), by I. A. R. Wylie (multiple formats at archive.org)
Beau Sabreur (1926), by Percival Christopher Wren (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
Beau Geste (1924), by Percival Christopher Wren (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
Stepsons of France (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1918), by Percival Christopher Wren (page images at HathiTrust)
Stepsons of France (cheaper edition; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925), by Percival Christopher Wren (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
Stories of the Foreign Legion (1940s compilation), by Percival Christopher Wren (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

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Filed under: France. Armée. Légion étrangère

The Legion of the Damned: The Adventures of Bennett J. Doty in the French Foreign Legion as Told by Himself (New York and London: The Century Co., 1928), by Bennett J. Doty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The French in Algiers: I. The Soldier of the Foreign Legion; II. The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kader (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Clemens Lamping and Ernest Alby, ed. by Lucie Duff Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
The French in Algiers: The Soldier of the Foreign Legion; and The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kader (new edition; London: J. Murray, 1855), by Clemens Lamping and Ernest Alby, ed. by Lucie Duff Gordon
- Gutenberg text
- multiple formats at archive.org
La Légion Étrangère de 1831 à 1887 (in French; Paris: Librairie Militaire Berger-Levrault et cie, 1888), by Paul Adolphe Grísot and Ernest Auguste Ferdinand Coulombon
Life in the Legion, From a Soldier's Point of View (London: Everett and Co., ca. 1911), by Frederic Martyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Life in the Legion, From a Soldier's Point of View (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1911), by Frederic Martyn (multiple formats at archive.org)
Memoirs of the Foreign Legion (c1924), by Maurice Magnus, contrib. by D. H. Lawrence (text at Gutenberg Australia)
Soldiers of the Legion: Trench-Etched by Legionnaire Bowe (Chicago: Press of Peterson Linotyping Co., Chicago, 1918), by John Bowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930), by Paul Ayres Rockwell (page images at HathiTrust)
In the Foreign Legion (London: Duckworth and Co., 1910), by Erwin Rosen (Gutenberg text)
Kelly of the Foreign Legion: Letters of Légionnaire Russell A. Kelly, To Which is Added An Historical Sketch of the Foreign Legion (New York: M. Kennerley, 1917), by Russell Anthony Kelly, ed. by James Edward Kelly (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
A Soldier of the Legion: An Englishman's Adventures Under the French Flag in Algeria and Tonquin (London: J. Murray, 1907), by George Manington, ed. by William B. Slater and Arthur J. Sarl (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Filed under: France. Armée. Légion Étrangére -- History

Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger, 1888-1916 (Scribner's, May 1917), by Alan Seeger (illustrated HTML at BYU)

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
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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)

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