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• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Emily S. Apter
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open
• Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Roy Jay Nelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Bethany Wiggin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Joan E. DeJean (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Bethany Wiggin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Enemy Within: Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Gilbert D. Chaitin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Kelly (PDF at PSU)
• Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Emily S. Apter
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open
• Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Roy Jay Nelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century) (2 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1917-1919), by George Saintsbury
  • Volume I (From the Beginning to 1800): Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume I (From the Beginning to 1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (From 1800 to 1900): Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume II (From 1800 to 1900): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Unhappy Few: A Psychological Study of the Novels of Stendhal (Indiana University Humanities Series #69; Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1972), by Gilbert D. Chaitin (page images at HathiTrust)

• This Africa: Novels by West Africans in English and French (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1965), by Judith Gleason (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Annabel L. Kim (PDF at Ohio State)
• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Susan Sniader Lanser (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories (Paris: Charles Carrington, 1899), ed. by Antoine de La Sale, trans. by Robert B. Douglas, illust. by Léon Lebèque (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Great Modern French Stories: A Chronological Anthology (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1917), ed. by Willard Huntington Wright
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Eight Strokes of the Clock, by Maurice Leblanc (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Friend of Youth: Translated From the French of M. Berquin (2 volumes; Newburyport: Printed by J. Mycall for the proprietor of the Boston Book-Store, ca. 1800), by M. Berquin
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The White Cat, and Other Old French Fairy Tales (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Madame d'Aulnoy, ed. by Rachel Field, illust. by E. MacKinstry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy (new edition, with additional illustrations; London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1898), by Madame d'Aulnoy, trans. by Anne Macdonell and Miss Lee, contrib. by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, illust. by DeWitt Clinton Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy (from an 1892 compilation, with additional d'Aulnoy tales from Lang collections), by Madame d'Aulnoy, ed. by Heidi Anne Heiner, trans. by Anne Macdonell and Miss Lee, contrib. by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (HTML with commentary at surlalunefairytales.com)
• Old French Fairy Tales (Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, c1920), by Sophie Ségur, illust. by Virginia Frances Sterrett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Little Old Man of Batignolles, and Other Stories (London: Vizetelly and Co., 1886), by Emile Gaboriau
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Truth About the Case: The Experiences of M.F. Goron, Ex-Chief of The Paris Detective Police (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1907), by Marie-François Goron, ed. by Albert Keyzer, illust. by Arthur Garfield Dove (page images at HathiTrust)

• Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel, by François Rabelais, trans. by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, illust. by Gustave Doré (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Man-Wolf and Other Tales, by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (Gutenberg text)

• The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, by Queen Marguerite, trans. by Walter K. Kelly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life (from a 3-volume edition), by Guy de Maupassant, contrib. by Paul Bourget and Robert Arnot (HTML at Virginia)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, contrib. by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dēmētrios Vikelas, Maurice Maeterlinck, Camille Lemonnier, and Mór Jókai (Gutenberg text)

• Contes Fantastiques (in French; Paris: L. Hachette et cie, 1860), by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes Fantastiques: Le Diable Amoureux, par Cazotte; Le Démon Marié, par Machiavel; Merveilleuse Histoire de Pierre Schlémihl, par Adelbert de Chamisso (in French; Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, ca. 1867), contrib. by Jacques Cazotte, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Adelbert von Chamisso (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Short Stories: French, ed. by Francis J. Reynolds (Gutenberg text)

• The Contemporary Drama of France (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1920), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Action: Cahiers Individualistes de Philosophie et d'Art (in French; 1920-1922) (partial serial archives)
• Nord-Sud: Revue Littéraire (in French; 1917-1918) (full serial archives)
• Proverbe (French Dadaist and literary magazine; 1920-1921), ed. by Paul Éluard (full serial archives)
• Le Divan (in French) (partial serial archives)

• 391 (full serial archives)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• In Honor of "Brooklyn's Fighting Lady": Ada B. Jackson, Champion of People's Rights in Bedford-Stuyvesant for More than a Quarter of a Century (citizen's rally and campaign booklet; New York: Bedford-Stuyvesant Committee to Elect Ada B. Jackson, 1947), by Belle Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

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