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• 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

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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Bibliographie de la France (partial serial archives)

• Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)

• Library and Bibliographic Activities in the Caribbean (8th Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials working paper #10; 1963), by Enid M. Baa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• ABC for Book Collectors (8th edition, 2004), by John Carter and Nicolas Barker (PDF at ilab.org)

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report (original 1998 report, plus amended version of 2009), by IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (HTML and PDF at ifla.org)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (Washington: Library of Congress, 1988), by David L. Vander Meulen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• Studies in Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Magyar Könyvszemle (in Hungarian) (full serial archives)
• The National Library of Wales Journal (partial serial archives)
• The Library (partial serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Library Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• The New Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• The Private Library (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Bookman (London, 1891-1934) (partial serial archives)
• Books Abroad (partial serial archives)
• The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)
• American Notes and Queries (New Haven, 1962-1986) (partial serial archives)
• The Annual Library Index, ed. by William Isaac Fletcher and Helen E. Haines (full serial archives)
• The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)
• The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America (full serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas (full serial archives)
• Book Review Digest (partial serial archives)
• The Library Association Record (partial serial archives)
• Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen (in German) (partial serial archives)
• The Book Buyer (partial serial archives)
• Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (full serial archives)
• The Dolphin (American Catholic review, 1901-1905) (full serial archives)

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