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• Butcher Bird (San Francisco: Night Shade Books, c2007), by Richard Kadrey (HTML at nightshadebooks.com)
• Rosehead (c2014), by Ksenia Anske (multiple formats with commentary at kseniaanske.com)
• The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light and Darkness: or, The Reign of Kings Alpha and Abadon (Philadelphia : J. Nicholas, 1867), by Lorenzo D. Blackson
  • HTML and page images at Indiana
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• That Hideous Strength (c1945), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Perelandra (c1943), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Gösta Berling's Saga (2 volumes; New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, et al., 1918), by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Lillie Tudeer and Velma Swanston Howard
  • Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1915), by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Pauline Bancroft Flach (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Out of the Silent Planet (c1938), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

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

• Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Berel Lang (PDF at Brandeis)
• Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues: The Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Kenneth Dorter (HTML at UC Press)
• The Dark Face of Reality: A Study of Emergent Awareness, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Fallen Star, or, The History of a False Religion; Also, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Lord Brougham, ed. by Peter Eckler (Gutenberg text)
• God and the Challenge of Evil: A Critical Examination of Some Serious Objections to the Good and Omnipotent God, by John L. Yardan (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Meaning of Good: A Dialogue (third edition, 1900), by G. Lowes Dickinson (Gutenberg text)
• The Nature of Goodness, by George Herbert Palmer (Gutenberg text)
• Two of Me: The Struggle with Sin, by David R. Wilkerson (HTML at tcspulpitseries.org)
• The Upas: A Vision of the Past, Present, and Future (London: C. Watts, 1877), by R. H. Dyas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, by Paul Carus (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Life's Beautiful Battle: or, The Human Soul Before Pain (Westfield, NJ: The Lloyd Group, c1910), by J. Wm. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Problem of Pain (c1940), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor: The Former Consisting of Ten Doubts Concerning Providence, and a Solution of Those Doubts; and the Latter Containing a Development of the Nature of Evil (London: Printed for the translator and sold by W. Pickering, 1833), by Proclus, trans. by Thomas Taylor, contrib. by Victor Cousin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life: Being Several Feigned Stories, Comical, Tragical, Tragi-Comical, Poetical, Romanicical, Philosophical, Historical, and Moral (second edition; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1671), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Comus, A Mask, by John Milton (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Milton's Comus (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by John Milton, ed. by William Bell (Gutenberg text)

• Sancti Aureli Augustini Contra Academicos Libri Tres; De Beata Vita Liber Unus; De Ordine Libri Duo (in Latin; Vienna and Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky A. G., 1922), by Saint Augustine of Hippo, ed. by Pius Knöll
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Deficient Cause of Moral Evil According to Thomas Aquinas (1996), by Edward Cook (multiple formats at Google)

• The Silver Keys: A Tale (London and Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, ca. 1872), by A. L. O. E., illust. by S. Miller (at ufdc.ufl.edu page images at Florida)

• Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics, by C. S. Lewis (Gutenberg text)

• An End to Evil (Reishis Goyim Amalek), by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, ed. by Uri Kaploun, trans. by Sholom B. Wineberg (HTML at sie.org)

• Theodicy: A Class Manual in the Philosophy Of Deity (St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book Co., 1939), by Paul J. Glenn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• If Only I Understood Why, by Pinchas Winston (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Divine Purpose Explained: or, All Things Decreed, Yet Evil Not Caused, Nor Moral Freedom Impaired, and the Glory of God, the End of All (Philadelphia: J. M. Wilson, 1860), by George Morton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Problem of Pain (c1940), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• A Beginner (London and New York: Macmillan, 1899), by Rhoda Broughton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mathias Sandorf (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1889), by Jules Verne
  • Part 1 (The Conspirators of Trieste): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2 (The Captives of Antekirtta): multiple formats at archive.org
• The House by the River (New York: Knopf, 1921), by A. P. Herbert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Charlotte Temple, by Mrs. Rowson (Gutenberg text)
• Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Ewer, 1824), by Mrs. Rowson (multiple formats at Google)
• John Burnet of Barns: A Romance (Toronto: Copp, Clark Co., 1899), by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• An Outcast of the Islands, by Joseph Conrad (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (New York: National Book Co., c1890), by Marie Corelli (page images at Google)

• The Winter of Our Discontent (c1961), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men (London: J. Lane, 1928), by Max Beerbohm (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Basket of Flowers (London: J. F. Shaw and Co., n.d.), by Christoph von Schmid, illust. by Watson Charlton and W. E. Evans (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cloud Dream of the Nine, by Kim Man-Jung, trans. by James Scarth Gale (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)
• Fatherless Fanny, or a Young Lady's First Entrance into Life: Being the Memoirs of a Little Mendicant and her Benefactors (author attribution uncertain (may or may not be Reeve); fourth edition; Manchester, UK: J. Gleave, 1822), contrib. by Clara Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatherless Fanny: or, Memoirs of a Little Mendicant and Her Benefactors (author attribution uncertain (may or may not be Reeve); London: J. Emans, n.d.), contrib. by Clara Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• First Tales for Children (Bath: Binns and Goodwin; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1845), by Christoph von Schmid, trans. by F. Johnston (multiple formats at Google)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (20-chapter version), by Oscar Wilde
  • HTML at FireBlade
  • Gutenberg text
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (13-chapter version, 1890), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Coelebs in Search of a Wife (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1859), by Hannah More (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Factory Girl (originally published 1814; with extensive added notes), by Sarah Savage, ed. by Duncan Faherty and Ed White (PDF with commentary at common-place.org)
• Five Hundred Dollars: or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, by John Bunyan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little by Little: or, The Cruise of the Flyaway (Chicago: Union School Furnishing Co., ca. 1860), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Lord Dunmersey: His Recollections and Moral Reflections (New York: J. Delay, 1889), by Leander Pease Richardson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Man Who Was Good (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Son of the State (London: Methuen and Co., 1902), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text)
• The King of the Golden River, or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria (Chicago: A. Whitman and Co., c1927), by John Ruskin, illust. by Elizabeth M. Fisher (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin
  • illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Satan's Realm (Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Co., 1899), by Edgar C. Blum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weighed in the Balance (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1869), by Sarah Stuart Robbins (multiple formats at Google)
• Later Adventures of Wee MacGreegor (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by J. J. Bell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ranthorpe (London: Chapman and Hall, 1847), by George Henry Lewes (page images at HathiTrust)

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