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Heroes

Here are entered works about real people who are admired for their achievements, courage, or noble qualities. Works about fictional heroes who possess abilities beyond those of normal human beings are entered under Superheroes.

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• Persons

• Antiheroes
• Apotheosis
• Courage

• Heroes -- Arab countries
• Heroes -- Bibliography
• Heroes -- Biography
• Heroes -- China
• Heroes -- Comic books, strips, etc.
• Heroes -- Denmark
• Heroes -- England
• Heroes -- Fiction
• Heroes -- Genealogy
• Heroes -- Great Britain
• Heroes -- Greece
• Heroes -- Hungary
• Heroes -- Iran
• Heroes -- Ireland
• Heroes -- Japan
• Heroes -- Juvenile fiction
• Heroes -- Juvenile literature
• Heroes -- Juvenile poetry
• Heroes -- Mexico
• Heroes -- Mythology
• Heroes -- Norway
• Heroes -- Periodicals
• Heroes -- Philippines
• Heroes -- Poetry
• Heroes -- Portraits
• Heroes -- Religious aspects
• Heroes -- Scandinavia
• Heroes -- Southern States
• Heroes -- Soviet Union
• Heroes -- Turkey
• Heroes -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
• Heroes -- United States
• Heroes -- Wales
• Animal heroes
• Bogatyrs
• Explorers
• Heldensage
• Heroes in art
• Heroes in literature
• Martyrs
• Nine worthies
• Women heroes
• Chapman, George, 1559?-1634 -- Characters -- Heroes
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Characters -- Heroes
• Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Characters -- Heroes
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Heroes

• Heroism

• Heroes in Peace (William Penn lecture #6; Philadelphia: W. H. Jenkins, 1920), by John Haynes Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Hero in Man, by George William Russell, contrib. by Clifford Bax (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race, by M. I. Ebbutt (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, by Otto Rank, trans. by F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A song of heroes (W. Blackwood, 1890), by John Stuart Blackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history : six lectures: reported with emendations and additions (Wiley & Halsted, 1859), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history. (J. Wiley, 1859), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• American heroes, myth and reality. (Public Affairs Press, 1954), by Marshall William Fishwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carlyle's theory of the hero : its sources, development, history, and influence on Carlyle's work ; a study of nineteenth century idea (Duke University Press, 1928), by B. H. Lehman (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, Hero-worship, and the heroic in history. (Ginn, 1901), by Thomas Carlyle and Archibald MacMechan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sartor resartus. On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history. (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.;, 1916), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hero in history : a study in limitation and possibility. (Humanities Press, 1950), by Sidney Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hero in history, a study in limitation and possibility (The John Day company, 1943), by Sidney Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hero in history; a study in limitation and possibility. (Beacon Press, 1955), by Sidney Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of peace; a history of the Carnegie hero fund commission (Priv. print., The Carnegie hero fund commission, 1935), by Thomas Shaw Arbuthnot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der mythus von der geburt des helden. Versuch einer psychologischen mythendeutung (F. Deuticke, 1922), by Otto Rank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Greek hero cults and ideas of immortality; the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the year 1920 (The Clarendon Press, 1921), by Lewis Richard Farnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Griechische mythologie (Weidmann, 1894), by Ludwig Preller, Otto Kern, and Carl Robert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history : six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions (D. Appleton & Co., 1841), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Victoria cross (A. Constable & co., ltd., 1904), by Philip Aveling Wilkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le culte des héros et ses conditions sociales. (F. Alcan, 1919), by Stefan Czarnowski and Henri Hubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Reliquienkult im Altertum (A. Töpelmann (vormals J. Ricker), 1909), by Friedrich Pfister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vergeleken geschichten en daden, van verscheide zo oostersche als Indiesche grote helden en beroemde mannen, naar het voorbeeld van Plutarchus (S. van Esveldt, 1748), by Ludvig Holberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Griechische vorbilder. Versuch einer deutung des heroischen im schrifttume der Hellenen. (W. Kohlhammer, 1927), by Albrecht von Blumenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (G. G. Harrap & company, 1910), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der held im deutschen und russischen märchen. (E. Diederichs, 1912), by August von Löwis of Menar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heroen : Griechische Heldensagen für die Jugend. (R. Voigtländer, 1884), by Jakob Karl Andrä (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history (C. Scribner's sons, 1900), by Thomas Carlyle and H. D. Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history. (Oxford University Press, 1965), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moral heroism; or, The trials and triumphs of the great and good. (Houlston and Stoneman, 1846), by Clara Lucas Balfour (page images at HathiTrust)
• The myth of the birth of the hero; a psychological interpretation of mythology (The Journal of nervous and mental disease Pub. Co., 1914), by Otto Rank, Smith Ely Jelliffe, and F. Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1910), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world's heroes; a storehouse of heroic actions, golden deeds and stirring chronicles. (McLoughlin, 1900), by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Carlyle über Helden, Heldenverehrung und das Heldenthümliche in der Geschichte. (R. v. Decker, 1901), by Thomas Carlyle and J. Neuberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eiyūron (Tōadō, 1919), by Nichinan Fukumoto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Helteliv, en studie over heltedigtningens grundtraek. (Nordiske Forlag, 1903), by Vald. Vedel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mittelalterliche Kulturideale ... (B.G. Teubner, 1910), by Vald. Vedel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of six old testament hero-tales (s.n.], 1977), by Kathryn Carol McNair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (Dingwall-Rock, 1910), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sword from the rock : an investigation into the origins of epic literature and the development of the hero (Grove Press, 1954), by Gertrude Rachel Levy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manes : de døde og menneskelivet (Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1914), by Jacob Peter Jacobsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heroes of the last lustre. A poem ... (D. Dana, Jr., 1858), by John Flavel Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (J.B. Alden, 1887), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands (The Christian Herald, 1895), by Charlotte M. Yonge and Christian Herald (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history. (Chapman and Hall, 1840), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masarykův ideál moderního hrdiny (Les, 1927), by Emanuel Rádl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manes : de døode og menneskelivet. (Gyldendal, 1914), by Jacob Peter Jacobsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of bravery, being true stories in an ascending scale of courage (C. Scribner's sons, 1919), by Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charakterbilder aus der geschichte und sage, für einen propädeutischen geschichtsunterricht. (Brandstetter, 1888), by A. W. Grube (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy's book of heroes. (Frederick Warne), by Helena Peake (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treasury of heroes and heroines; a record of high endeavour and strange adventure, from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1920), by Clayton Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'héroïsme (Librairie Hachette, 1873), by Armand Renaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Götter und heroen, nebst einer Übersicht der Cultusstätten und Religionsgebräuche der Griechen; eine Vorschule der Kunstmythologie. (Seemann, 1869), by Otto Seemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the great and brave (Wardle, 1845), by M. Fraser Tytler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heldenleben, mittelalterliche kulturideale I (B.G. Teubner, 1910), by Vald. Vedel (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history. six lectures (John Wiley, 1849), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history (Frederick A. Stokes, 1893), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of legendary heroes (Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1907), by Eva March Tappan (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history : six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions (Wiley and Putnman, 1846), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Al giborim, avodat giborim u-midat ha-gevurah be-divre ha-yamim : shishah shiurim (Hotsa'at A.Y. Shtibl, 1919), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of heroism from the world's history. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, in the 1890s) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les mánes (E. Champion, 1924), by Jacob Peter Jacobsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Giborim, ʻavodat giborim (Hotsẚat Avraham Shṭibel, 1920), by Thomas Carlyle and Yeruḥam Fishel Lachower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben grosser Helden des gegenwärtigen Krieges (Bey Christoph Peter Francken, 1758), by Karl Friedrich Pauli and Christoph Peter Francken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ludvig Holbergs Helte-historier (Samfundet til den danske literaturs fremme, 1864), by Ludvig Holberg, Frederik Ludvig Liebenberg, and Copenhagen Samfundet til den danske literaturs fremme (page images at HathiTrust)
• The roll call of honour, a new book of golden deeds (T. Nelson and Sons, 1911), by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands (J.M. Dent & co.;, 1913), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Duty and glory (A. J. Holman & co., 1888), by R. S. Hartzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fighters young Americans want to know; heroes of our country's wars (D. Appleton and company, 1918), by Everett T. Tomlinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1893), by Thomas Carlyle, Archibald Gunn, and Corwin Knapp Linson (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (Macmillan Company, 1897), by Thomas Carlyle and Annie Russell Marble (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands (Macmillan and Co., 1874), by Charlotte M. Yonge, Janice Dohm, and Lorenz Frølich (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history : six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions (James Fraser, 1841), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hellenika. Griechenland im neuen das Alte. 1. Bd. ... (Nicolai, 1837), by P. W. Forchhammer (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history. (Wiley an Putnam, 1846), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heores and heroism in common life (T. Y. Crowell & co., 1907), by Nacy McGee Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history. (J. B. Alden, 1883), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes and hero-worship and the heroic in history. (Henry Altemus, 1894), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry of heroism (G.P. Putnam's Sons; [etc., 1913), by John Lang and Jean Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Carlyle's works. (Chapman and Hall, 1885), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hero in history : a study in limitation and possibility (Beacon Press, 1967), by Sidney Hook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pictura loquens; sive, Heroicarum tabularum Hadriani Schoonebeeck, enarratio et explicatio. (ex officina Hadriani Schoonebeek, 1695), by Ludolph Smids and Adriaan Schoonebeek (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907), by Thomas Carlyle and John Chester Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English hero tales told by Jeannette Marks ... (Harper & brothers, 1915), by Jeannette Augustus Marks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of saints and heroes (Longmans, Green, 1921), by Mrs. Lang and Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Welt-Eroberung durch Helden-Liebe (Schuster & Loeffler, 1911), by Frederik van Eeden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (Carlyle's house memorial trust, 1881), by Thomas Carlyle and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history. (J. Wiley, 1866), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le culte des héros et ses conditions sociales; saint Patrick, héros national de l'Irlande (F. Alcan, 1919), by Stefan Czarnowski and Henri Hubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sartor resartus. On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (J.M. Dent & co.;, 1908), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hero-worship. (Chapman and Hall, 1869), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history. (J. Wiley, 1861), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abbildungen zur Gallerie Heroischer Bildwerke der alten kunst. Erster band die bildwerke zum Thebeschen und Troischen heldenkreis. (C.A. Schwetschke, 1853), by Johannes Overbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauties of mythology (J.E. Tilton, 1865), by Thomas Bulfinch (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history, (Chapman and Hall, 1840), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hero-worship (C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Thomas Carlyle and H. D. Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Carnegie hero fund for Sweden : created by Andrew Carnegie. (Pub. for the Carnegie Foundation of Sweden by the American Swedish News Exchange, Inc., 1943), by Carnegiestiftelsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Los héroes: el culto de los héroes y lo heroico en la historia (Heinrich, 1907), by Thomas Carlyle and Pedro Umbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and heroic deeds of the great war. ([s.n.], 1915), by Donald A. Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden deeds of heroism : a popular book of bravery and devotion in the great war. ([s.n., 1918), by George Alfred Leask (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in poetry (Chapman & Hall, 1888), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero myths & legends of the British race (George Harrap & company, 1912), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history : six lectures (U. P. James, 1842), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hero worship. (H. Altemus, 1899), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hero as man of letters (G. Bell, 1897), by Thomas Carlyle and Mark Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes and hero-worship and the heroic in history (Estes and Lauriat, 1890), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hero-worship (C. Scribner's sons, 1901), by Thomas Carlyle and H. D. Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die deutschen heldinnen in den kriegsjahren, 1807-1815. (J. Koppen, 1912), by D. Noel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (J.B. Millar, 1885), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burdett's heroic recitations and readings (Excelsior publishing house, 1885), by James S. Burdett (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history : six lectures, reported, with emendations and additions (D. Appleton & Co., 1842), by Thomas Carlyle and Edwin Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (Chapman & Hall, 1897), by Thomas Carlyle and H. D. Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes : an address delivered November 4, 1898. (London, 1898), by Mandell Creighton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Representative men (H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1911), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carlyle on heroes, hero-worship, and the heoric in history (Ginn & Co., 1901), by Thomas Carlyle and Archibald MacMechan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on Goethe (Cassell, 1908), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heroenvögel in der griechischen mythologie mit einem anhange über Diomedes in Italien. (Druck von A. Edelmann, 1895), by Richard Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hero-worship. (Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of everyday life; a reader for the upper grades (Ginn and Co., 1911), by Fanny E. Coe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old world hero stories (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911), by Eva March Tappan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian types of heroism; a study of the heroic spirit under Christianity. (Universalist Pub. House, 1891), by John Coleman Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (John B. Alden, 1888), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hero-worship. (Ward, Lock & Co., 1900), by Thomas Carlyle and Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American book of golden deeds (American Book Company, 1907), by James Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of myth (Silver, Burdett and Co., 1902), by Lillian Louise Price and Charles B. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wandering heroes (Silver, Burdett & Co., 1902), by Lillian Louise Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (The Macmillan Company;, 1904), by Thomas Carlyle and Annie Russell Marble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus; the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. Heroes and hero-worship. (Estes and Lauriat, 1885), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of bravery, being true stories in an ascending scale of courage. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes in peace (W.H. Jenkins, 1920), by John Haynes Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Griechische mythologie (Weidmann, 1854), by Ludwig Preller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hero worship (Home Book Co., 1890), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English hero tales told by Jeannette Marks. (Harper & brothers, 1915), by Jeannette Augustus Marks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gods and heroes of Japan (Field Museum of Natural History, 1924), by Helen Cowen Gunsaulus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japan, as represented in Field Museum of Natural History (Field Museum of Natural History, 1924), by Helen Cowen Gunsaulus, Berthold Laufer, Frank W. Gunsaulus, and Field Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Anthropology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andeutungen über das Princip der Vermittelung im homerischen Götter- und Helden-Dualismus. (G. Basse, 1834), by Johann Andreas Christian Heinecke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (G. G. Harrap & company, 1920), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of bravery : being true stories in an ascending scale of courage (C. Scribner's Sons, 1918), by Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus and On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history. (Macmillan, 1920), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quaestiones genealogicae historicae in antiquitatem heroicam graecam. (Librar. academ. Elwertianae, 1832), by Johann Heinrich Christian Schubart (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero worship and the heroic in history (Oxford University Press, 1904), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heroes and hero worship (Henneberry Co., 1902), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden : Versuch einer psychologischen Mythendeutung (Deuticke, 1909), by Otto Rank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands (Dent, 1917), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history (Dodge Pub. Co., 1910), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus ; Heroes ; Past and present (Chapman and Hall, 1903), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (George G. Harrap & co., 1918), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sartor resartus. On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history. (J.M. Dent & sons, ltd., 1921), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes in friendship (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1925), by Basil Mathews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history (D. C. Heath, 1913), by Thomas Carlyle and Herbert Spencer Murch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ritter, Tod und Teufel : der heldische Gedanke (J.F. Lehmann, 1920), by Hans F. K. Günther (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of bravery : being true stories in an ascending scale of courage (C. Scribner's sons, 1927), by Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hero worship (H. Altemus, 1900), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history. (Oxford University Press, 1925), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Betrachtung über die heroischen Tugenden (Gedruckt, bei M.F. Bartich, 1770), by Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deeds of valor, from the annals of the United States Coast Guard. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boys' book of honor (Fleming H. Revell Company, 1931), by James E. West, Peter O. Lamb, and Boy Scouts of America (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sartor resartus. On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history. (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1926), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• National heroes of the Americas. (Pan American Union, 1945), by Pan American Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helden und heldenverehrung (Wilhelm Borngräber, 1912), by Thomas Carlyle and Adalbert Luntowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le domaine héroique des lettres françaises Xe-XIXe siècles. (A. Colin, 1903), by Pierre Henri Simon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of heroes: boys and men. A record of the past, and an inspiration for the future (Hutchinson, 1907), by Alfred H. Miles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of European history (Longmans, Green, 1909), by Louise Creighton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A psychological interpretation of mythology, by Otto Rank, trans. by Smith Ely Jelliffe and F. Robbins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Suomalaisia sankareita II: Historiallisia kertomuksia (in Finnish), by Santeri Ivalo and Kyösti Wilkuna (Gutenberg ebook)
• Suomalaisia sankareita I: Historiallisia kertomuksia (in Finnish), by Santeri Ivalo and Kyösti Wilkuna (Gutenberg ebook)
• Early English Hero Tales, by Jeannette Augustus Marks (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hero Tales from History, by Smith Burnham (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines: A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D., by Clayton Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race, by M. I. Ebbutt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg ebook)

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