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• Hermes Beckons: A Tale of Alchemy and Magic (c2006), by John Caris (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The King of the Conjurors (London: J. Blackwood and Co., n.d.), by James Skipp Borlase (multiple formats at Google)
• Beyond World's End (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

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• The Lives of the Conjurors (London: Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Exposé, by Harry Houdini
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Lives of the Necromancers: or, An account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power (London: Frederick J. Mason, 1834), by William Godwin (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorias e Confidencias do Popular Illusionista Faure Nicolay (in Portuguese; Rio De Janeiro: Typ. Villas-Bôas, 1901), by Nicoláu Faure Nicolay
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Famous Houdini: The Original Jail Breaker and Hand Cuff King (ca. 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Romance of Sorcery (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by Sax Rohmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini (revised edition, with movie stills; New York: Audubon Printers, 1922)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth: Being the Life and Adventures of the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry and Co., 1890), by Harry Kellar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Doctor Faustus (multiple versions), by Christopher Marlowe (HTML at Perseus)
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (based on the 1604 quarto, with some later amendments and footnotes), by Christopher Marlowe, ed. by Alexander Dyce (Gutenberg text)
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1616 quarto), by Christopher Marlowe, ed. by Alexander Dyce (Gutenberg text)
• The Tempest, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Tempest (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tempest (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Tempest (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (HTML at Shakespeare Navigators)
• The Tempest (1674 edition), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)

• Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Brian Rappert (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Frank Merriwell's Own Company: or, Barnstorming in the Middle West (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• M-U-M, by Society of American Magicians (partial serial archives)

• Houdini, the Man Who Walked Through Walls (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1959), by William Lindsay Gresham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini (revised edition, with movie stills; New York: Audubon Printers, 1922)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Famous Houdini: The Original Jail Breaker and Hand Cuff King (ca. 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Good Companions, by J. B. Priestley (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)

• No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Maid of Many Moods (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1902), by Virna Sheard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Actor-Manager (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Comedienne (c1920), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Edmund Obecny (Gutenberg text)
• Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Indiana
  • both volumes (but no illustrations): Gutenberg text

• The Half Sisters: A Tale (cheap edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1854), by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
• The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Mistress Nell Gwyn: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Caesar Cascabel (New York: Cassell, c1890), by Jules Verne, trans. by A. Estoclet, illust. by George Roux (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lost Girl (New York: T. Seltzer, 1921), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of a Midget (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Walter De la Mare
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Rujub, the Juggler, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)

• Lalla Rookh (based on the 1861 Longman's edition, with added illustrations and commentary from other editions), by Thomas Moore, contrib. by Agnes Repplier, illust. by John Tenniel (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

• The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1841), by Henry Cockton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Show Boat (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

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