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• Venus in Furs, by Leopold Sacher-Masoch, trans. by Fernanda Savage (Gutenberg text)
• La Femme et le Pantin: Roman Espagnol (in French; 1898), by Pierre Louÿs (Gutenberg text)

• The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Carolyn J. Dean
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

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

• Letters and Papers by the Late Theodosia A. Viscountess Powerscourt (London: Hatchard and Son, 1838), by Theodosia A. Powerscourt, ed. by Robert Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The School of Calvary; or, Sharing His Suffering, by John Henry Jowett (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Odd (London: Religious Tract Society, 1919), by Amy Le Feuvre (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Odd One (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1897), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Mary A. Lathbury (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Girl Next Door (New York: The Century Co., c1917), by Augusta Huiell Seaman, illust. by C. M. Relyea
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Catskill Fairies (New York: Harper and Bros., 1876), by Virginia W. Johnson, illust. by Alfred Fredericks
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Florida
• The Cuckoo Clock (London: Macmillan and Co., 1893), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Cuckoo Clock (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cuckoo Clock (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1914), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Maria Louise Kirk (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Meat Out of the Eater: or, Meditations Concerning the Necessity, End, and Usefulness of Afflictions Unto Gods Children, All Tending to Prepare Them For, and Comfort Them Under the Crosse (Cambridge, MA: Printed by S. Green and M. Johnson for J. Usher, 1670), by Michael Wigglesworth
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • photocopy: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• All of Us: Beset by Birth, Decay, and Death: Twelve Dhamma Talks On Practice Given on Parappuduwa Nuns Island, by Ayya Khema (HTML at Access to Insight)

• How Could a Loving God...? Powerful Answers on Suffering (Petersburg, KY: Answers in Genesis, 2006), by Ken Ham (HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• The Brook Dried Up: Why Do Christians Suffer?, by Joe Crews (HTML at amazingfacts.org)
• The Pain That Heals: The Place of Suffering in the Growth of the Person, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Whisper of His Grace: A Fresh Look at Suffering Through the Eyes of Job and Jesus, by David L. McKenna (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Problem of Pain (c1940), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Ad Martyras (from a 1900 SPCK edition), by Tertullian, trans. by T. Herbert Bindley (HTML at tertullian.org)
• Ad Martyras, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• Seasonable Counsel: or, Advice to Sufferers, by John Bunyan (PDF at chapellibrary.org)

• Ad Martyras (from a 1900 SPCK edition), by Tertullian, trans. by T. Herbert Bindley (HTML at tertullian.org)
• Ad Martyras, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• A Token for Mourners, With a Selection of Scripture Promises, Relative To the Troubles of Life (Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers, ca. 1835) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Martyrdom: Arise and Bear Witness, by Ali Shariati, trans. by Ali Asghar Ghassemy (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Four Californian Lectures (1989), by Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Our Faith and Strength, by Naftali Hoffner (HTML at Ohr Somayach)

• Expository Studies in Job: Behind Suffering, by Ray C. Stedman (HTML at raystedman.org)

• The Crook in the Lot, by Thomas Boston (HTML at iclnet.org)

• Thy Will Be Done: Sickness, Faith, and the God Who Heals (c2011), by Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Blumhardt (PDF at plough.com)
• Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (with language modernized by the editor; London and New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951), by Thomas More, ed. by Monica Stevens (Gutenberg text)
• Comfort for Christians, by Arthur Walkington Pink (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing, by E. H. Chapin (Gutenberg text)
• The Early Dead, or Transplanted Flowers: A Collection of Thoughts, Poetical and Scriptural, on the Death of Children (Worcester, MA: H. J. Howland, 1857), ed. by William C. Whitcomb (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)
• The Ministry of Comfort, by J. R. Miller (HTML at jr-miller.com)
• The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1917), by Mary Webb (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Voices From the Silent Land: or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; London: Low and Co., 1853), ed. by Martha Noyes Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voices From the Silent Land: or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; London: Low and Co., 1858), ed. by Martha Noyes Williams (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• In God's Waiting Room: Learning Through Suffering, by Lehman Strauss (HTML at bible.org)

• Cardanus Comforte: Translated Into Englishe and Published by Commaundement of the Right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford (London: T. Marsh, 1573), by Girolamo Cardano, trans. by Thomas Bedingfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of Mortalitie of Man; The Rules of a Christian Lyfe Made by Picus Erle of Mirandula: Bothe Translated Into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyghte (London: T. Bertheleti, 1534), by Saint Cyprian and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, trans. by Thomas Elyot (at name.umdl.umich.edu)
• Ad Martyras (from a 1900 SPCK edition), by Tertullian, trans. by T. Herbert Bindley (HTML at tertullian.org)
• Ad Martyras, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• Consequences (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by E. M. Delafield (Gutenberg text)
• Gladiator (New York: Knopf, 1930), by Philip Wylie
  • Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature, Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Walter J. Slatoff
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Josefine Mutzenbacher: oder, Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne von ihr Selbst Erzählt (initially published anonymously, later attributed to Salten; in German; from a reprint of a work originally published 1906), by Felix Salten (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Nell in Bridewell (Lenchen im Zuchthause): Description of the System of Corporal Punishment (Flagellation) in the Female Prisons of South Germany Up to the Year 1848 (Paris: Society of British Bibliophiles, 1900), by W. Reinhard, trans. by W. C. Costello and A. R. Allinson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Flagellation and the Flagellants: A History of the Rod in All Countries, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (published under "Rev. Wm. M. Cooper" pseudonym; London: J. C. Hotten, ca. 1870), by James Glass Bertram (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Flagellation Among Different Nations (New York: Medical Pub. Co., 1920), contrib. by Jean Louis de Lolme and Jacques Boileau
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memorials of Human Superstition: Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau (second edition; London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1784), by Jean Louis de Lolme, contrib. by Jacques Boileau
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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