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• The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• La secchia rapita : poema eroicomico (Appresso Lorenzo Prault e Pietro Durand, 1766), by Alessandro Tassoni, J.-B. Simonet, Antoine Jean Duclos, Jean Jacques Pasquier, Hubert François Gravelot, Jacques Le Roy, Pierre-Etienne-Germain Durand, Louis-François Prault, P. Perrault, and Lodovico Antonio Muratori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les liaisons dangereuses, volume 2 (of 2): or, Letters collected in a private society and published for the instruction of others, by Choderlos de Laclos, trans. by Ernest Christopher Dowson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les liaisons dangereuses, volume 1 (of 2): or, Letters collected in a private society and published for the instruction of others, by Choderlos de Laclos, trans. by Ernest Christopher Dowson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les liaisons dangereuses: Lettres recueillies dans une Société et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres (in French), by Choderlos de Laclos (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dangerous Connections, v. 1, 2, 3, 4: A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society., by Choderlos de Laclos, trans. by Thomas Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paxtoniade. A poem. / By Christopher Gymnast, Esqr; ; With the prolegomena and exercitations of Scriblerus. ([Philadelphia] : Printed [by Anthony Armbruster], in the year, 1764), by Christopher Gymnast and Scriblerus (HTML at Evans TCP)

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

• The heroic ballads of Russia (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.;, 1921), by Leonard A. Magnus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Popular epics of the middle ages of the Norse-German and Carlovingian cycles (Macmillan and Co., 1865), by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The octopus; a story of California (Doubleday, Page & co., 1901), by Frank Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zu den Kunstformen des mittelalterlichen Epos: Hartmanns "Iwein", das Nibelungenlied, Boccaccios "Filostrato" und Chaucers "Troylus and Cryseyde." (W. Braumüller, 1899), by Rudolf Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The world's heritage of epical, heroic and romantic literature (The Gresham Publishing Company, 1918), by Donald Alexander Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La reine Sibylle (Berger-Levrault, 1927), by Maurice Mutterer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traité du poëme épique. (A. Pralard, 1693), by René Le Bossu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gita (Ek tēs typographias G. Chartophylakos, 1848), by Geōrgios Kozakēs Typaldos and Demetrius Galanos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Cid : Nach spanischen Romanzen bezungen (F.A. Brockhaus, 1868), by approximately 1043-1099 Cid, Julian Schmidt, and Johann Gottfried Herder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epos; zibór arcydzieł poezji epickiej wszystkich czasów i narodów w streszczeniach i wycia̧gach. (Nakł. ksiȩg. F. Westa, 1909), by Antoni Lange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman in epic and romance (1915), by Alta Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zeno; oder, Die legende von den heiligen drei königen; Ancelmus, vom leiden Christi (J. Kühtmann, 1876), by August Lübben, Saint Anselm, August Lübben, and Germany) Landesbibliothek Oldenburg (Lower Saxony (page images at HathiTrust)
• Donne--spiriti--poeti (Successori le Monnier, 1895), by Maria Savi Lopez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jean-Christophe, Volume 4: Le Buisson Ardent, La Nouvelle Journée (in French), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe Volume 3: Antoinette, Dans la maison, Les Amies (in French), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe, Volume 2: La Révolte, La Foire sur la Place (in French), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe Volume 1: L'Aube, Le Matin, L'Adolescent (in French), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe X: Uusi työpäivä (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe IX: Palava pensas (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe VIII: Ystävättäriä (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe Pariisissa III: VII. Saman katon alla (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe Pariisissa II: VI. Antoinette (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe Pariisissa I: V. Markkinatori (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe IV: Kapinoitsija (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe III: Nuorukainen (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe II: Aamu (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean-Christophe I: Sarastus (in Finnish), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean, by Victor Hugo, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic, by Victor Hugo, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius, by Victor Hugo, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Misérables, v. 2/5: Cosette, by Victor Hugo, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Misérables, v. 1/5: Fantine, by Victor Hugo, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kurjat II: Cosette (in Finnish), by Victor Hugo, trans. by Vihtori Lehtonen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kurjat I: Fantine (in Finnish), by Victor Hugo, trans. by Vihtori Lehtonen (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Ellendigen (Deel 5 van 5) (in Dutch), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Ellendigen (Deel 4 van 5) (in Dutch), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Ellendigen (Deel 3 van 5) (in Dutch), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Ellendigen (Deel 2 van 5) (in Dutch), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Ellendigen (Deel 1 van 5) (in Dutch), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean (in French), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les misérables Tome IV: L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis (in French), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les misérables Tome III: Marius (in French), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les misérables Tome II: Cosette (in French), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les misérables Tome I: Fantine (in French), by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg ebook)

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