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• Fanny Hill, by John Cleland (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• L'Oeuvre de John Cleland: Mémoires de Fanny Hill, Femme De Plaisir, Avec des Documents Sur La Vie à Londres au XVIIIe Siècle (in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des curieux, 1910), by John Cleland, contrib. by Guillaume Apollinaire, illust. by William Hogarth (page images at Gallica)
• Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure ("Fanny Hill") (based on the "Bibliophiles" edition published by C. Carrington, with a few plates missing, 1894 or 1902), by John Cleland, illust. by Martin van Maele (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition From the Original Text (London, 1749) (Paris: I. Lisieux, n. d.), by John Cleland (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
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Moll Flanders (translated into French), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Marcel Schwob (Gutenberg text)

• East of Eden (c1952), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Thais, by Anatole France, trans. by Robert B. Douglas (Gutenberg text)

• Aphrodite (Ancient Manners) (New York: Three Sirens Press, 1932), by Pierre Louÿs, trans. by Willis L. Parker, illust. by Frank J. Buttera (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Ancient Manners (Paris: Privately printed for subscribers only, n.d.), by Pierre Louÿs, illust. by Édouard Zier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Aphrodite: Moeurs Antiques (68th edition, in French; Paris: Soc. du Mercure de France, 1896), by Pierre Louÿs (Gutenberg text)

• The Sins of the Cities of the Plain: or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism (2 volumes in 1; London: Privately printed, 1881) (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• Caliphate (c2008), by Tom Kratman (multiple formats at Baen Ebooks)

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• Madeleine: An Autobiography (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1919), by Madeleine, contrib. by Ben B. Lindsey (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Mrs. Warren's Profession, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Paris Lions and London Tigers, by Harriette Wilson (HTML and PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Paris Lions and London Tigers, by Harriette Wilson (HTML and PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Against Neaera, by Apollodorus, contrib. by Demosthenes (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Joel Best (PDF at Ohio State)

• Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Marilynn Wood Hill (HTML at UC Press)

• Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (second edition; Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2003), by Hollis Clayson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Claire Solomon (PDF at Ohio State)
• Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Amanda Anderson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• 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

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google

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