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• 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)
• Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2017), by Tony McEnery and Helen Baker (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)
• 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)

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

• 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)

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

• La Dame aux Camélias: Drame en Cinq Actes (new edition, in French; Paris: M. Lévy Frères, 1872), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Fanny Hill, by John Cleland (multiple editions)
• 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)
• 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 Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe (multiple editions)
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)

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

• Camille (La Dame Aux Camelias), by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

• Making Do (New York: Macmillan; London: Collier-Macmillan, c1963), by Paul Goodman (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (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
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • 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
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)

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