Proverbs in literature
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Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Proverbs- Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British (new edition, with Ramsay's collection of Scottish proverbs added; London: T. and J. Allman, 1819), ed. by Thomas Fuller, contrib. by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Proverbial Lore in Nebraska (1933), by Emma Louise Snapp (PDF at unl.edu)
- Signs, Omens, and Portents in Nebraska Folklore (1933), by Margaret Cannell (PDF at unl.edu)
- A Dictionary of International Slurs (Ethnophaulisms); With a Supplementary Essay on Aspects of Ethnic Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Sci-Art Publishers, c1944), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)
- One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick
- Dumpy Proverbs (Dumpy Books for Children #24; London: Grant Richards, 1903), by Honor C. Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Proverbs are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Wolfgang Mieder (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Our Hypocritical New National Motto "In God We Trust": A Study of the Congressional Substitution for "E Pluribus Unum" and its Theological Implications (New York: Exposition Press, 1963), by Abbott Boone (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903), ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt, contrib. by Alice Meynell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Nachlese zu den Devisen für Deutschlands Gelehrte, Künstler etc. (in German; 1773), by Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Proverbs are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Wolfgang Mieder (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Old Stories and Sayings of Great Britain and Ireland (London: C. W. Daniel, ca. 1911), ed. by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs (second edition), by Teodor Flonta (HTML at deproverbio.com)
- Centuriae XXI Proverbiorum, Ex Optimis Auctoribus Graecis Collectae (in Latin and Greek; Leiden: J. and D. Elsevier, 1653), by Michael Apostolius, contrib. by Petrus Pantinus and of Cyprus Gregory II
- The Wit and Wisdom of the Haytians (New York: Scribner and Armstrong, 1877), by John Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hawaiian Proverbs and Riddles (in English and Hawaiian; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #77; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by Henry P. Judd (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old Stories and Sayings of Great Britain and Ireland (London: C. W. Daniel, ca. 1911), ed. by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Second Frutes (facsimile reproduction of a 1591 edition, with new introduction; Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1953), by John Florio, contrib. by R. C. Simonini (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ancient Jewish Proverbs (London: John Murray, 1911), by A. Cohen (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Mongo Proverbs and Fables (Bongandanga: Congo Balolo Mission Press, 1921), by E. A. Ruskin
- English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs (second edition), by Teodor Flonta (HTML at deproverbio.com)
- A Collection of Scotch Proverbs, by Pappity Stampoy, contrib. by Archer Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Sechuana Proverbs, With Literal Translations and Their European Equivalents; Diane Tsa Secoana le Maele a Sekgooa a a Dumalanang naco (in English and Tswana; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1916), by Sol. T. Plaatje
- Sechuana Proverbs, With Literal Translations and Their European Equivalents; Diane Tsa Secoana le Maele a Sekgooa a a Dumalanang naco (in English and Tswana; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1916), by Sol. T. Plaatje
- 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 (PDF and Epub with commentary at opensuny.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)
- 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)
- Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
- The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
- 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)
- 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)
- Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amy E. Earhart (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
- A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)
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