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• Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1892), by Kirk Munroe (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Driver (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1922), by Garet Garrett (multiple formats at Google)
• Empire Builders (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1907), by Francis Lynde, illust. by Jay Hambidge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Erie Train Boy, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)
• A Fool for Love, by Francis Lynde (Gutenberg text)
• On the Iron at Big Cloud (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co, 1911), by Frank L. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rail-Road Forger and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1881), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Railroad Book: Bob and Betty's Summer on the Railroad (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1913), by E. Boyd Smith (page images with commentary at Brooklyn Public Library)
• The Railroad Children (London: J. and C. Mozley, 1855), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
• Ralph on the Engine: or, The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1909), by Allen Chapman (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Ralph on the Overland Express: or, The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1910), by Allen Chapman, illust. by Charles Nuttall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Romance in Transit (third edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1899), by Francis Lynde
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Scientific Sprague (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912), by Francis Lynde, illust. by E. Roscoe Shrader (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Wire Devils (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1917), by Frank L. Packard (Gutenberg text)
• The Silent Alarm (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1926), by Roy J. Snell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Bart Stirling's Road to Success: or, The Young Express Agent (New York: Cupples and Leon, 1908), by Allen Chapman, illust. by Charles Nuttall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Black Doctor, and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1925), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of Terror and Mystery, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)

• Railroad Man's Magazine (partial serial archives)

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

• 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)

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• 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)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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

• An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

• Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by H. Porter Abbott (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF at parlormultimedia.com)
• The Reader as Peeping Tom: Nonreciprocal Gazing in Narrative Fiction and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jeremy Hawthorn (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stephen Gilman (HTML at UC Press)
• The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1916), by James Branch Cabell (Gutenberg text)
• The Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other Literary Essays (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of its Criticism and a Guide for its Study, With an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages From 1700 to 1800 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), by Philip Babcock Gove (page images at HathiTrust)

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