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Seduction

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• Seduction in literature

• The Country Wife, by William Wycherley (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Country-Wife: A Comedy Acted at the Theatre Royal (London: Printed for Thomas Dring, 1675), by William Wycherley (HTML in Canada)
• The Country-Wife: A Comedy Acted at the Theatre Royal (London: Printed for Thomas Dring, 1688), by William Wycherley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Power of Sympathy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by William Hill Brown, ed. by William S. Kable (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Power of Sympathy: Reproduced From the First Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (2 volumes; New York: Pub. for the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1937), by William Hill Brown, contrib. by Milton Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Conflict (copyright edition, 2 volumes; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1903), by M. E. Braddon
  • both volumes bound together: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Charlotte Temple, by Mrs. Rowson (Gutenberg text)
• Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Ewer, 1824), by Mrs. Rowson (multiple formats at Google)
• East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood (Gutenberg text)

• Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Lettres Recueillies dans une Société, et Publiées Pour l'Instruction de Quelques Autres (2 volumes, in French; Brussels: J. Rozez, 1869), by Choderlos de Laclos (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

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

• The Prostitution of Sexuality (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Kathleen Barry (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan (Oakland: University of California Press, c2017), by Torunn Wimpelmann (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2012), ed. by Elizabeth A. Sheehy (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2012), ed. by Elizabeth A. Sheehy (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2012), ed. by Elizabeth A. Sheehy (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Rainbow Gliding Hawk and the Last Stand of the Patriarch (c2007), by Doug Lambeth (PDF at lulu.com)
• The Pitiful Wife (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Storm Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Possession (London: Macmillan and Co., 1923), by Mazo De la Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
• Therese Raquin, by Émile Zola, ed. by Edward Vizetelly (Gutenberg text)
• The Trespasser, by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• Orchids to Murder (c1945), by Hulbert Footner, contrib. by Christopher Morley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Devil (translation ca. 1926), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude (HTML at cyberspacei.com)
• Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Constance Garnett
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Anna Karenina: A Novel (illustrated edition; Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., ca. 1919), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Constance Garnett, illust. by Helen Mason Grose
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Burning Bright (c1950), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Doctor Cupid: A Novel (new edition; London: R. Bentley and Sons, 1891), by Rhoda Broughton (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Dom Casmurro (in Portuguese; Rio de Janeiro and Paris: H. Garnier, 1899), by Machado de Assis (Gutenberg text)
• Fidelity: A Novel (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1915), by Susan Glaspell
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Irene Iddesleigh (Belfast: Printed by W. and G. Baird, 1897), by Amanda McKittrick Ros (Gutenberg text)
• Elective Affinities: A Novel, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Painted Veil (c1925), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Golden Bowl (1904), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Bowl (New York edition, 1909), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford (Gutenberg text)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (HTML at classicreader.com)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, ed. by Eleanor Marx Aveling (Gutenberg text)
• Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province (2 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1857), by Gustave Flaubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)

• Ernestus Berchtold: or, the Modern Oedipus (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819), by John William Polidori (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (with annotations by the editor), by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, ed. by Brian Boyd (frame-dependent hypertext in New Zealand)

• Auto Defensa Para Mujeres (in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Ediciones Degeneradas, ca. 2005) (page images at qzap.org)

• The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (New York: The author, 1861), by Louisa Picquet and Hiram Mattison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Fanaticism: Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. (New York: the author, 1835), by G. Vale (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Cry of Sodom Enquired Into, Upon Occasion of the Arraignment and Condemnation of Benjamin Goad, for His Prodigious Villany, by Samuel Danforth, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• Confronting Child Sexual Abuse: Knowledge to Action (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Anne Nurse (multiple formats with commentary at Lever Press)

• On Exhortation to Chastity, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

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