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• The Narrow Corner (c1932), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Dialstone Lane, by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Dialstone Lane (London: G. Newnes, 1904), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Master of Craft (c1900), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• A Master of Craft (New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, c1900), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• 'Twixt Land and Sea, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men Against the Sea (c1933), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (text and illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Persuasion, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • HTML at Sonoma
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• A Son of the Sun, by Jack London
  • HTML at Sonoma
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Timar's Two Worlds (New York: M. J. Ivers and Co., 1894), by Mór Jókai, trans. by Agnes Hegan Kennard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• Dick Sand: or, A Captain at Fifteen (New York: A. L. Burt, ca.1878), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg HTML)
• Dick Sands, the Boy Captain, by Jules Verne, trans. by Ellen Elizabeth Frewer (Gutenberg HTML)
• The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story of H. M. S. Pinafore (with some sheet music; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1908), by W. S. Gilbert, contrib. by Arthur Sullivan, illust. by Alice B. Woodward (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Story of Nelson, and Other Stories, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
• Little Bobtail: or, The Wreck of the Penobscot (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Home is the Sailor (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, 1955), by Herbert Hartley and Clint Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Log of an Ancient Mariner: Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1878), by Edgar Wakeman, ed. by Minnie Wakeman-Curtis (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• The Log of an Ancient Mariner: Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1878), by Edgar Wakeman, ed. by Minnie Wakeman-Curtis (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)

• Stories of Ships and the Sea (Little Blue Book #1169; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1922), by Jack London, ed. by E. Haldeman-Julius (Gutenberg text)

• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • HTML at Sonoma
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), by Herman Melville, ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and page images

• The New Centurion: A Tale Of Automatic War (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895), by James Eastwick
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1950), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: St. Botolph Society, 1923), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (London et al.: Constable and Co., 1922), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (New York: United States Book Company, c1892), by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text)

• The Misplaced Battleship (as published in Astounding, April 1960), by Harry Harrison, illust. by John Schoenherr (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Ronald Morton: or, The Fire-Ships, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1993 Lippincott omnibus edition; slightly abridged), by Jules Verne, trans. by Lewis Mercier
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Butcher (PDF with commentary at ibiblio.org)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne, trans. by Frederick Paul Walter
  • illustrated HTML in Israel
  • Gutenberg text

• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• The Cruise of the "Cachalot": Round the World After Sperm Whales, by Frank Thomas Bullen (Gutenberg text)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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 (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook (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)

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