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• The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gilded Age (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Harper and Bros., c1915), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Rahanvaihtajat (The Moneychangers translated into Finnish; 1915), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg text)

• The Samurai Strategy (c1988), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)

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

• Speculate This! (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013), by Uncertain Commons (illustrated HTML with commentary at pressbooks.com)
• New Methods for Profit in the Stock Market; With a Critical Analysis of Established Systems (second and revised edition; Boston: Metcalf Press, c1951), by Garfield Albee Drew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Granville's New Key to Stock Market Profits (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Joseph E. Granville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Art of Speculation (Boston et al.: Barron's, 1927), by Philip L. Carret (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Benner's Prophecies of Future Ups and Downs in Prices: What Years to Make Money on Pig-Iron, Hogs, Corn, and Provisions (Cincinnati: The author, 1876), by Samuel Benner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fourteen Methods of Operating in the Stock Market (third edition; New York: Magazine of Wall Street, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• International, Commercial and Financial Gambling in "Options and Futures" (Marchés à Terme): The Economic Ruin of the World (London: P. S. King and Son, 1906), by Charles William Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychology of the Stock Market (New York: Ticker Pub. Co., c1912), by G. C. Selden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychology of the Stock Market (third edition; New York: Magazine of Wall Street, 1921), by G. C. Selden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Tape Reading (published under "Rollo Tape" pseudonym; New York: Ticker Pub. Co., c1910), by Richard D. Wyckoff
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Théorie de la Spéculation (in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900), by Louis Bachelier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 45 Years in Wall Street: A Review of the 1937 Panic and 1942 Panic, 1946 Bull Market, With New Time Rules and Percentage Rules with Charts for Determining the Trend on Stocks (Miami: W. D. Gann, c1949), by William D. Gann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Free Trade and Protection Under the International Bear Operator (London: P. S. King and Son, 1904), by Charles William Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds: Being Some Methods Evolved and Adopted During My Thirty-Three Years Experience in Wall Street (first edition; New York: Magazine of Wall Street, c1922), by Richard D. Wyckoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Edwin Lefevre (page images at HathiTrust)
• It's No Gamble: The Economic and Social Benefits of Stock Markets, by Lewis D. Johnson and Bohumir Pazderka (HTML at Fraser Institute)

• The Hit: A Novel (New York: Vanguard Press, c1957), by Julian Mayfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Long Odds (1869), by Marcus Clarke (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Monsieur Beaucaire (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1900), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by C. D. Williams (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Shadowed by Three (Chicago: Donnelley, Gassette and Loyd, 1882), by Lawrence L. Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Garden of Eden (book version, first published 1963), by Max Brand (Gutenberg text)
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (in German; Berlin: Ullstein, c1920), by Norbert Jacques (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by C. J. Hogarth (Gutenberg text)
• The Garden of Eden (original illustrated magazine serial from Argosy All-Story, 1922), by Max Brand (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Narrow Corner (c1932), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Sin That Was His (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., c1917), by Frank L. Packard
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Show Boat (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Old Curiosity Shop (based on an undated Chapman and Hall edition), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne, George Cattermole, Samuel Williams, and Daniel Maclise (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• So Big (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1924), by Edna Ferber (page images at HathiTrust)
• So Big (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ticket No. "9672", by Jules Verne, trans. by Laura E. Kendall (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

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