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• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
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• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

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• Getting To Be Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Steinbrink (HTML at UC Press)
• My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1910), by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ordeal of Mark Twain (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Van Wyck Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Chapters From My Autobiography (as published in issues of the North American Review), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, by Archibald Henderson (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at marktwainproject.org)
• Mark Twain's Letters, Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine, by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Mark Twain as Critic (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sydney J. Krause (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Reverend Mark Twain: Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Joe B. Fulton (PDF files at Ohio State)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain Journal (partial serial archives)
• Mark Twain Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)
• Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Hartford: The American Pub. Co., 1898), by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Teacher's Guide (a Big Read guide; Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, ca. 2008), by Michael Palma (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Official and Tentative Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (partial serial archives)

• Sketching and Rendering in Pencil (New York: Pencil Points Press, 1922), by Arthur L. Guptill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Javed Malick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Practical Hints for Art Students (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Charles Augustus Lasar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952), by Marvin Mudrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bacteriology and Surgical Technique for Nurses (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1900), by Emily M. A. Stoney (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stephen Gilman (HTML at UC Press)

• Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer's Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Larry Sklute (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer's Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Judson Boyce Allen and Theresa Anne Moritz
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Descriptive Zoopraxography: or, The Science of Animal Locomotion Made Popular (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1893), by Eadweard Muybridge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dante's Commedia: Elements of Structure (originally published 1954; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Singleton (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1924), by Arthur Wellesley Secord (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Technique of the Mystery Story, by Carolyn Wells (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Audrey Jaffe (HTML at UC Press)

• Dickinson's Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), ed. by Paul Crumbley and Eleanor Elson Heginbotham (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Craftsmanship of the One-Act Play (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1923), by Percival Wilde (page images at HathiTrust)
• How's Your Second Act? (New York: P. Goodman Co., 1918), by Arthur Hopkins, contrib. by George Jean Nathan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship (1912), by William Archer (Gutenberg text)
• Playwriting: A Handbook for Would-Be Dramatic Authors, by A Dramatist (second edition; London: The Stage Office, n.d.), by Jerome K. Jerome (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Science of Playwriting (New York: Brentano's, c1925), by Moses L. Malevinsky, contrib. by Owen Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspere's Five-Act Structure: Shakspere's Early Plays on the Background of Renaissance Theories of Five-Act Structure From 1470 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1947), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Javed Malick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
• The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1921), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray, contrib. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)

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