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• The Sky and the Forest (c1948), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

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• Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Daniel Carter Beard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Living Forest (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925), by Arthur Heming (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Young Voyageurs, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Boy Scouts in the Wilderness (New York: The Century Co., c1919), by Samuel Scoville, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silver Lake, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Young Exiles: or, The Wild Tribes of the North, A Tale of Adventure (some distorted pages; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1870), by Anne Bowman, illust. by Harrison Weir (page images at HathiTrust)

• Labrador Days: Tales of the Sea Toilers (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Light Freights (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1901), by W. W. Jacobs
  • Gutenberg multiple formats
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Short Cruises (New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, 1907), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Captains All (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Captains All (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Many Cargoes (second edition, 1894), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• More Cargoes (1897), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
• More Cargoes (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1898), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Island (c1962), by Aldous Huxley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Lost Horizon (c1933), by James Hilton (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• There Will Be Dragons (2003), by John Ringo (multiple formats at Baen Free Library)
• The Fifth-Dimension Tube (as published in Astounding Stories, January 1933), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Torch (originally published 1920; this edition 1951), by Jack Bechdolt (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Land of Forgotten Men (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1923), by Edison Marshall, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inquirendo Island (New York: Twentieth Century Pub. Co., 1890), by Hudor Genone
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Masterman Ready, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
• The Wonderful Narrative of Miss Julia Dean, the Only Survivor of the Steamship City of Boston, Lost at Sea in 1870 (Philadelphia: Barclay and Co., c1882), by Julia Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bywyd ac Anturiaethau Rhyfeddol Robinson Crusoe: Yr Hwn A Fu Byw Wyth Mlynedd Ar Hugain Mewn Ynys Anghyfanedd, Wedi Ei Fwrw Yno Pan Dorodd Y Llong Arno. Hefyd, Ei Ail-ymweliad A'r Ynys Hono, A'i Deithiau Peryglus Mewn Amryw Barthau Ereill O'r Byd (Robinson Crusue translated into Welsh; Caernarfon: H. Humphreys, n.d.), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collection de Cent-Cinquante Gravures Représentant et Formant une Suite Non-Interrompue des Voyages et Aventures Surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé (150 illustrations with French captions retelling the story of Robinson Crusoe; Vevey: Loertscher et fils, n.d.), by Daniel Defoe, illust. by F. A. L. Dumoulin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being The Second and Last Part of His Life, and of The Strange Surprizing Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of The Globe; Written by Himself. (third edition; London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1722), by Daniel Defoe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H. G. Wells
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Kauhun Saari (The Island of Dr. Moreau in Finnish; 1920), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Teppo Heino (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., ca. 1895), by Daniel Defoe, illust. by George Housman Thomas, W. J. Linton, and William Luson Thomas (page images at Florida)
• The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (based on an 1801 edition), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (London: W. Taylor, 1719; with added commentary), by Daniel Defoe (frame-dependent HTML at pierre-marteau.com)
• The Life And Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight And Twenty Years All Alone In an Un-inhabited Island on The Coast Of America, Near The Mouth of The Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore By Shipwreck, Wherein All The Men Perished But Himself. With an Account How He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates; Written by Himself (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1719), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rebilius Cruso: Robinson Crusoe, in Latin (text ("only the general idea") in Latin, commentary in English; London: Trübner and Co., 1884), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by F. W. Newman
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• Robinson Crusoe (Philadelphia: D. McKay Co., ca. 1920), by Daniel Defoe, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable, by Daniel Defoe and Lucy Aikin (Gutenberg text)
• Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children (1905), by Daniel Defoe and James Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serious Reflections During The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of The Angelick World (London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720), by Daniel Defoe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; With His Vision of the Angelic World (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1899), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by George Atherton Aitken, illust. by Jack B. Yeats (page images at Google)
• The Story of Robinson Crusoe (juvenile adapation; New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1889), by Daniel Defoe (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Orphan Island (London et al.: W. Collins Sons and Co., c1924), by Rose Macaulay (PDF at Toronto Public Library)
• The Fearsome Island (Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1896), by Albert Kinross (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Pirate; With the Author's Last Notes and Additions (Paris: Baudry's Foreign Library, 1832), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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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