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• Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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• Lady Layard's Journal, 1861-1912 (unedited transcript of the original manuscript), by Enid Layard (searchable HTML with commentary at browningguide.org)

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• Leaves from the Note-Books of Lady Dorothy Nevill (London: Macmillan, 1907), by Dorothy Nevill, ed. by Ralph Nevill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Land of Promise: A Comedy in Four Acts (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)
• Jack Straw: A Farce in Three Acts (London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)
• Lady Frederick: A Comedy in Three Acts (Chicago: Dramatic Pub. Co., n.d.), by W. Somerset Maugham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Landed Gentry: A Comedy in Four Acts (Chicago: Dramatic Pub. Co., n.d.), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)

• Two or Three Graces, and Other Stories (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1926), by Aldous Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam and Eve and Pinch Me: Tales (12 story collection; Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1921), by A. E. Coppard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Adam and Eve and Pinch Me: Tales (21 story collection; New York: Knopf, 1922), by A. E. Coppard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Paul the Minstrel, and Other Stories, by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
• The Swindler, and Other Stories, by Ethel M. Dell (Gutenberg text)

• Faithful Stranger, and Other Stories (c1938), by Sheila Kaye-Smith (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Black Doctor, and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1925), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Dog, and Other Stories (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1923), by A. E. Coppard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Career of Katherine Bush (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Elinor Glyn, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944 collection), by Virginia Woolf, ed. by Leonard Woolf (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Human Boy and the War (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Eden Phillpotts (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mixed Grill (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Monday or Tuesday (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1921), by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text)
• Monday or Tuesday, by Virginia Woolf
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • text in Australia
• Nineteen Impressions (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1918), by J. D. Beresford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Prussian Officer, and Other Stories (London: Duckworth and Co., 1914), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• Stingaree (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), by E. W. Hornung, illust. by George W. Lambert
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Table d'Hôte (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tales of Terror and Mystery, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Amazing Years (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by W. Pett Ridge
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Diamond Cross Mystery: Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story (Cleveland and New York: Press of the Commercial Bookbinding Co., 1918), by Chester K. Steele (Gutenberg text)
• The Middle of the Road: A Novel (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Philip Gibbs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Sorrell and Son (1925), by Warwick Deeping (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance (new and cheaper edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1915), by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Freaks of Mayfair (London et al.: T. N. Foulis, 1916), by E. F. Benson, illust. by George Plank
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Virgin and the Gipsy (1930), by D. H. Lawrence (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Try Anything Twice, by Jan Struther (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The London Spy: A Book of Town Travels (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1922), by Thomas Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out and About: A Note-Book of London in War-Time (London, G. Allen and Unwin, c1919), by Thomas Burke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Setons (written as "O. Douglas"), by Anna Buchan (Gutenberg text)

• Die Stellvertretung im Rechte der Papyri (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1906), by Leopold Wenger
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013), by Anke Timmermann
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• L'Histoire Naturelle et Generalle des Indes, Isles, et Terre Ferme de la Grand Mer Oceane (in French; Paris: Imp. de M. de Vascosan, 1555), by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, trans. by Jean Poleur (page images at Gallica)

• The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays Illustrative of the History, Arts and Manners of the 9th Century (2 volumes; London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1858), by King of England Alfred, ed. by J. A. Giles
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• The Religion of the Pope, and Primitive Christianity: A Contrast (c1891), by J. Antisell Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Solemn Question! Can the Protestants Conscientiously Build Up the Churches of the Pope? (Halifax: Nova Scotia Printing Co., 1873), by Charles Hodge and Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Life in the Convent: or, The Marvellous Personal Experiences of Margaret L. Shepherd (Sister Magdalene Adelaide), Consecrated Penitent of the Arno's Court Convent, Bristol, England (11th edition, c1892), by Margaret L. Shepherd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mysteries of Popery Unveiled in the Unparalleled Sufferings of John Coustos at the Inquisition of Lisbon; To Which is Added The Origin of the Inquisition, and its Establishment in Various Countries, and The Master Key to Popery (Enfield, CT: P. Reynolds and E. Thompson, 1821), by John Coustos and Antonio Gavin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Final Report of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (prepublication English text; 2004), by International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, contrib. by Elie Wiesel (PDF at ushmm.org)

• The Quest for Peace: Principal United States Public Statements and Related Documents on the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, 1967-1983 (Washington: U.S. Dept. of State, 1984), ed. by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• Armenian Atrocities: A Compilation of Views, by Turkey Foreign Ministry (HTML at loc.gov)

• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (the McCarthy hearing transcripts, 1953-1954 (5 volumes plus an index); made public in 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ed. by Donald A. Ritchie, Beth Bolling, and Diane B. Boyle, contrib. by Joseph McCarthy
  • Volume 1: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 2: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 3: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 4: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 5: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Index volume: PDF and HTML at govinfo.gov
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances (8 volumes; Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1908-1916), ed. by H. Oskar Sommer
  • Volume I (Lestoire del Saint Graal): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Lestoire de Merlin): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part III): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Les Aventures ou La Queste del Saint Graal; La Mort le Roi Arthur): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Supplement: Le Livre d'Artus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Index of Names and Places to Volumes I-VII): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Tristan Legend: A Study in Sources (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1969), by Sigmund Eisner (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• A Governor's Wife on the Mining Frontier: The Letters of Mary Edgerton From Montana, 1863-1865, by Mary Wright Edgerton, ed. by James L. Thane (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

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