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Homeless persons -- Fiction

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• Homeless persons
• Fiction

• Homeless children -- Fiction
• Rogues and vagabonds -- Fiction
• Tramps -- Fiction

• The Belovéd Vagabond (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1905), by William John Locke (Gutenberg text)
• The Belovéd Vagabond (New York and London: J. Lane, c1906), by William John Locke
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Mad Maudlin (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

• Pied Piper (c1942), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Banner by the Wayside (New York: Random House, c1947), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bruvver Jim's Baby (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Philip Verrill Mighels
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text
• Silas Marner, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (Mobile, AL: S. H. Goetzel, 1863), by George Eliot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text

• Japhet, in Search of a Father, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
• Mad Maudlin (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

• K., by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• K. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1915), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by Charles Edward Chambers
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Let Me Breathe Thunder (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1939), by William Attaway (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Robert Rosenberger (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada (Toronto: Cities Centre Press, 2009), ed. by John David Hulchanski, Philippa Campsie, Shirley B. Y. Chau, Stephen H. Hwang, and Emily Paradis (PDF and Epub at homelesshub.ca)

• Youth Homelessness in Canada: Implications for Policy and Practice (Toronto: Canadian Homelessness Research Network, c2013), by Stephen A. Gaetz (PDF and Epub with commentary at homelesshub.ca)

• Youth Homelessness in Canada: Implications for Policy and Practice (Toronto: Canadian Homelessness Research Network, c2013), by Stephen A. Gaetz (PDF and Epub with commentary at homelesshub.ca)

• Youth Homelessness in Canada: Implications for Policy and Practice (Toronto: Canadian Homelessness Research Network, c2013), by Stephen A. Gaetz (PDF and Epub with commentary at homelesshub.ca)

• Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada (Toronto: Cities Centre Press, 2009), ed. by John David Hulchanski, Philippa Campsie, Shirley B. Y. Chau, Stephen H. Hwang, and Emily Paradis (PDF and Epub at homelesshub.ca)

• Homelessness in California (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2001), by John M. Quigley, Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky (PDF at Berkeley)

• One Thousand Homeless Men: A Study of Original Records (New York: Survey Associates, 1914), by Alice Willard Solenberger (PDF files at Northwestern)

• The Young Outlaw: or, Adrift in the Streets, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)

• Catty Atkins (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1920), by Clarence Budington Kelland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Harding's Luck (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Harding's Luck (New York: F. A. Stokes, 1910), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities (2009), by National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (U.S.) and National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.) (PDF at nationalhomeless.org)

• 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless, by Charles Kroloff (HTML at earthsystems.org)

• Homelessness in California (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2001), by John M. Quigley, Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky (PDF at Berkeley)

• Hunger Among the Homeless: A Survey of 140 Shelters, Food Stamp Participation and Recommendations (Washington: GPO, 1987), by United States House Select Committee on Hunger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fame and Fortune: or, The Progress of Richard Hunter (Boston: Loring, c1868), by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Papers On Out-Door Relief and Tramps, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)
• Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton, c1878), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hobo-Camp-Fire-Tales (9th edition; Cambridge Springs, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1911), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Adventures Of A-No. 1: America's Most Celebrated Tramp (9th edition; Cambridge Springs, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1910), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother Delcassee of The Hoboes, and Other Stories (Erie, PA: A-no. 1 Pub. Co., c1918), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Ways of the Hobo (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No.1 Pub. Co., c1915), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Coast to Coast with Jack London: By A-no 1, The Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Personal Experiences (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1917), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Road (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• From Coast to Coast with Jack London: By A-no 1, The Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Personal Experiences (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1917), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hobo-Camp-Fire-Tales (9th edition; Cambridge Springs, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1911), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Adventures Of A-No. 1: America's Most Celebrated Tramp (9th edition; Cambridge Springs, PA: A-No. 1 Pub. Co., c1910), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother Delcassee of The Hoboes, and Other Stories (Erie, PA: A-no. 1 Pub. Co., c1918), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ways of the Hobo (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No.1 Pub. Co., c1915), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Thorny Path, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Pyxie: A Little Boy of the Pines (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), by Ethel Calvert Phillips, illust. by Maginel Wright Barney (page images at HathiTrust)

• And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Alan M. Ball (HTML at UC Press)

• Papers On Out-Door Relief and Tramps, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.