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• The parent's assistant; or, Stories for children (G. Routledge, 1891), by Maria Edgeworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam Bede (J. M. Dent;, 1906), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Deronda. (Harper & Bros., 1876), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silas Marner. (American Book Company, 1911), by George Eliot and May McKitrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laddie : a true blue story (Grosset & Dunlap, 1913), by Gene Stratton-Porter and Herman Pfeifer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Far from the madding crowd (Harper & brothers, 1895), by Thomas Hardy and H. Macbeth-Raeburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus (Ginn & Co., 1896), by Thomas Carlyle and Archibald MacMechan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tom Grogan (Houghton, Mifflin, 1896), by Francis Hopkinson Smith and Charles Stanley Reinhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life (William Blackwood and Sons, 1871), by George Eliot and William Blackwood and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded, in a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents: afterwards, in her exalted condition, between her, and persons of figure and quality, upon the most important and entertaining subjects, in genteel life ... (Printed at the Shakespeare head Press and Pub. for the Press by B. Blackwell, Oxford, 1929), by Samuel Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children's friend (Printed for J. Stockdale ... F. and C. Rivington ... B. Law and Son ... J. Johnson ... C. Dilly ... J. Murray ... J. Sewell ... and W. Creech ..., 1793), by M. Berquin, William Creech, John Sewell, John Murray, Charles Dilly, Joseph Johnson, John Stockdale, Lucas Williams, B. Law and Son, and F. and C. Rivington (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus; the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh, in three books. (J. Munroe, 1846), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monsieur Beaucaire (Grosset & Dunlap, 1900), by Booth Tarkington and C. D. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Carrie (New York : B.W. Dodge & Company, 1907, 1907), by Theodore Dreiser and B.W. Dodge & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two on a tower; a novel (H. Holt and Company, 1882), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moneychangers (B.W. Dodge & Company, 1908), by Upton Sinclair and B.W. Dodge & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Deronda (William Blackwood and Sons, 1876), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life (Harper and Brothers, 1873), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamela, or Virtue rewarded. (London, 1902), by Samuel Richardson and Edward Francesco Burney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Things as they are. (Baudry's European Library, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amelia (Blackwell, 1926), by Henry Fielding (page images at HathiTrust)
• We and the world : a book for boys (G. Bell & Sons, 1910), by Juliana Horatia Ewing and M. V. Wheelhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elsie Venner; a romance of destiny (Houghton Mifflin company, 1891), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Netty Renton = or the ghost (G. P. Putnam, 1869), by William Douglas O'Connor, Thomas Nast, New York Printing Company, Son & Marston Sampson Low, and G.P. Putnam & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glance behind the scenes (Fowler and Wells, 1852), by Hannah Gardner Creamer and John Harvey Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam Bede (Harper & Brothers, 1859), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harry and Lucy concluded : being the last part of early lessons. In four volumes (Printed for R. Hunter [and three others], 1827), by Maria Edgeworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus, the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh, in three books ... (C. Scribner's sons, 1899), by Thomas Carlyle and H. D. Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus (W.B. Conkey Company, 1900), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus. (J. Munroe and company;, 1837), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a child, on the subject of maritime discovery (Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1820), by Emily Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palmyre (Parmantier, 1823), by Madame de Renneville, Parmentier (Bookseller), and Imp. d'Aug. Leclercq (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maritime Discovery (Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, No. 261, Pearl-Street ;, 1821), by Emily Taylor, Samuel S. Wood & Co, and Samuel Wood & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and sufferings of Cecelia Mayo, founded on incidents in real life. (Published by M. Aurelius, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Far from the madding crowd (Harper, 1912), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crater : or, Vulcan's Peak. (AMS Press, 1979), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charlotte Temple. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1864), by Mrs. Rowson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated history of the robins (Griffith and Farran, Successors to Newbery and Harris..., 1869), by Sarah Trimmer, John Greenaway, Harrison Weir, and Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caleb Williams. (Harper & brothers, 1870), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glen of the echoes, or Dan Mahony and Dora Sullivan, a tale of Ireland. (S. Andrus and son, 1845), by Harriet Martineau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cœlebs in search of a wife. (Derby & Jackson, 1857), by Hannah More (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pencil sketches; or, Outlines of character and manners. (Carey, Lea & Blanchard., 1835), by Eliza Leslie, T.K. Collins & Co, and Lea & Blanchard Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lamentable history of the beautiful and accomplished Charlotte Temple, with an account of her elopment with Lieutenant Montroville ... (Barclay & co., 1865), by Mrs. Rowson, John Barnitz Bacon, and J. Barnitz Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. (Chapman and Hall, 1872), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coral necklace : intended for the amusement of children (Printed and sold by J.E. Evans, 1829), by Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life among the lowly (Houghton, Mifflin, 1891), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Whitman, and E. W. Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amelia (Harper, 1902), by Henry Fielding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The memoirs of Mr. C. J. Yellowplush : The Fitzboodle papers: The wolves and the lamb: Stories and sketches (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1889), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ramona : a story (Roberts Brothers, 1884), by Helen Hunt Jackson, John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Mass.) Roberts Brothers (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life among the lowly (T. Y. Crowell & company, 1897), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life among the lowly. (Houghton, Osgood and company, 1879), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and George Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melchior's dream and other tales (George Bell and Sons ..., 1886), by Juliana Horatia Ewing, Gordon Browne, Mrs. Alfred Gatty, George Bell & Sons, Chiswick Press, and C. Whittingham and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Deronda. (Crowell, 1893), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles; a pure woman faithfully presented. (A.L. Burt Company, 1921), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Gorgon Graham : more letters from a self-made merchant to his son (Grosset & Dunlap, 1904), by George Horace Lorimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Little Nell (American Book Co., 1901), by Charles Dickens and Jane Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Deronda. (Belford, Clarke & co., 1886), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beautiful Joe : an autobiography (C.H. Banes, 1903), by Marshall Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last sentence (Tait Sons, 1893), by Maxwell Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sartor resartus; the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. Heroes and hero-worship. (Estes and Lauriat, 1885), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam Bede. (Century, 1910), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• One day; a tale of the prairies (Arena Publishing Co., 1893), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ramona : a story (Roberts brothers, 1892), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nim and Cum. (Way and Williams, 1895), by Catharine Brooks Yale, Bruce Rogers, Way & Williams, Ill.) Lakeside Press (Chicago, and R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anna Karenina (Walter Scott, 1889), by Leo Tolstoy and Nathan Haskell Dole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emma's triumph (United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1886), by Jane S. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• A noble girl : a book devoted to the uplifting of character and modern society (Collie Printing Co., 1906), by Ada Cornelius Brannon and Collie Printing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dred; a tale of the great Dismal Swamp. (S. Low, Son & Co., 1856), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Daniel Deronda... (Doubleday, Page & co., 1901), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old, old tales retold : eight best-beloved folk stories for children (Chicago, Illinois ; Boston, Massachusetts ; New York, New York ; Toronto, Ontario : P. F. Volland Company, [1923], 1923), by Frederick Richardson and P.F. Volland Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fleetwood : or, The new man of feeling (AMS Press, 1975), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The fishers of Derby Haven. (The Religious tract society, 1866), by Hesba Stretton and Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dude rancher, a story of modern ranching (Dodd, Mead & company, 1941), by Stephen B. Strang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The crater. (G.P. Putnam's sons, in the 19th century), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Deronda : Roman (Jüdischer Verlag, 1918), by George Eliot, Adolf Strodtmann, and Alexander Eliasberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adam Bede. (Dana Estes, 1800), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pink roses (T. Fisher Unwin, 1919), by Gilbert Cannan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little Henry's holiday at the Great Exhibition (London : Houlston & Stoneman, [1851], 1851), by S. Prout Newcombe, Elijah Whymper, William Dickes, Duff Petter, Houlston and Stoneman, and England) Great Exhibition (1851 : London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bosom friends : a seaside story (Thomas Nelson and Sons, in the 1910s), by Angela Brazil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vi︠e︡khi : sbornik razskazov (Izd. zhurnala "Rodnai︠a︡ Niva", 1925), by Innokentiĭ Charov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The brothers Karamazov [by] Fyodor Dostoevsky. (Dent:, 1927), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Constance Garnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Uncle Tom's cabin. (Dodd, Mead, 1952), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The return of the native. (Harper & Brothers, 1906), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adam Bede (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by George Eliot and Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The banker and the bear : The story of a corner in lard, by Henry Kitchell Webster (Gutenberg ebook)
• Look on the sunny side : and other sketches, by Ruth Lamb (Gutenberg ebook)
• A püspök lelke : Regény nagyon kevés szerelemmel, a lelkiismeretről és vallásról és az életnek igazi bonyodalmairól (in Hungarian), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Sándor Tonelli (Gutenberg ebook)
• Too dearly bought : or, The town strike, by Agnes Giberne, illust. by M. Irwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les mémoires d'un valet de pied (in French), by William Makepeace Thackeray, trans. by William L. Hughes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Janet's boys, by Annette Lyster, illust. by W. S. Stacey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Karamazovin veljekset II : Romaani (in Finnish), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by V. K. Trast (Gutenberg ebook)
• Karamazovin veljekset I : Romaani (in Finnish), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by V. K. Trast (Gutenberg ebook)
• Heedless Hetty, by Annette Lyster (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nuoren naisen kohtalo (in Finnish), by Theodor Fontane, trans. by J. A. Hollo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Friendless Felicia : Or, a little city sparrow, by Eleanora H. Stooke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sininen silmäpari (in Finnish), by Thomas Hardy, trans. by J. A. Hollo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Anthony Cragg's tenant, by Agnes Giberne, illust. by Lancelot Speed (Gutenberg ebook)
• Syvänne : Kuvauksia Chicagon pörssipiireistä (in Finnish), by Frank Norris, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg ebook)
• Angel's Brother, by Eleanora H. Stooke, illust. by William H. C. Groome (Gutenberg ebook)
• Onkel Tom's Hütte : oder die Geschichte eines christlichen Sklaven. Band 3 (von 3). (in German), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by L. Du Bois (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sämtliche Werke 9-10 : Die Brüder Karamasoff (in German), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, ed. by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, trans. by E. K. Rahsin, contrib. by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Strange Visitation, by Marie Corelli (Gutenberg ebook)
• The 13th District: A Story of a Candidate, by Brand Whitlock (Gutenberg ebook)
• Silas X. Floyd's Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young: Entertaining, Uplifting, Interesting, by Silas Xavier Floyd (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pride and His Prisoners, by A. L. O. E., illust. by T. W. Holgate (Gutenberg ebook)
• The White Flag, by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by Lester Ralph (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Common Lot, by Robert Herrick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Onkel Toms Hytte (in Norwegian), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by O. Flæten, illust. by Paul Steffensen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Autobiography of a Female Slave, by Martha Griffith Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pamela vainottuna (in Finnish), by Samuel Richardson, trans. by Väinö Hämeen-Anttila (Gutenberg ebook)
• Anna Karenina (in Finnish), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Eino Kalima (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kunnanlapsi (in Finnish), by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, trans. by Ester Peltonen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Take It from Dad, by George Griswold Livermore (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Minister's Wooing, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dorian Grayn muotokuva (in Finnish), by Oscar Wilde, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tessin tarina (in Finnish), by Thomas Hardy, trans. by Uuno Helve (Gutenberg ebook)
• Anna Karenina, 2. Band (in German), by Leo Tolstoy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Anna Karenina, 1. Band (in German), by Leo Tolstoy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (in German), by Oscar Wilde, trans. by Richard Zoozmann (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury, by Asenath Carver Coolidge, illust. by Cassius M. Coolidge (Gutenberg ebook)
• Horace Chase, by Constance Fenimore Woolson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Άννα Καρένιν (in Greek), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Elias Economopoulos (Gutenberg ebook)
• Comrade Yetta, by Albert Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• La case de l'oncle Tom; ou, vie des nègres en Amérique (in French), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by Louis Enault (Gutenberg ebook)
• Herr und Knecht: Novelle (in German), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Hermann Röhl (Gutenberg ebook)
• Coelebs In Search of a Wife, by Hannah More (Gutenberg ebook)
• Onkel Tom's Hütte : oder die Geschichte eines christlichen Sklaven. Band 1 (von 3). (in German), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by L. Du Bois (Gutenberg ebook)
• Household Papers and Stories, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les aventures de Télémaque suivies des aventures d'Aristonoüs (in French), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon (Gutenberg ebook)
• 'Charge It': Keeping Up With Harry, by Irving Bacheller (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by Constance Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Captain's Bunk: A Story for Boys, by M. B. Manwell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Littlebourne Lock, by F. Bayford Harrison (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy.", by George Horace Lorimer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Plum Tree, by David Graham Phillips, illust. by E. M. Ashe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Morphine (in French), by Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dick and Brownie, by Mabel Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sevenoaks: A Story of Today, by J. G. Holland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pamela, Volume II, by Samuel Richardson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, by George Horace Lorimer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Nine-Tenths, by James Oppenheim (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Henry's holiday at the Great Exhibition (London: Houlston & Stoneman, c1851), by S. Prout Newcombe, illust. by E. Whimper and William Dickes (page images at Florida)

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