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• New York : its upper ten and lower million. (H.M. Rulison, Queen City Publishing House, 278 Western Row, 1853), by George Lippard and H. M. Rulison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poor White, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)

• The Decadent: Being the Gospel of Inaction, Wherein Are Set Forth in Romance Form Certain Reflections Touching the Curious Characteristics of These Ultimate Years, and the Divers Causes Thereof (privately printed for the author, 1893), by Ralph Adams Cram (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Inheritors, by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (Gutenberg text)
• The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
  • HTML at Bartleby
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• The Magnificent Ambersons (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1918), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Arthur William Brown (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The inheritors; an extravagant story (Doubleday, Page & co., 1923), by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inheritors; an extravagant story (W. Heinemann, 1901), by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The magnificent Ambersons (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1920), by Booth Tarkington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anderby Wold, by Winifred Holtby (Gutenberg ebook)

• Tommy Upmore (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884), by R. D. Blackmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monarch of Mincing-Lane : a novel (Tinsley Brothers, 1871), by William Black and Tinsley Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great refusal (D. Appleton and Company, 1906), by Maxwell Gray, Margaret Armstrong, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Partisan Leader, by Beverley Tucker (multiple editions)
• Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (multiple editions)
• The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow, by S. Weir Mitchell (Gutenberg text)
• The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow (New York: The Century Co., 1900), by S. Weir Mitchell, illust. by A. J. Keller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Captain Jinks, Hero, by Ernest Crosby, illust. by Daniel Carter Beard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Illustrations of Political Economy (third edition, 9 volumes; London: Charles Fox, 1832), by Harriet Martineau (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills, by Ralph Connor (Gutenberg text)
• Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marcella, by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
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• Caesar's Column (Caesars Soile): En Beretning fra det Tyvende Aarhundrede (in Norwegian; Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., 1892), by Ignatius Donnelly (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., c1890), by Ignatius Donnelly
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  • Gutenberg text
• Caesars Kolonn: En Berattelse fran Tjugonde Arhundradet (in Swedish; Chicago: Swedish Book Co., 1891), by Ignatius Donnelly, trans. by Jakob Bonggren
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• Drama Budoucnosti: Z historie XX. Století (Caesar's Column in Czech; Prague: J. R. Vilimek, n.d.), by Ignatius Donnelly, trans. by Václav Patejdl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manhattan Transfer (first edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1925), by John Dos Passos (multiple formats at Google)
• The Power and the Glory, by Grace MacGowan Cooke, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (Gutenberg text)
• Marcella (Macmillan and co., 1894), by Mrs. Humphry Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manhattan transfer (Harper & brothers, 1925), by John Dos Passos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Whose fault? (Published by Solomon Bauch, 1908), by Solomon Bauch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rough justice (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1898), by M. E. Braddon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Her journey's end (Benziger Brothers, 1911), by Frances Cooke and Benziger Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marcella (Macmillan and Co., 1895), by Mrs. Humphry Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A certain rich man (The Macmillan Company, 1909), by William Allen White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cæsar's column. (F. J. Schulte & company, 1892), by Ignatius Donnelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les misérables (Little, Brown and co., 1887), by Victor Hugo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common lot (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, publishers, [1904], 1904), by Robert Herrick, Norwood Press, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Looking backward, 2000-1887 (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889), by Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great refusal (D. Appleton and Company, 1906), by Maxwell Gray, Margaret Armstrong, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Types of men and women (as studied through ideality) (s.n.], 1907), by Mary McArthur T. Tuttle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charm of the impossible (F.M. Barton Company, 1910), by Margaret Slattery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bond and free (Cincinnati ;, 1913), by Jean Connor, Benziger Brothers, and Decorative Designers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fleetwood : or, The new man of feeling (AMS Press, 1975), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ein rückblick aus dem jahre 2037 auf das jahr 2000. Aus den erinnerungen des herrn Juliam West. (C. Ulrich & co., 1891), by Ernst Müller and Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lummox, by Fannie Hurst (Gutenberg ebook)
• Illustrations of political economy, Volume 9 (of 9), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg ebook)
• The banker and the bear : The story of a corner in lard, by Henry Kitchell Webster (Gutenberg ebook)
• The circuit rider : A tale of the heroic age, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Illustrations of political economy, Volume 8 (of 9), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Illustrations of political economy, Volume 7 (of 9), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Illustrations of political economy, Volume 6 (of 9), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Illustrations of political economy, Volume 5 (of 9), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos (Gutenberg ebook)
• Illustrations of political economy, Volume 4 (of 9), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Illustrations of political economy, Volume 3 (of 9), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Illustrations of political economy, Volume 2 (of 9), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Illustrations of political economy, Volume 1 (of 9), by Harriet Martineau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Marcella: Romaani (in Finnish), by Humphry Ward, trans. by Toini Swan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The 13th District: A Story of a Candidate, by Brand Whitlock (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Common Lot, by Robert Herrick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Orchid, by Robert Grant, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slechte Tijden (in Dutch), by Charles Dickens, trans. by C. M. Mensing, illust. by H. French (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Turn of the Balance, by Brand Whitlock, illust. by Jay Hambidge (Gutenberg ebook)
• Comrade Yetta, by Albert Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Certain Rich Man, by William Allen White (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sevenoaks: A Story of Today, by J. G. Holland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Nine-Tenths, by James Oppenheim (Gutenberg ebook)

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