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• Property, Acquisition of

• Squatter Settlements: The Problem and the Opportunity (Washington: Division of International Affairs, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 1966), by Charles Abrams
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at usaid.gov

• The Backwoods' Bride: A Romance of Squatter Life (London: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1861), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cracking the Movement: Squatting Beyond the Media (1994), by Adilkno, trans. by Laura Martz (HTML at networkcultures.org)

• The Mailo System in Buganda: A Preliminary Case Study in African Land Tenure (1965), by Henry W. West (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Issues in Customary Land Law (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Institute of National Affairs, 1989), by Robert Cooter (PDF at bepress.com)

• The Mailo System in Buganda: A Preliminary Case Study in African Land Tenure (1965), by Henry W. West (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899), by Charles C. Royce, contrib. by Cyrus Thomas (PDF at MSU)

• Connecticut; Old John Uncas and the Greater Part of the Tribe of Moheagan Indians, by Samuel Mason Their Guardian, Appellants; The Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America, and George Richards, Esq. ,and Several Other Persons, Intruders on the Lands in Question, Respondents: The Appellants Case (ca. 1770), by Charles Yorke and Fowler Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Status of Certain Land Held in Trust for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second session, on S. 1967 (Washington: GPO, 2000), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Caucasians Only: The Supreme Court, the NAACP, and the Restrictive Covenant Cases (third printing; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), by Clement E. Vose (multiple formats at Google)
• People vs. Property: Race Restrictive Covenants in Housing (Nashville: Fisk University Press, 1947), by Herman H. Long and Charles Spurgeon Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plain Facts: Being an Examination Into the Rights of the Indian Nations of America to Their Respective Countries (Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken, 1781), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Detailed Report Upon All Claims to Land and Right to Participate in the North-West Half-Breed Grant By Settlers Along the South Saskatchewan and Vicinity West of Range 26, W. 2nd Meridian: Being the Settlements Commonly Known As St. Louis De Langevin, St. Laurent or Batoche and Duck Lake (1886), by William Pearce (page images at Alberta)

• Facts Relative to the Canadian Indians (London: Harvey and Darton, 1839), by Society of Friends Meeting for Suferings (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Affairs in the Indian Territory (Washington: GPO, 1907), by United States Department of the Interior (page images at Google; US access only)

• Claim Number One (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1922), by George W. Ogden, illust. by J. Allen St. John (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Die Collation Anrechenbarer Gaben und Reiner Schenkungen und ihr Einfluss auf die Bestimmung des Pflichtteils nach Österreichischem Rechte, bearb. unter zugrundelegung der einschlägigen materialien, von dr. Emil Breuer (in German; Vienna: M. Perles, 1901), ed. by Emil Breuer
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  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Les Droits de Succession en France, en Angleterre et en Autriche-Hongrie: Législation Comparée et Conflits (Double Mutation) (University of Paris doctoral thesis in French; Paris: A. Rousseau, 1910), by Pierre Bablot
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Cat and the Canary: A Melodrama in Three Acts (London and New York: S. French, ca. 1954), by John Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• King Lear, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• The Cat and the Canary: A Melodrama in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1927), by John Willard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "I'll Leave It To You": A Light Comedy In Three Acts (London et al.: S. French, c1920), by Noel Coward
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Volpone, by Ben Jonson (Gutenberg text)
• Epicoene, by Ben Jonson (Gutenberg text)

• The Old Manor House (London: J. Bell, 1793; Reprinted London: Pandora Press, 1987), by Charlotte Smith (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Purple Parrot: A Theocritus Lucius Westborough Story (Garden City, NY, Pub. for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1937), by Clyde B. Clason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Angel Esquire (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1927), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Basil, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gutenberg text)
• The Beautiful and Damned (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Belton Estate, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Brewster's Millions, by George Barr McCutcheon (Gutenberg text)
• Brewster's Millions (Chicago: H. S. Stone and Co., 1903), by George Barr McCutcheon (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole (Gutenberg text)
• Cecilia: or, Memoirs of an Heiress, by Fanny Burney
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
  • volume III: Gutenberg text
• Checkmate (London: Downey and Co., ca.1898), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chief Legatee, by Anna Katharine Green, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Children of the Abbey (based on single-volume 1877 Philadelphia edition), by Regina Maria Roche (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Children of the Abbey: A Tale (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1876), by Regina Maria Roche, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Children of the Wind (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1923), by M. P. Shiel (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Gevoel en Verstand (Sense and Sensibility in Dutch; Amsterdam: Maatschappij voor Goede en Goedkoope Lectuur, 1922), by Jane Austen, trans. by Gonne Loman-van Uildriks (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The House of a Thousand Candles (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1905), by Meredith Nicholson (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The House of a Thousand Candles, by Meredith Nicholson, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Howards End, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Is He Popenjoy? (third edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1879), by Anthony Trollope
  • Gutenberg text
  • muliple formats at archive.org
• Lady Anna (2 volumes in 1; London: Chapman and Hall,1874), by Anthony Trollope (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)
• Marie Bertrand: or, The Felon's Daughter (originally published 1864), by Horatio Alger (text at Wayback Machine)
• Miss Mackenzie, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Scarborough's Family, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe (Gutenberg text)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry (third edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by Ann Radcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mysterious Key, and What it Opened (Boston: Elliot, Thomes and Talbot, 1867), by Louisa May Alcott (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Old Manor House (based on the British Novelists two-volume edition, 1810-1820), by Charlotte Smith, ed. by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Orley Farm (new edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Anthony Trollope (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Raison et Sensibilité, ou Les Deux Manières d'Aimer (4 volumes in French; Paris: Arthus-Bertrand, 1815), by Jane Austen, trans. by Isabelle de Montolieu
  • Tome 1: Gutenberg text
  • Tome 2: Gutenberg text
  • Tome 3: Gutenberg text
  • Tome 4: Gutenberg text
• Ralph the Heir, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Francis Arthur Fraser (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Sense and Sensibility (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1864), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sense and Sensibility (London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by Jane Austen, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation, by Harry Leon Wilson, illust. by Rose Cecil O'Neill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Things By Their Right Names: A Novel in Two Volumes by a Person Without a Name (formerly erroneously attributed to Alethea Lewis, now attributed to Jacson; London: G. Robinson, 1812), by Frances Jacson
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes transcribed: PDF at chawtonhouse.org
• Wylder's Hand, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Gutenberg text)
• Brat Farrar (c1949), by Josephine Tey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Anthony Adverse (c1933), by Hervey Allen (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Claverings (with illustrations from the magazine and book editions), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Mary Ellen Edwards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cousin Henry, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Master of Ballantrae, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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• The Mystery of 31 New Inn, by R. Austin Freeman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Old English Baron, by Clara Reeve (Gutenberg text)
• The Rose and the Key (3 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Second Thoughts (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1880), by Rhoda Broughton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Spoils of Poynton (based on the 1897 Heinemann edition), by Henry James (HTML with commentary at the Ladder)
• Veljekset (The Master of Ballantrae in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1921), by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• The Portrait of a Lady (New York edition of 1908), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• The Portrait of a Lady (Harvard Classics edition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1917), by Henry James (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• World's End: A Story in Three Books (3 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by Richard Jefferies
  • Volume I (Facts): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Person): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Results): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: Gutenberg text
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Bleak House (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jew Detective: or, The Beautiful Convict (Beadle's New York Dime Library #662; New York: Beadle and Adams, 1891), by Prentiss Ingraham (mlutiple formats at niu.edu)
• Ravenshoe (new edition; London et al.: Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1894), by Henry Kingsley, illust. by Richard Caton Woodville (Gutenberg text)
• The Two Admirals: A Tale (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• The Two Admirals: A Tale (New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1871), by James Fenimore Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Admirals: A Tale (New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1872), by James Fenimore Cooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wyvern Mystery: A Novel (London: Ward and Downey, 1889), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, illust. by Brinsley Le Fanu (page images at Google; US access only)

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