City and town life -- Fiction
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Peyton Place (author died in 1964; c1956), by Grace Metalious (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)- Ulysses, by James Joyce (multiple editions)
- The Adventures of Harry Franco: A Tale of the Great Panic (New York: F. Saunders, 1839), by Charles F. Briggs
- Anna of the Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg tex)
- Antic Hay (London: Chatto and Windus, c1923), by Aldous Huxley (Gutenberg text)
- The Booming of Acre Hill, and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life, by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Chronicles of Avonlea (Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1912), by L. M. Montgomery (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Conquest of Canaan, by Booth Tarkington
- Further Chronicles of Avonlea (Boston: The Page Company, 1920), by L. M. Montgomery
- Heart's Desire: The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908), by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Middlemarch, by George Eliot
- The Regent: A Five Towns Story of Adventure in London, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1915), by Sinclair Lewis, illust. by Norman Rockwell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- With the Procession, by Henry Blake Fuller (Gutenberg text)
- Not Without Laughter (London and New York: A. A. Knopf, 1930), by Langston Hughes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- 253 (electronic edition), by Geoff Ryman (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Bedlam's Edge (included on a Baen CD image), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
- The Calling of Dan Matthews, by Harold Bell Wright (Gutenberg text)
- The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (London: Methuen and Co., c1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text and audio)
- The Cock and Anchor (London: Downey and Co., ca.1895), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, illust. by Brinsley Le Fanu (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Denry the Audacious (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- The Matador of the Five Towns, and Other Stories, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
- Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, contrib. by Irving Howe (Gutenberg text)
- Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Sherwood Anderson (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories, by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (Gutenberg text)
- Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- Tales of the Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- 1632, by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
- Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
- The House of the Sorcerer: Being an Account of Certain Things That Chanced Therein (Boston: R. G. Badger and Co., 1900), by Haldane Macfall (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer: Being the Personal History of Jehu Sennacherib Dyle, Commonly Called Masheen Dyle, Together With an Account of Certain Things That Chanced in the House of the Sorcerer (London: G. Richards, 1898), by Haldane Macfall
- Old Creole Days, by George Washington Cable
- Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by George Washington Cable (page images at HathiTrust)
- Balcony Stories, by Grace Elizabeth King (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Tales of City Life, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: City and town life- Small Town (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Granville Hicks, contrib. by Warren F. Broderick and Ron Powers (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- Degeneration Amongst Londoners (1885), by James Cantlie (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
- The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
- The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home (New York: J. F. Taylor and Co., 1901), by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story (read by the author in its entirety; c2004), by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (MP3 files (select this title from the "choose a book" menu) at pinkwater.com)
- Just Across the Street (New York: Macmillan, 1933), by Rachel Field (page images at HathiTrust)
- Skipping Village: A Town of Not So Very Long Ago (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1927), by Lois Lenski
- The Boy From the Ranch: or, Roy Bradner's City Experiences, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- An Old-Fashioned Girl (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950), by Louisa May Alcott (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott
- The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (New York: F. Warne and Co., 1918), by Beatrix Potter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- 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)
- When Are We Happiest? or, The Little Camerons (sixth edition; Boston: W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1848), by Louisa C. Tuthill
- Prufrock and Other Observations, by T. S. Eliot
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