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• Anthony Adverse (c1933), by Hervey Allen (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Jack (translated from the fortieth thousand, French edition, 1877), by Alphonse Daudet, trans. by Mary Neal Sherwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• To the Last Man, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• To the Last Man (Roslyn, NY: W. J. Black, c1922), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam Bede, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Adam Bede (New York: J. B. Alden, 1884), by George Eliot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Charlotte Temple, by Mrs. Rowson (Gutenberg text)
• Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Ewer, 1824), by Mrs. Rowson (multiple formats at Google)
• East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood (Gutenberg text)
• Howards End, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)
• The Sound and the Fury (New York: Random House, c1929), by William Faulkner
  • multiple formats with commentary at FadedPage
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (illustrated edition; New York: G. H. Doran Co., n.d.), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illust. by Hugh Thomson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• 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)
• Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (London: Partridge and Oakley, 1853), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Clotelle (Boston: J. Redpath, 1864), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or, The Colored Heroine (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg text)
• Possession (London: Macmillan and Co., 1923), by Mazo De la Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1910), by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Velma Swanston Howard (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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

• The Unmarried Mother: A Study of Five Hundred Cases (Criminal Science Monograph #3; 1918), by Percy Gamble Kammerer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Miriam Allen De Ford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1995), by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (PDF at cdc.gov)

• A High Wind in Jamaica (London: Chatto and Windus, c1929), by Richard Hughes
  • HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Madness of Philip, and Other Tales of Childhood (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1902.), by Josephine Daskam Bacon, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Believing Years (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)

• I'm Nobody's Child (Ardmore, PA: Whitman Pub. Co., c1982), by Kenneth J. Herrmann (PDF with commentary at Brockport)

• The Lamplighter (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, 1854), by Maria S. Cummins
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern
• Aaron the Jew: A Novel (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1895), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google
• 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
• The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)

• Decline and Fall (revised edition, c1962), by Evelyn Waugh (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Red Pony (illustrator died in 1966; c1937), by John Steinbeck, illust. by Wesley Dennis (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
• David Copperfield (2 volumes; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, ca. 1850), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden (Los Angeles: Seraphic Press, 2005), by Robert J. Avrech (PDF with commentary at seraphicpress.com)
• Penrod, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Penrod (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Gordon Grant (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Penrod and Sam, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Penrod and Sam (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1916), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Worth Brehm (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Three Rousing Cheers for the Rollo Boys (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Corey Ford, illust. by Gluyas Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dogland (prepublication version, 1997), by Will Shetterly (multiple formats at manybooks.net)
• A Child of the Jago (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1897), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Child of the Jago (New York: Duffield and Co., 1906), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance (new and cheaper edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1915), by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
• Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life (1929), by Thomas Wolfe (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (c1934), by James Hilton (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Hole in the Wall (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1903), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kim (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1901), by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Kim (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1901), by Rudyard Kipling
  • illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Kim: Koko Maailman Pikku Ystävä (in Finnish; Hämeenlinna: A. A. Karisto, 1917), by Rudyard Kipling, trans. by Hannes Leiviskä (Gutenberg text)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1882), by Mark Twain, illust. by Frank T. Merrill, John J. Harley, and Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Prinssi ja Kerjäläispoika (The Prince and the Pauper in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1908), by Mark Twain, trans. by Tyko Hagman (Gutenberg text)
• Sir Gibbie, by George MacDonald
  • multiple formats with commentary at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text
• A Son of the State (London: Methuen and Co., 1902), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Brown's Schooldays (with illustrations from the 1911 Harper and Brothers edition), by Thomas Hughes, contrib. by William Dean Howells, illust. by Louis Rhead (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.