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• The Fire People (as published in Argosy-AllStory Weekly, 1922), by Ray Cummings (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Our Gold Mine at Hollyhurst: A Prize Story of Massachusetts (Boston: American Humane Education Society, c1893), by Mary Matthews Bray, contrib. by George T. Angell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Crux: A Novel (New York: Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• Sous la Neige (French translation of "Ethan Frome" serialized in La Revue de Paris, 1912), by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Fruit of the Tree, by Edith Wharton, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (multiple editions)
• Streets of Night (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1923), by John Dos Passos (Gutenberg text)
• Wickford Point (c1939), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Bostonians, by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• A Modern Instance, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Alexander's Bridge, by Willa Cather
  • HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• A Chance Acquaintance (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Thinking Machine: Being a True and Complete Statement of Several Intricate Mysteries Which Came Under the Observation of Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., Etc. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1907), by Jacques Futrelle, illust. by Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thinking Machine on the Case (without frontispiece; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Jacques Futrelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miss Theodora: A West End Story (Boston: R. G. Badger and Co., 1898), by Helen Leah Reed, illust. by Florence Pearl England (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Little Girl in Old Boston, by Amanda M. Douglas (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America (2 volumes; New York: S. Colman, 1839), by Rufus Dawes
  • Volume I: HTML at Northwestern
  • Volume II: HTML at Northwestern

• 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)

• The Linwoods, or "Sixty Years Since" in America (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1835), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia

• My Lady Laughter: A Romance of Boston Town in the Days of the Great Siege (Boston: C. M. Clark, c1904), by Dwight Tilton, illust. by Charles H. Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders (New York: The Century Co., 1905), by Henry Wallace Phillips, illust. by Martin Justice (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Cape Cod Stories, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln (Gutenberg text)
• The Taming of Zenas Henry (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by Sara Ware Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Depot Master, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln (Gutenberg text)

• Kaloolah: The Adventures of Jonathan Romer (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by William Starbuck Mayo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • text at archive.org
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (New York: Harper and Bros., 1838), by Edgar Allan Poe (HTML at eapoe.org)
• The Fall of Valor (c1946), by Charles Jackson (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Downright Dencey (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1927), by Caroline Dale Snedeker, illust. by Maginel Wright Barney (page images at HathiTrust)

• The House of the Seven Gables (with introduction by Lathrop), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, contrib. by George Parsons Lathrop (Gutenberg text)
• The House of the Seven Gables (edited for school use; Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1902), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Robert Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Little Girl in Old Salem, by Amanda M. Douglas (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Dulcibel: A Tale of Old Salem (Philadelphia: J. C. WInston Co., 1907), by Henry Peterson, illust. by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• With Force and Arms: A Tale of Love and Salem Witchcraft (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., c1908), by Howard Roger Garis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ye Lyttle Salem Maide: A Story of Witchcraft (Boston et al.: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898), by Pauline Bradford Mackie, illust. by E. W. D. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Silas Bradford's Boy (c1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• Silas Bradford's Boy (c1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• The Delusson Family: A Novel (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1939), by Jacques Ducharme (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Delusson Family: A Novel (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1939), by Jacques Ducharme (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Scout (London: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1863), by Warren St. John (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders (New York: The Century Co., 1905), by Henry Wallace Phillips, illust. by Martin Justice (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times (Boston: Cummings, Hillard and Co., 1824), by Lydia Maria Child
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Northwestern
• Hope Leslie (New York: White, Gallaher, and White, 1827), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
  • Volume I: HTML and page images at Virginia
  • Volume II: HTML and page images at Virginia

• A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six: A Tale of Olden Times (second edition, 2 volumes; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1826), by H. V. Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six: A Tale of Olden Times (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1850), by H. V. Cheney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Mayflower Maid (New York: The Century Co., 1920), by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Man Who Wins, by Robert Herrick (Gutenberg text)

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