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• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)
• A comedy of conscience (The Century co., 1903), by S. Weir Mitchell, Norman Kane, Henry Hutt, and Decorative Designers (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marching men. (John Lane, 1917), by Sherwood Anderson, J.J. Little and Ives Company, S.B. Gundy (Firm), Bodley Head (Firm), and John Lane Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common lot (The Macmillan company;, 1904), by Robert Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The son of Royal Langbrith : a novel (Harper & Brothers, 1904), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The consul (Scribner, 1911), by Richard Harding Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crisis (The Macmillan Company;, 1901), by Winston Churchill, Howard Chandler Christy, and Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flower of the Chapdelaines ... (Scribner, 1918), by George Washington Cable (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caleb Conover, railroader (The Authors and Newspapers Association, 1907), by Albert Payson Terhune (page images at HathiTrust)
• The leather pushers (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), by H. C. Witwer, Knickerbocker Press, and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The custom of the country (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913, 1913), by Edith Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twentieth century American novels (American library association, 1927), by William Lyon Phelps and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reprisal (Little, Brown and Company, 1942), by Ethel Vance (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the silver fleece : a novel (Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co., 1911., 1911), by W. E. B. Du Bois, Josephine Pinyon Holmes, H. S. De Lay, W. F. Hall Printing Company, and A.C. McClurg & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabbages and kings (New York : A.L. Burt Company [1904], 1904), by O. Henry and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• The desert of wheat : a novel (New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1919., 1919), by Zane Grey, Joe L. Wheeler, and W. H. D. Koerner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peter Whiffle; his life and works (A.A. Knopf, 1922), by Carl Van Vechten, Plimpton Press, Vail-Ballou Press, Inc Alfred A. Knopf, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to contemporary American fiction, arranged regionally and topically. (N.Y.A. Project, Los Angeles City College, 1939), by Los Angeles City College (page images at HathiTrust)
• The middle passage (Macmillan Co., 1939), by Roland Barker and William Doerflinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The restless sex (Burt, 1918), by Robert W. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best short stories of 1917 : and The Yearbook of the American short story (Small, Maynard, 1918), by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Methuselah (B.W. Dodge & Company, 1909), by John Kendrick Bangs and B.W. Dodge & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Babel; stories of Chicago (A. Wessels, co., 1906), by George Ade and A. Wessels Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Countess Helena : a novel (G.W. Dillingham Company, Publishers, 1900), by Gertrude Hague and G.W. Dillingham Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cake upon the waters (The Century co., 1919), by Zoë Akins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of the border: a romance of the early settlers in the Ohio valley (A.L. Burt company, 1906), by Zane Grey and J. Watson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• One million francs (W. J. Watt & company, 1912), by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Will Grefé, and W.J. Watt & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pembroke Mason affair (The Page Company, 1920), by George Barton, Charles E. Meister, Mass.) Colonial Press (Boston, and Page Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taste of apples (Dodd, Mead and company, 1913), by Jennette Barbour Perry Lee, F. Walter Taylor, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boone Stop (Harper, 1918), by Homer Croy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taxi ; an adventure romance (the Bobbs-Merrill co., 1920), by George Agnew Chamberlain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Merivale banks (G. W. Dillingham company, 1903), by Mary Jane Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light of western stars, a romance (Grosset & Dunlap, 1914), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pigs is pigs. (Doubleday, 1909), by Ellis Parker Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Far from the maddening girls (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904), by Guy Wetmore Carryl, Peter Newell, McClure Press, and Phillips & Co McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Between friends (D. Appleton and Company, 1914), by Robert W. Chambers, Henry Hutt, Henry Hutt, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• I'm from Missouri : (they had to show me) (G.W. Dillingham Co., 1904), by George V. Hobart, Gordon Grant, Decorative Designers (Firm), G.W. Dillingham Co, and Decorative Designers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beat it! (G.W. Dillingham Co., 1907), by George V. Hobart, Gordon Grant, J.J. Little & Co, and G.W. Dillingham Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The depot master (D. Appleton and Company, 1910), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Howard Heath, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charge it. (Harper, 1911), by Irving Bacheller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jingo (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1912), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alias "the Night Wind" : the story of an all-sweeping revenge against false witnesses (G.W. Dillingham Company, 1913), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, J. Hodson Redman, and G.W. Dillingham Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tawi Tawi (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921), by Louis Dodge, Scribner Press, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prudence Palfrey; a novel. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1902), by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clever Betsy, a novel (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), by Clara Louise Burnham and Rose Cecil O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law and the prophets. (Hillacre Bookhouse, 1916), by Edward E. Hunt and Hillacre Bookhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spoils of empire : a romance of the Old World and the New (Little, Brown, 1903), by Francis Newton Thorpe, F. B. Masters, Decorative Designers (Firm), Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, Brown and Company Little, and Decorative Designers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The climbing Courvatels (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909), by Edward W. Townsend, J. V. McFall, and Frederick A. Stokes Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Get next! (G.W. Dillingham Co., 1905), by George V. Hobart, Gordon Grant, J.J. Little (Firm), and G.W. Dillingham Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The actor's child : a study of heredity or anti-natal influences (Peter Eckler, Publisher, 1900), by Henrietta Payne Westbrook, Peter Eckler, Marianna Sloan, and Eckler Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sybil's conquest (The Neely Company, 1900), by M. Ida Stinchfield and Neely Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lizzie Melton : a self-reliant girl (The Author, 1900), by Albert Chavannes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yours, John Armstrong : a novelette (De Witt C. Owen, 1900), by A. D. Norris and De Witt C. Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucky Jim : a story of love and adventure (J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1908), by Arda LaCroix, William G. Beckwith, Joseph Santley, and J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saranac : a story of Lake Champlain (William H. Young & Company, 1901), by John Talbot Smith and William H. Young and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where the heart is; showing that Christmas is what you make it (D. Appleton and Company, 1912), by Will Irwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morana (Christopher publishing house, 1935), by John T. Yates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An interrupted courtship; an American saga, 1904-1915. (Exposition Press, 1963), by Henry Goddard Leach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Call of the woods (Street & Smith, 1908), by Burt L. Standish and Street and Smith Publications (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston : a novel (T.W. Laurie, 1929), by Upton Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stringtown on the pike: a tale of nothernmost Kentucky (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927), by John Uri Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Pirate (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [1926], 1926), by Mac Burney Gates, Elton Thomas, Lotta Woods, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pig iron : Short stories, by Dudrea Parker (Gutenberg ebook)
• The horror in the burying-ground, by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft, illust. by Margaret Brundage and Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• A book of dear dead women, by Edna Worthley Underwood (Gutenberg ebook)
• The collected stories of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding from Munsey's Magazine, 1920-1928, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Amouretta landscape, and other stories, by Adeline Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Heimweh; The siren; The loaded gun; Liebereich; "Iupiter Tonans;" "Sis;" Thor's emerald; Guile, by John Luther Long, illust. by John Wolcott Adams, George Gibbs, W. L. Jacobs, Alice Barber Stephens, and F. Strothmann (Gutenberg ebook)
• Here and beyond, by Edith Wharton, illust. by Edward C. Caswell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cupid and the law : a collection of short stories, by Rae Soares (Gutenberg ebook)
• O. Henry memorial award prize stories of 1923, ed. by Society of Arts and Sciences (U.S.), contrib. by Blanche Colton Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Vain oblations, by Katharine Fullerton Gerould (Gutenberg ebook)
• When everybody knew, by Raymond S. Spears (Gutenberg ebook)
• Possession : a novel, by Louis Bromfield (Gutenberg ebook)
• The unwelcome man : a novel, by Waldo David Frank (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chains : lesser novels and stories, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Emperor of Elam, and other stories, by H. G. Dwight (Gutenberg ebook)
• The spokesman's secretary : Being the letters of Mame to Mom, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg ebook)
• The abandoned farm, and Connie's mistake, by Mary Jane Holmes, illust. by Gordon Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Oliver October, by George Barr McCutcheon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Over the border, by Morgan Robertson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Betrothed for a day: Or, Queenie Trevalyn's love test, by Laura Jean Libbey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Best laid schemes, by Meredith Nicholson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The loves of Pelleas and Etarre, by Zona Gale (Gutenberg ebook)
• Short stories from Life: The 81 prize stories in "Life's" Shortest Story Contest, contrib. by Thomas L. Masson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Big Mogul, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eris, by Robert W. Chambers (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Valley of Content, by Blanche Upright (Gutenberg ebook)
• Caleb Conover, Railroader, by Albert Payson Terhune, illust. by Frank Parker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Raw Material, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Blackguard, by Maxwell Bodenheim, illust. by Wallace Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• Special Detective (Ashton-Kirk), by John T. McIntyre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Apes and Angels, by Richard Edward Connell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery, by Geraldine Bonner, illust. by Harrie F. Stoner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Are Parents People?, by Alice Duer Miller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Spawn of the Desert, by W. C. Tuttle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Val Sinestra, by Martha Morton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Great American Novel, by William Carlos Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Thrifty Stock, and Other Stories, by Ben Ames Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Portland, Oregon, A.D. 1999, and other sketches, by J. W. Hayes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Timber-Wolf, by Jackson Gregory (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book, by Djuna Barnes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Introducing Irony: A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems, by Maxwell Bodenheim (Gutenberg ebook)
• The House of Helen, by Corra Harris (Gutenberg ebook)
• Horses and Men: Tales, long and short, from our American life, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Open Window: Tales of the Months, by Mabel Osgood Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lake Mystery, by Marvin Dana, illust. by J. Allen St. John (Gutenberg ebook)
• Faulkner's Folly, by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Praying Skipper, and Other Stories, by Ralph Delahaye Paine, illust. by W. J. Aylward, Walter Appleton Clark, and J. C. Leyendecker (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Briary Bush: A Novel, by Floyd Dell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Running Free, by James B. Connolly (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Bellman Book of Fiction, 1906-1919, ed. by William C. Edgar (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lanagan, Amateur Detective, by Edward H. Hurlbut, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Undercurrent, by Robert Grant, illust. by F. C. Yohn (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Strife of the Sea, by T. Jenkins Hains, illust. by Clifford W. Ashley and W. J. Aylward (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Black Lion Inn, by Alfred Henry Lewis, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg ebook)
• Enchantment, by Harold MacGrath, illust. by Lester Ralph (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bahama Bill, Mate of the Wrecking Sloop Sea-Horse, by T. Jenkins Hains, illust. by Henry Reuterdahl (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Restless Sex, by Robert W. Chambers, illust. by William Dodge Stevens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Murder at Large, by Lesley Frost (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hand of the Mighty, and Other Stories, by Vaughan Kester, contrib. by Paul Kester (Gutenberg ebook)
• Simeon Tetlow's Shadow, by Jennette Lee (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Revolt of the Oyster, by Don Marquis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Carter, and Other People, by Don Marquis (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Bullet for Cinderella, by John D. MacDonald (Gutenberg ebook)
• Painted Veils, by James Huneker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent, by John T. McIntyre, illust. by Ralph L. Boyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Black Eagle Mystery, by Geraldine Bonner, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist, by John T. McIntyre, illust. by Ralph L. Boyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The heart of Thunder Mountain, by Edfrid A. Bingham, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (Gutenberg ebook)
• "No Clue!": A Mystery Story, by James Hay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Spinners' Book of Fiction, by Spinners' Club (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Winning Clue, by James Hay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ashton-Kirk, Investigator, by John T. McIntyre, illust. by Ralph L. Boyer (Gutenberg ebook)

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