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• The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1910), by George Randolph Chester, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford: A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1908), by George Randolph Chester (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• John Rawn, Prominent Citizen (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1912), by Emerson Hough, illust. by M. Leone Bracker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lion and the Mouse: A Story of an American Life Novelized from the Play by Arthur Hornblow, by Charles Klein, contrib. by Arthur Hornblow (Gutenberg text)
• A Tale of Red Roses (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1914), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallingford and Blackie Daw (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1913), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallingford in His Prime (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1913), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young Wallingford (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1912), by George Randolph Chester, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger and Henry Raleigh (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Babbitt (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Sinclair Lewis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to be One, by Peter B. Kyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gilded Age (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Harper and Bros., c1915), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson: By One of the Firm (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1870), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Goodriches: An American Family, by Dane Starbuck (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)

• The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York (based on the 3rd edition, 1913), by William Ingraham Russell (Gutenberg text)

• Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey: Autobiography and Letters (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2002), by J. G. M. Ramsey, ed. by William B. Hesseltine, contrib. by Robert Tracy McKenzie (PDF at Tennessee)

• George Draper Dayton: An Autobiography (privately printed, 1933), by George Draper Dayton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth: or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould (Philadelphia: J. C. Yorston and Co., 1893), by Trumbull White (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Story (Washington: The author, 1918), by Anson Mills, ed. by C. H. Claudy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Andy Blake and the Pot of Gold (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1930), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Andy Blake's Secret Service (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1929), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Andy Blake (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York (based on the 3rd edition, 1913), by William Ingraham Russell (Gutenberg text)

• Russian Policy in the Orthodox East: The Patriarchate of Constantinople (1878-1914) (Warsaw and Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2014), by L. A. Gerd (PDF at DeGruyter)

• George Draper Dayton: An Autobiography (privately printed, 1933), by George Draper Dayton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth: or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould (Philadelphia: J. C. Yorston and Co., 1893), by Trumbull White (multiple formats at archive.org)

• My Story (Washington: The author, 1918), by Anson Mills, ed. by C. H. Claudy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Makers (2009), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• The Daffodil Mystery (first published ca. 1920), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and page images)

• What Diantha Did, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Gutenberg text)
• Emma McChesney & Co., by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text)
• Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1914), by Edna Ferber, illust. by James Montgomery Flagg (Gutenberg text and illustrateed HTML)
• Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney, by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text)

• The Stray Lamb (1929), by Thorne Smith (HTML and MS Reader in the UK; NO US ACCESS)
• Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Rahanvaihtajat (The Moneychangers translated into Finnish; 1915), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg text)
• Swirling Waters (second edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Max Rittenberg (Gutenberg text)
• The Titan, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• The Titan (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by Theodore Dreiser
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Lionel Grimston Fawkes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Driver (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1922), by Garet Garrett (multiple formats at Google)

• A Captain of Industry: Being the Story of a Civilized Man (Girard, KS: The Appeal to Reason, 1906), by Upton Sinclair
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• La Fortune de Gaspard (fifth edition, in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1876), by Sophie Ségur, illust. by J. Gerlier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roger Drake, Captain of Industry (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Henry Kitchell Webster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Double Life (New York: J. E. Kearney. c1909), by Gaston Leroux (Gutenberg text)

• Emmanuel Burden, Merchant of Thames St. in the City of London, Exporter of Hardware: A Record of His Lineage, Speculations, Last Days, and Death, by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1902), by George Horace Lorimer, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger and Martin Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

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