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• 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)

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

• 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)
• Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters After Dusk (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2025), ed. by Sara Brandellero, Kamila Krakowska, and Derek Pardue
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Degeneration Amongst Londoners (1885), by James Cantlie (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson (Gutenberg text)

• 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
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: HTML at Northwestern
  • Volume II: HTML at Northwestern
• 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 and Co., 1920), by L. M. Montgomery (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Conquest of Canaan, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Further Chronicles of Avonlea (Boston: The Page Company, 1920), by L. M. Montgomery
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• 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 (Gutenberg text)
• 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 (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The House in Town: A Sequel to "Opportunities" (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1872), by Susan Warner
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Trading: Finishing the Story of "The House in Town", &c. (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1873), by Susan Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Prufrock and Other Observations, by T. S. Eliot
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text

• Evils of the Cities: A Series of Practical and Popular Discourses Delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, c1891), by T. De Witt Talmage (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Deep Mapping the Media City (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2015), by Shannon Christine Mattern (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (London: University College London Press, c2021), by Robert Yeates (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Carlo Rotella (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2012), by Tobias Boes
  • PDF and Epub at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Erik Bond (PDF at Ohio State)

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