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• City and town life -- United States -- 19th century
• City and town life -- Fiction
• United States -- Fiction

• Tales of City Life, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)

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• 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 & Company, 1912), by L. M. Montgomery (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Conquest of Canaan, by Booth Tarkington
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • 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
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • 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
  • HTML at Virginia
  • 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)

• The House of the Sorcerer: Being an Account of Certain Things That Chanced Therein (Boston: R. G. Badger and Co., 1900), by Haldane Macfall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer: Being the Personal History of Jehu Sennacherib Dyle, Commonly Called Masheen Dyle, Together With an Account of Certain Things That Chanced in the House of the Sorcerer (London: G. Richards, 1898), by Haldane Macfall
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• Old Creole Days, by George Washington Cable
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by George Washington Cable (page images at HathiTrust)
• Balcony Stories, by Grace Elizabeth King (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Humpty Dumpty (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924), by Ben Hecht (page images at HathiTrust)

• This Green Thicket World (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1934), by Howell Vines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches, by Johnson Jones Hooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Richard Hurdis: A Tale of Alabama (E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1838), by William Gilmore Simms
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia

• Father Figure (2003), by Ralph Robert Moore (PDF with commentary at ralphrobertmoore.com)
• The Heart of Unaga (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1920), by Ridgwell Cullum (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Iron Trail, by Rex Beach (Gutenberg text)
• Dwellers in the Mirage (1932), by Abraham Merritt (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Alaskan: A Novel of the North, by James Oliver Curwood, illust. by Walt Louderback (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Land of Forgotten Men (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1923), by Edison Marshall, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dangerous Voyage (reissue of "Williwaw"; New York: New American Library, 1953), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Williwaw (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1946), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arizona Argonauts (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1924), by H. Bedford-Jones, illust. by Nicholas Eggenhofer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Call of the Canyon, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona Novelized from Edmund Day's Melodrama, by John Murray and Marion Mills Miller, contrib. by Edmund Day (Gutenberg text)
• Wanderer of the Wasteland (Toronto: Musson Book Co,; New York: Harper and Bros., c1923), by Zane Grey, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Arizona Nights, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
• The Girl Rough Riders: A Romantic and Adventurous Trail of Fair Rough Riders Through the Wonderland of Mystery and Silence (Boston: D. Estes and Co., c1903), by Prentiss Ingraham, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)
• St. Mawr; Together With The Princess (London: M. Secker, 1925), by D. H. Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Drift Fence (c1929), by Zane Grey (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Desert Gold: A Romance of the Border, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Erämaan Kultaa (Desert Gold in Finnish; Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kirja, 1921), by Zane Grey, trans. by Väinö Nyman (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• The Vanishing American (as originally published in the Ladies' Home Journal, 1922-1923), by Zane Grey, illust. by Pruett Carter and Frank Street
  • Part 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Part 2: page images at HathiTrust
  • Part 3: page images at HathiTrust
  • Part 4: page images at HathiTrust
  • Part 5: page images at HathiTrust
  • Part 6: page images at HathiTrust
• The Vanishing American (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), by Zane Grey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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