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Asa Holmes: or, At the Cross-Roads (Boston: L. C. Page, 1902), by Annie F. Johnston, illust. by E. Fosbery (illustrated HTML at Indiana)
Belforest: A Tale of English Country Life (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1865), by Anne Manning
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
The Devil's Pool, by George Sand, trans. by George Burnham Ives, illust. by Edmond Adolphe Rudaux (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Devil's Pool, by George Sand, trans. by Jane Minot Sedgwick and Ellery Sedgwick, illust. by Eugène-Michel-Joseph Abot (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Devil's Pool, by George Sand, contrib. by Benjamin W. Wells and Matthew Arnold (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford (Gutenberg text)
Pegeen (New York: The Century Co., 1915), by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd (page images at HathiTrust)
Pegeen (London: Grant Richards, 1918), by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd (multiple formats at archive.org)
They and I (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1909), by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
They and I (text based on 1909 Hutchinson edition; frontispiece from 1909 Dodd Mead edition), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by E. A. Poucher (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
Ursula: A Tale of Country Life (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton, 1858), by Elizabeth Missing Sewell
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Village Belles (3 volumes; London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1833), by Anne Manning
- Volume I: multiple formats at Google
- Volume II: multiple formats at Google
- Volume III: multiple formats at Google
Village Belles: A Tale of English Country Life (revised single-volume edition; London: Printed for R. Bentley, 1859), by Anne Manning (multiple formats at Google)
Winter Evening Tales, Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland (2 volumes; 1820), by James Hogg
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Aunt Sara's Wooden God (College Park, MD: McGrath Pub. Co, c1938), by Mercedes Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
August Folly (c1936), by Angela Thirkell (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Black Forest Village Stories (author's edition; New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Berthold Auerbach, trans. by Charles Goepp
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at Google
Dream Days (New York and London: John Lane, 1898), by Kenneth Grahame (HTML at Virginia)
Dream Days (Thomas Nelson and Sons edition, ca. 1900), by Kenneth Grahame (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame
- HTML at Virginia
- HTML at kellscraft.com
The Golden Age (with black and white illustrations; London and New York: J. Lane, c1904), by Kenneth Grahame, illust. by Maxfield Parrish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Knocknagow: or, The Homes of Tipperary (based on the 1887 "cheap edition"), by Charles Joseph Kickham (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)
The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text)
Sämtliche Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (10 volumes in 5, in German; Stuttgart: Cotta, 1884), by Berthold Auerbach
- Volumes 1 and 2: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volumes 3 and 4: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volumes 5 and 6: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volumes 7 and 8: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volumes 9 and 10: multiple formats at archive.org
The Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
A Country Doctor, and Selected Stories and Sketches, by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
The Golden Arrow, by Mary Webb (PDF at encyclopaedia.com)
The Country of the Pointed Firs (21-chapter version), by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
The Country of the Pointed Firs (24-chapter version, 1910), by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Bartleby)
The making of a country home (Doubleday Page and Co., 1901), by A. C. Wheeler, Charles Edward Hooper, Norwood Press, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
Kit and Kitty : a story of West Middlesex (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1890), by R. D. Blackmore (page images at HathiTrust)
White heather : a novel (Macmillan and Co., 1885), by William Black (page images at HathiTrust)
A country doctor (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884), by Sarah Orne Jewett, Sarah Whitman, and Radcliffe College. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
The country of the pointed firs (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896), by Sarah Orne Jewett and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Weir of Hermiston : an unfinished romance (Chatto and Windus, 1896), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Sidney Colvin (page images at HathiTrust)
The Hoosier schoolmaster. (Orange Judd Company, 1892), by Edward Eggleston and Scott Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
The old Peabody pew : a Christmas romance of a country church (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Alice Barber Stephens, May A. Peabody, and Mass.) University Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
Seffy, a little comedy of country manners (A.L. Burt, 1905), by John Luther Long (page images at HathiTrust)
The old Peabody pew : a Christmas romance of a country church (Grosset & Dunlap, 1907), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (page images at HathiTrust)
Country fireman (William Morrow, 1948), by Jerrold Beim and Leonard W. Shortall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Briseis (Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1896), by William Black (page images at HathiTrust)
A doctor of the old school (Dodd, Mead, 1895), by Ian Maclaren, F. C. Gordon, and Frederick C. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
The golden age (Stone & Kimball;, 1896), by Kenneth Grahame, Stone and Kimball Collection (Library of Congress), and Stone & Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
Fishpingle; a romance of the countryside (George H. Doran Company, 1917), by Horace Annesley Vachell (page images at HathiTrust)
Doctor Danny (Harper & Brothers, 1918), by Ruth Sawyer and J. Scott Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The wooing of Sheila (H. Holt, 1901), by Grace Little Rhys (page images at HathiTrust)
Aunt Jane of Kentucky (Little, Brown, 1908), by Eliza Calvert Hall and Beulah Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
Abbé Constantine (G.P. Putnam 's Sons, 1882), by Ludovic Halévy and Emily H. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)
A winter of content (The Abingdon press, 1922), by Laura Lee Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
Clarence : or, A tale of our own times (G.P. Putnam; [etc., etc.], 1849), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
The Golden age (Dodd, Mead, 1922), by Kenneth Grahame and Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
William Henry and his friends (D. Lothrop, 1871), by Abby Morton Diaz (page images at HathiTrust)
Uncle Frank's home stories (E.O. Libby & Co., 1858), by Francis C. Woodworth (page images at HathiTrust)
Colonel Quaritch, V.C. : a tale of country life (Longmans, Green, 1888), by H. Rider Haggard (page images at HathiTrust)
Fishpingle a romance of the countryside (McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1917), by Horace Annesley Vachell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Weir of Hermiston : the plays ; fables. (Scribner, 1896), by Robert Louis Stevenson and William Ernest Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
Bonaventure; a prose pastoral of Acadian Louisiana. (Scribner, 1899), by George Washington Cable, Bruce Rogers, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
Uncle Zeb and his friends. (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), by Edward W. Frentz (page images at HathiTrust)
St. Ronan's well. (A. & C. Black;, 1897), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
Middleway; tales of a New England village (Copeland and Day, 1897), by Kate Whiting Patch (page images at HathiTrust)
Dorfleute : Dorfgeschichten deutscher Meistererzahler (B. Behr, 1917), by Hermann Sudermann and Wilhelm Hochgreve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Uncle Ben's experience with hypocrites. (Thomas & Thomas, 1899), by John Smith Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
Miller of Angibault (Roberts Brothers, 1887), by George Sand (page images at HathiTrust)
Rupertsweiler Leut (in German), by Harriet Straub (Gutenberg ebook)
Ingleside; $b or, Without Christ and with Him, by Madeline Leslie (Gutenberg ebook)
François the waif, by George Sand, trans. by Jane Minot Sedgwick, illust. by Eugène-Michel-Joseph Abot (Gutenberg ebook)
Stepping Westward, by M. E. Francis (Gutenberg ebook)
Priscilla of the Good Intent: A Romance of the Grey Fells, by Halliwell Sutcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
The Bagpipers, by George Sand, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, illust. by Louis Meynell (Gutenberg ebook)
Barren Ground, by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (Gutenberg ebook)
Pastorals of Dorset, by M. E. Francis, illust. by Claud C. Du Pré Cooper (Gutenberg ebook)
The Sheep-Stealers, by Violet Jacob (Gutenberg ebook)
Minerva's Manoeuvres: The Cheerful Facts of a "Return to Nature", by Charles Battell Loomis, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (Gutenberg ebook)
Gambolling with Galatea: a Bucolic Romance, by Curtis Dunham, illust. by Oliver Herford (Gutenberg ebook)
The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame, illust. by R. J. E. Moony (Gutenberg ebook)
Making Over Martha, by Julie M. Lippmann (Gutenberg ebook)
Country Luck, by John Habberton (Gutenberg ebook)
The Stickit Minister's Wooing, and Other Galloway Stories, by S. R. Crockett (Gutenberg ebook)
The Abandoned Farmer, by Sydney Herman Preston (Gutenberg ebook)
Die Judenbuche (in German), by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, illust. by Max Unold (Gutenberg ebook)
Aunt Jimmy's Will, by Mabel Osgood Wright, illust. by Florence Scovel Shinn (Gutenberg ebook)
Narcissa, or the Road to Rome; In Verona, by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (Gutenberg ebook)
The Shepherd's Calendar. Volume I (of II), by James Hogg (Gutenberg ebook)
Dream Days, by Kenneth Grahame, illust. by Maxfield Parrish (Gutenberg ebook)
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 19, by Lloyd Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg ebook)
Stubble, by George Looms (Gutenberg ebook)
Summerfield: or, Life on a Farm, by Day Kellogg Lee (Gutenberg ebook)
The Hoosier School-boy, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg ebook)
St. Ronan's Well, by Walter Scott (Gutenberg ebook)
The Path of Duty, and Other Stories, by Harriet S. Caswell (Gutenberg ebook)
The peasant and the prince (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1885), by Harriet Martineau (page images at Florida)
The peasant and the prince (London et al.: George Routledge and Sons, 1875), by Harriet Martineau, illust. by Francis Arthur Fraser and Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
Feats on the fiord (London and New York: G. Routledge, 1875), by Harriet Martineau (page images at Florida)
Feats on the fiord (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1886), by Harriet Martineau, illust. by Edmund Evans (page images at Florida)
Feats on the fjord (London: J.M. Dent & Company, n.d.), by Harriet Martineau, illust. by Arthur Rackham (page images at Florida)

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