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• Gösta Berling's Saga (2 volumes; New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, et al., 1918), by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Lillie Tudeer and Velma Swanston Howard
  • Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Seventh Address to Protestants Throughout the World (1854), by Reformed Romanist Priests' Protection Society (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Thirty Years in Hell", or, "From Darkness to Light" (St. Louis: North-American Book House, 1904), by Bernard Fresenborg
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at jesus-is-lord.com

• The Seventh Report of the Reformed Romanist Priests' Protection Society, for the Years 1852 and 1853 (Dublin: G. Drought; London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1854), by Reformed Romanist Priests' Protection Society (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (HTML with commentary at whatsaiththescripture.com)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (sixth edition; Toronto: S. R. Briggs, 1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (New York et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., c1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (15th edition; Chicago: A. Craig, 1888), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (revised and complete edition, with post-mortem appendix; London: Marshall Press, ca. 1899), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (sixth edition; Toronto: S. R. Briggs, 1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (New York et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., c1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (15th edition; Chicago: A. Craig, 1888), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (revised and complete edition, with post-mortem appendix; London: Marshall Press, ca. 1899), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Forty Years in the Church of Christ (Chicago et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., 1900), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (HTML with commentary at whatsaiththescripture.com)

• Pastor Chiniquy: An Examination of His "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome", by Sydney F. Smith (HTML at davidmacd.com)

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

• A Victorian Curate: A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by David N. Yeandle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Life at Threescore and Ten (New York, American Tract Society, c1871), by Albert Barnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Historic Dress of the Clergy (London: W. Andrews and Co., ca. 1897), by Geo. S. Tyack (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware, and Georgia (Lancaster, MA: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1950), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Painted Windows: Studies in Religious Personality, by a Gentleman with a Duster (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922), by Harold Begbie, contrib. by Kirsopp Lake, illust. by Emile Verpilleux (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Death Comes for the Archbishop (c1927), by Willa Cather
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1927), by Willa Cather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the Parish (London and Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1910), by John Galt, illust. by Henry Wright Kerr (Gutenberg text)
• A Cure of Souls (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by May Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Ward, Preacher, by Margaret Deland (Gutenberg text)
• The Parson's Progress (London et al.: Cassell and Co., c1923), by Compton Mackenzie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Perpetual Curate, by Mrs. Oliphant (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Rector of St. Mark's, by Mary Jane Holmes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Seer (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by Perley Poore Sheehan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unleavened Bread (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by Robert Grant
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Vicar of Wakefield (main text from 1903 A. and C. Black edition; illustrations and accompanying essays from various editions), by Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by Louise Hope, contrib. by Joseph Grego, John Forster, and Austin Dobson, illust. by John Massey Wright, Margaret Jameson, and William Mulready (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Vicar of Wrexhill (London: R. Bentley, 1840), by Frances Milton Trollope (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Abbe Mouret's Transgression, by Émile Zola, ed. by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Gutenberg text)
• Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault
  • illustrated HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Foul Play (based on an undated Grolier Society edition, with additional illustrations), by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and George Du Maurier (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• In His Steps, by Charles M. Sheldon
  • HTML at kancoll.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Housman Thomas (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher: A Tale of the War of 1812 (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1880), by W. H. Withrow (Gutenberg text)
• The Preacher of Cedar Mountain: A Tale of the Open Country (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1917), by Ernest Thompson Seton, illust. by Clarence Rowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Prudence Palfrey: A Novel (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874), by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern
• Scenes of Clerical Life, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• The Small House at Allington, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Small House at Allington (2 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1864), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Thomas Wingfold, Curate, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)
• The Vicar of Bullhampton (London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 1870), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by H. Woods (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Picketing Hell: A Fictitious Narrative (New York: W. Malliet and Co., 1942), by A. Clayton Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• The Calling of Dan Matthews, by Harold Bell Wright (Gutenberg text)
• Father Eustace: A Tale of the Jesuits (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1847), by Frances Milton Trollope
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Man As He Is Not: or, Hermsprong (18th volume of a "British Novelists" set; London: F. C. and J. Rivington; et al.. 1810), by Robert Bage, contrib. by Mrs. Barbauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Minister's Wooing (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• The Minister's Wooing (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• The Scandal of Father Brown (1935), by G. K. Chesterton (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Secret of Father Brown (c1927), by G. K. Chesterton
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), by G. K. Chesterton
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family (New York: M. W. Dodd, 1865), by Elizabeth Rundle Charles (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Damnation of Theron Ware, by Harold Frederic (Gutenberg text)
• Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Father Clement: A Roman Catholic Story (8th edition; Edinburgh: W. Oliphant and Son, 1834), by Grace Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Innocence of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
  • HTML at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• The Innocence of Father Brown (New York: The Macaulay Co., c1911), by G. K. Chesterton
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (based on the first editions), by Laurence Sterne, ed. by Günter Jürgensmeier (PDF at gasl.org)
• Prester John, by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (illustrated edition; New York: G. H. Doran Co., n.d.), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illust. by Hugh Thomson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Laurence Sterne
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
• A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900), by Laurence Sterne (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Wisdom of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
  • HTML at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading

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