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• The Guermantes Way (original French published 1920; English translation published 1925), by Marcel Proust, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (text at Gutenberg Australia)

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

• 112 Gripes About the French (Paris: US Occupation Forces Information and Education Division, 1945)
  • partly illustrated HTML at e-rcps.com
  • black and white PDF at marshallfoundation.org

• Explorations and Encounters in French (with articles in English and French; c2010), ed. by F. J. Fornasiero and Colette Mrowa-Hopkins (PDF files with commentary at Adelaide)

• Jean Béraud, 1849-1935, The Belle Époque: A Dream of Times Gone By (Cologne: Taschen, 1999), by Patrick Offenstadt, contrib. by Jean Béraud, Nicole Castais, and Pierre Saurisse (page images at wpi.art)

• La Belle Époque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Philippe Jullian, ed. by Diana Vreeland (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Bliss, and Other Stories, by Katherine Mansfield (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Two or Three Graces, and Other Stories (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1926), by Aldous Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam and Eve and Pinch Me: Tales (12 story collection; Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1921), by A. E. Coppard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Adam and Eve and Pinch Me: Tales (21 story collection; New York: Knopf, 1922), by A. E. Coppard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Paul the Minstrel, and Other Stories, by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
• The Swindler, and Other Stories, by Ethel M. Dell (Gutenberg text)

• Faithful Stranger, and Other Stories (c1938), by Sheila Kaye-Smith (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Black Doctor, and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1925), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Dog, and Other Stories (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1923), by A. E. Coppard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Career of Katherine Bush (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Elinor Glyn, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944 collection), by Virginia Woolf, ed. by Leonard Woolf (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Human Boy and the War (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Eden Phillpotts (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mixed Grill (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Monday or Tuesday (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1921), by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text)
• Monday or Tuesday, by Virginia Woolf
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • text in Australia
• Nineteen Impressions (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1918), by J. D. Beresford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Prussian Officer, and Other Stories (London: Duckworth and Co., 1914), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• Stingaree (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), by E. W. Hornung, illust. by George W. Lambert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Table d'Hôte (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tales of Terror and Mystery, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Amazing Years (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by W. Pett Ridge
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Diamond Cross Mystery: Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story (Cleveland and New York: Press of the Commercial Bookbinding Co., 1918), by Chester K. Steele (Gutenberg text)
• The Middle of the Road: A Novel (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Philip Gibbs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Sorrell and Son (1925), by Warwick Deeping (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance (new and cheaper edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1915), by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Freaks of Mayfair (London et al.: T. N. Foulis, 1916), by E. F. Benson, illust. by George Plank
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Virgin and the Gipsy (1930), by D. H. Lawrence (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Vehnäprinsessa (The Wheat Princess in Finnish; Porvoo: W. Söderström, 1920), by Jean Webster, trans. by Annikki Haahti (Gutenberg text)
• The Wheat Princess (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1916), by Jean Webster
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Time Regained (original French published 1927; English translation published 1931), by Marcel Proust, trans. by Stephen Hudson (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Sweet Cheat Gone (original French published 1925; English translation published 1930), by Marcel Proust, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Captive (original French published 1923; English translation published 1929), by Marcel Proust, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Cities of the Plain (original French published 1922; English translation published 1927), by Marcel Proust, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Clio (London: John Lane; New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922), by Anatole France, trans. by Winifred Stephens Whale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant (10 volumes in 1; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1903), by Guy de Maupassant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Droll Stories, by Honoré de Balzac (Gutenberg text)
• The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche; and Child Life in Town and Country (London and New York: J. Lane, 1919), by Anatole France, trans. by A. R. Allinson
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche: Gutenberg text and selected page images
  • Child Life in Town and Country: Gutenberg text and selected page images
• Original Short Stories (13 volumes), by Guy de Maupassant, trans. by Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, and Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, contrib. by Pol. Louis Neveux (Gutenberg text)
• Sodome et Gomorrhe (in French; c1922), by Marcel Proust
  • Part 1: Gutenberg text
  • Part 2: Gutenberg text
• Valserine, and Other Stories (in English and French; New York: Hodder and Stoughton, G. H. Doran Co., c1912), by Marguerite Audoux
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Soil (La Terre): A Realistic Novel (London: Vizetelly and Co., 1888), by Émile Zola (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dream, by Émile Zola, trans. by Eliza E. Chase (Gutenberg text)

• Isabelle (in French), by André Gide (Gutenberg text)

• Cousin Betty, by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by James Waring (Gutenberg text)
• The Monomaniac (La Bête Humaine) (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1901), by Émile Zola, trans. by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Chambermaid's Diary (New York: B. R. Tucker, 1900), by Octave Mirbeau, trans. by Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (Gutenberg text)
• Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre (in French; Paris: E. Fasquelle, 1915), by Octave Mirbeau (Gutenberg text)
• Poor Relations, by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by James Waring and Ellen Marriage, contrib. by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)

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