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• Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued; To Which is Prefixed Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Sterne (2 volumes in 1; also includes Sterne's "Political Romance"; London: Printed for the Georgian Society, 1902), by John Hall-Stevenson and Laurence Sterne (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Persian Letters (English translation; London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1891), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, ed. by John Davidson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued; To Which is Prefixed Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Sterne (2 volumes in 1; also includes Sterne's "Political Romance"; London: Printed for the Georgian Society, 1902), by John Hall-Stevenson and Laurence Sterne (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century, by Georgette Heyer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century (1921 Houghton Mifflin edition, with added illustrations), by Georgette Heyer (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth (London: Payne, Cadell and Davies, 1796), by Fanny Burney (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Female Quixote: or, The Adventures of Arabella, by Charlotte Lennox (multiple formats with commentary at girlebooks.com)
• The Female Quixote: or, The Adventures of Arabella (second edition, 2 volumes; London: A. Millar, 1752), by Charlotte Lennox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of Arabella (text from an 1810 edition and illustrations from a 1799 edition), by Charlotte Lennox, ed. by Mrs. Barbauld, illust. by Richard Corbould and Thomas Kirk (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The History of Sir Charles Grandison, in a Series of Letters (7 volumes; London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington et al., 1820), by Samuel Richardson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
• Kamilla: oder, ein Gemälde der Jugend (4 volumes translated into German; Berlin and Stettin: F. Nicolai, 1798), by Fanny Burney, contrib. by Johann Reinhold Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of a Coxcomb (London: The Fortune Press, ca. 1926), by John Cleland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle (third edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1789), by Charlotte Smith
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google
• Love and Friendship and Other Early Works, by Jane Austen (Gutenberg text)
• Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen (London: Holden and Hardingham, 1913), by Sybil G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)
• Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Monsieur Beaucaire (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1900), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by C. D. Williams (multiple formats at Indiana)

• The String of Pearls (from the original 1846-7 penny dreadful), by Thomas Peckett Prest (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Casa Braccio (2 volumes in 1; New York and London: Macmillan, 1895), by F. Marion Crawford, illust. by J. André Castaigne (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Cavallerìa Rusticana; and Other Tales of Sicilian Peasant Life (London: T. F. Unwin, 1893), by Giovanni Verga and Alma Strettell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cavalleria Rusticana ed Altre Novelle (in Italian; Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1892), by Giovanni Verga (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Rome Souterraine (new edition, in French; Paris: C. Gosselin, 1843), by Charles Didier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story (London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Katharine Wylde
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Little Novels of Sicily (translation of "Novelle Rusticane"; New York: T. Seltzer, 1925), by Giovanni Verga, trans. by D. H. Lawrence (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Novelle Rusticane (second edition, in Italian; Torino: F. Casanova, ca. 1885), by Giovanni Verga
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Charterhouse of Parma (this English translation 1925), by Stendhal, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Chartreuse of Parma (New York: D. Appleton and Co., c1901), by Stendhal, trans. by Mary Loyd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chartreuse of Parma (London: W. Heinemann, 1904), by Stendhal, trans. by Mary Loyd, contrib. by Maurice Hewlett, illust. by Paul Avril (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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