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• Muslin (new edition, 1915), by George Moore (Gutenberg text)

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• Imagining the Future City: London 2062 (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), ed. by Sarah Bell and James Paskins (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• Augusta Triumphans: or, The Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe (second edition, published under "Andrew Moreton" pseudonym; London: Printed for J. Roberts, ca. 1729), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Labour of the People in London, First Series: Poverty (4 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1904), ed. by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Second Series: Industry (5 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (Classification of the People, Building Trades, Wood and Metal Workers): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Precious Metals, Watches, Instruments, Paper and Printing Trades, Textiles, and Sundry Manufactures): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Dress, Food, Drink, Dealers, Clerks, Locomotion and Labour): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Public, Professional and Domestic Service; Unoccupied Classes; Inmates of Institutions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (Comparisons, Survey and Conclusions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (some US access only): page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Third Series: Religious Influences (7 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (London North of the Thames: The Outer Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (London North of the Thames: The Inner Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (The City of London and the West End): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Inner South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (South-East and South-West London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (Outer South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (Summary): multiple formats at archive.org
• Life in West London: A Study and a Contrast, by Arthur Sherwell (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• The Million-Peopled City: or, One-Half of the People of London Made Known to the Other Half (1853), by John Garwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Seven Curses of London, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Life in the London Streets (1881), by Richard Rowe (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Low-Life Deeps: An Account of the Strange Fish to be Found There (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1881), by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Unsentimental Journeys, or, Byways of the Modern Babylon, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Wilds of London (London: Chatto and Windus, 1874), by James Greenwood, illust. by Alfred Concanen (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org
• Ragged London in 1861 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861), by John Hollingshead (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• An Utopian Dream, and How It May Be Realized (London: K. Paul, Trench and Co., 1888), by Anna Swanwick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hell Upon Earth, or, The Town in an Uproar: Occasion'd by the Late Horrible Scenes of Forgery, Perjury, Street-Robbery, Murder, Sodomy, and Other Shocking Impieties (London: Printed for J. Roberts and A. Dodd, 1729) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Golden Notebook (originally published 1962; with extensive online discussion from 2008 and 2009), by Doris Lessing (HTML with commentary at thegoldennotebook.org)
• All Hallows' Eve (1945), by Charles Williams (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Last Men in London (c1932), by Olaf Stapledon (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• 253 (electronic edition), by Geoff Ryman (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Aladdin of London: or, Lodestar (New York: Empire Book Co., c1907), by Max Pemberton, illust. by Frank Parker (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Big Bow Mystery (c1895), by Israel Zangwill
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bones in London, by Edgar Wallace
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• "Erb" (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Henry (4 volumes; London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1795), by Richard Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hushed Up! A Mystery of London (London: E. Nash, 1911), by William Le Queux (Gutenberg text)
• Life in London: or, The Pitfalls of a Great City (1890), by Edwin Hodder (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The London Venture (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1920), by Michael Arlen, illust. by Michel Sevier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Love at Paddington (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, c1912), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Marriage (New York: Duffield and Co., 1912), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The Merry-Go-Round (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1904), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)
• The Mysteries of the Court of London (8 volumes; London: J. Dicks, 1852-1864), by George W. M. Reynolds
  • Volumes 1 and 2 (first series): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 3 and 4 (second series): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 5 and 6 (third series): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 7 and 8 (fourth series): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Nine of Hearts: A Novel (Harper's Handy Series #107; 1886), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Storm of London: A Social Rhapsody (published as by "F. Dickberry"; seventh edition; London: J. Long, c1904), by Marie Blaze de Bury (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Three Impostors, by Arthur Machen (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• When William Came, by Saki (Gutenberg text)
• Winnie O'Wynn and the Wolves (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1922), by Bertram Atkey, illust. by Leslie L. Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Jacob Street Mystery (1942), by R. Austin Freeman (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Mr. Polton Explains (1940), by R. Austin Freeman (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• For the Defence, Dr. Thorndyke (1934), by R. Austin Freeman (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• When Rogues Fall Out (1932), by R. Austin Freeman (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Pontifex Son and Thorndyke (1931), by R. Austin Freeman (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• A Certain Dr. Thorndyke (c1927), by R. Austin Freeman
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Belinda (from the 1857 Tales and Novels collection), by Maria Edgeworth (Gutenberg text)
• The Belovéd Vagabond (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1905), by William John Locke (Gutenberg text)
• The Belovéd Vagabond (New York and London: J. Lane, c1906), by William John Locke
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (PDF at gasl.org)
• Can You Forgive Her?, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and E. Taylor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Children of the Ghetto (based on the third edition; 1914), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)
• A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, illust. by John Leech
  • illustrated HTML and PDF at Elegant Ebooks
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• A Christmas Carol (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1911), by Charles Dickens, illust. by A. C. Michael (page images at LOC)
• A Christmas Carol (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1915), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Christmas Carol (New York: Platt and Peck Co., c1905), by Charles Dickens, illust. by George Alfred Williams (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Christmas Carol: The Reading Version (condensed from the original by the author), by Charles Dickens (HTML with commentary in Canada)
• Doktoro Jekyll kaj Sinjoro Hyde (in Esperanto; London: British Esperanto Association, ca. 1909), by Robert Louis Stevenson, trans. by William Morrison and William W. Mann (Gutenberg text)
• The Doom of London, by Fred M. White, illust. by Warwick Goble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Emmanuel Burden, Merchant of Thames St. in the City of London, Exporter of Hardware: A Record of His Lineage, Speculations, Last Days, and Death, by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Willis Bardwell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Eye of Osiris: A Detective Story (New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1911), by R. Austin Freeman (Gutenberg text)
• The Eye of Osiris: A Detective Story (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1911), by R. Austin Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fanny Hill, by John Cleland (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Hindenburg's March into London, Being a Translation From the German Original (London: John Long, 1916), by Paul Georg Münch, ed. by L. G. Redmond-Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hole in the Wall (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1903), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies (New York and London: Macmillan, 1909), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• L'Oeuvre de John Cleland: Mémoires de Fanny Hill, Femme De Plaisir, Avec des Documents Sur La Vie à Londres au XVIIIe Siècle (in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des curieux, 1910), by John Cleland, contrib. by Guillaume Apollinaire, illust. by William Hogarth (page images at Gallica)
• Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure ("Fanny Hill") (based on the "Bibliophiles" edition published by C. Carrington, with a few plates missing, 1894 or 1902), by John Cleland, illust. by Martin van Maele (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition From the Original Text (London, 1749) (Paris: I. Lisieux, n. d.), by John Cleland (Gutenberg text)
• Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Phineas Finn, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Prime Minister, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Red Thumb Mark, by R. Austin Freeman (Gutenberg text)
• The Regent: A Five Towns Story of Adventure in London, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Reuben Sachs: A Sketch (London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1889), by Amy Levy
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Rogues and Vagabonds (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1892), by George R. Sims (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Swirling Waters (second edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Max Rittenberg (Gutenberg text)
• The World's Finger: An Improbable Story (London et al.: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1901), by Thomas W. Hanshew
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only?
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prelude to a Certain Midnight (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1947), by Gerald Kersh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stoneware Monkey (1938), by R. Austin Freeman (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Dancers in Mourning (c1937), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Look to the Lady (c1931), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Crimson Circle (version may date from 1925; US copyright claimed in 1929), by Edgar Wallace (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Kif: An Unvarnished History (c1929), by Gordon Daviot (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Man in the Queue (c1929), by Josephine Tey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• As a Thief in the Night (1928), by R. Austin Freeman (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Lucia in London (1927), by E. F. Benson
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• An American Girl in London (Toronto: Williamson, 1891), by Sara Jeannette Duncan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Beetle: A Mystery, by Richard Marsh (Gutenberg text)
• Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Child of the Jago (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1897), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Child of the Jago (New York: Duffield and Co., 1906), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Henrietta Temple: A Love Story, by Benjamin Disraeli (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• John Thorndyke's Cases, by R. Austin Freeman, illust. by H. M. Brock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• John Thorndyke's Cases (London: Chatto and Windus, 1916), by R. Austin Freeman, illust. by H. M. Brock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kun Nukkuja Herää (When the Sleeper Wakes in Finnish; 1907), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Jalmari Finne (Gutenberg text)
• The Last Tenant (New York: F. M. Lupton Pub. Co., c1893), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Google
• Lilian (London et al.: Cassell and Co., c1922), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• "My Merry Rockhurst" (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Mysterious Disappearance (published under "Gordon Holmes" pseudonym; New York: E. J. Clode, 1905), by Louis Tracy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mystery of 31 New Inn, by R. Austin Freeman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• New Grub Street, by George Gissing
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Phineas Redux, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Frank Holl (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• Robinson Crusoe's Return: Funny Adventures and Mishaps of the Immortal Old Historical Character Who Sails Away From His Desert Island on a Raft and Encounters the Strange Men, Women and Manners of Modern London Life (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1906), by Barry Pain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Singing Bone (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1912), by R. Austin Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of "When the Sleeper Wakes", by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of "When the Sleeper Wakes" (London: T. Nelson and Sons, ca. 1910), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Lionel Grimston Fawkes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• When the Sleeper Wakes, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• When the Sleeper Wakes (London and New York: Harper and Bros., 1899), by H. G. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Second Floor Mystery: Photoplay Title of The Agony Column (with illustrations from the Warner Bros. film; bound also with Fifty Candles; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1930), by Earl Derr Biggers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Agony Column, by Earl Derr Biggers (Gutenberg text)
• Alexander's Bridge, by Willa Cather
  • HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• Basil, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• The Duke's Children, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Green Carnation, by Robert Hichens
  • PDF at In Parentheses
  • Gutenberg text
• The House of Lynch (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The House of Lynch (5th American edition; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1920), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Marriage (Edinburgh edition; 1881), by Susan Ferrier (Gutenberg text)
• Marriage: A Novel (second edition, 3 volumes; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; London: J. Murray, 1819), by Susan Ferrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moll Flanders (translated into French), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Marcel Schwob (Gutenberg text)
• The Time of Roses (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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