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• The Return of the Middle Class (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922), by John Corbin (searchable page images at Google; US access only)
• Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise (New York: Workers library publishers, 1935), by Moissaye J. Olgin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Chinese Gentry: Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955), by Zhongli Zhang (page images at HathiTrust)

• Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text and HTML)

• The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660-1730 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Peter Earle (HTML at UC Press)

• The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660-1730 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Peter Earle (HTML at UC Press)

• Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850, ed. by Michel Conan (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• Contes Cruels (in French; Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1889), by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes Cruels (sixth edition, in French; Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1893), by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Michael Seidman (HTML at UC Press)

• Imago (in German; Jena: E. Diederichs, 1907), by Carl Spitteler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Imago (in German; Jena: E. Diederichs, 1907), by Carl Spitteler (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Stark Munro Letters, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)

• Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Michael Seidman (HTML at UC Press)

• False Measure: A Satirical Novel of the Lives and Objectives of Upper Middle-Class Negroes (New York: William-Frederick Press, 1954), by Charles A. Smythwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diary of a Nobody, by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
  • illustrated HTML at pseudopodium.org
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• The Diary of a Nobody (based on the 1892 Arrowsmith edition and the 1888-1889 Punch serial), by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford (Gutenberg text)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (HTML at classicreader.com)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, ed. by Eleanor Marx Aveling (Gutenberg text)
• Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province (2 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1857), by Gustave Flaubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Road to the Open (London: H. Latimer Ltd., 1913), by Arthur Schnitzler, trans. by Horace B. Samuel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Way of All Flesh (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1916), by Samuel Butler, contrib. by William Lyon Phelps and R. A. Streatfeild (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Japan's New Middle Class: The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb (second edition; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), by Ezra F. Vogel (HTML at UC Press)

• Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920, by Akram Fouad Khater (HTML at UC Press)

• American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style (New York and London: New York University Press, c1994), by Peter N. Stearns (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

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

• The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Class Counts (student edition, 2000), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism, and Marxism (1994), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• The Debate on Classes (1989), ed. by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Classes (1985), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Class, Crisis, and the State (1978), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)
• Class Structure and Income Determination (1979), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF at Wisconsin)
• What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (originally published 1883; added introduction dated 1951), by William Graham Sumner, contrib. by William Clinton Mullendore (Gutenberg text)
• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• The Question of Caste (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1869), by Charles Sumner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord, trans. by Fredy Perlman (HTML at nothingness.org)
• The Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord, trans. by Ken Knabb (HTML at bopsecrets.org)

• Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Thomas S. Mullaney, James Leibold, Stéphane Gros, and Eric Vanden Bussche (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
• Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society, by Mao Zedong (HTML at marxists.org)

• Puppets at Large: Scenes and Subjects From Mr. Punch's Show (London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., 1897), by F. Anstey, illust. by Bernard Partridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hairy Ape, by Eugene O'Neill (Gutenberg text)
• Miss Julie: A Play in One Act (London: Hendersons, 1914), by August Strindberg, trans. by Horace B. Samuel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our Mutual Friend: A Comedy, in Four Acts (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879), by Harriette R. Shattuck, contrib. by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pygmalion, by Bernard Shaw
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text

• James Shore's Daughter (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1934), by Stephen Vincent Benét (page images at HathiTrust)
• Castle Richmond, by Anthony Trollope, contrib. by Algar Thorold (Gutenberg text)
• Hania (with other stories; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1897), by Henryk Sienkiewicz, trans. by Jeremiah Curtin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Old Manor House (London: J. Bell, 1793; Reprinted London: Pandora Press, 1987), by Charlotte Smith (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• Marion Fay (3 volumes in 1; London: Chapman and Hall, 1882), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text)
• A Poor Wise Man (New York: Review of Reviews Co., c1920), by Mary Roberts Rinehart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
  • illustrated hypertext at pemberley.com
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text and audio readings
• Pride and Prejudice: A Novel in Two Volumes (third edition; London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817), by Jane Austen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Gutenberg text)
• Sense and Sensibility (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1864), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sense and Sensibility (London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by Jane Austen, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Marcella, by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Phoebe, Junior, by Mrs. Oliphant (Gutenberg text)
• The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations, by James Branch Cabell (Gutenberg text)
• Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (HTML in Japan)
• Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story (with illustrations from the Cornhill and Smith, Elder editions), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, illust. by George Du Maurier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Amazing Years (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by W. Pett Ridge
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Howards End, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• The Landleaguers (3 volumes in 1; London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• North and South, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• The Old Manor House (based on the British Novelists two-volume edition, 1810-1820), by Charlotte Smith, ed. by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Power and the Glory, by Grace MacGowan Cooke, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (Gutenberg text)
• The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel, by W. E. B. Du Bois (Gutenberg text)
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell (Gutenberg text)
• Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (with illustrations by the author; New York: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)

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