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• Mountain life -- Tennessee -- Fiction

• The Summer People (c1989), by John Foster West (PDF and EPub with commentary at appstate.edu)
• Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life (1929), by Thomas Wolfe (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Heart of the Blue Ridge (New York: W.J. Watt and Co., c1915), by Waldron Baily, illust. by Douglas Duer (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, by John Fox (Gutenberg text)
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1903), by John Fox, illust. by F. C. Yohn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1912), by Mary Noailles Murfree, illust. by Douglas Duer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain (first edition, 1892), by Shepherd Monroe Dugger (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Bushwhackers and Other Stories (Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1899), by Mary Noailles Murfree (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Call of the Cumberlands, by Charles Neville Buck (Gutenberg text)
• The Heart of the Hills, by John Fox (Gutenberg text)
• Altowan: or, Incidents of Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1846), by William Drummond Stewart, ed. by J. Watson Webb
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Christmas Eve on Lonesome, and Other Stories, by John Fox, illust. by F. C. Yohn, Arthur Ignatius Keller, W. A. Rogers, and H. C. Ransom (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Cumberland Vendetta, by John Fox (Gutenberg text)
• The Frontiersmen, by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg text)
• "Hell fer Sartain" and Other Stories, by John Fox (Gutenberg text)
• In the "Stranger People's" Country (New York: Harper and Bros., 1891), by Mary Noailles Murfree (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg text)
• The Raid of the Guerilla, and Other Stories (collection of 10 stories; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1912), by Mary Noailles Murfree, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton and Remington Schuyler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), by Mary Noailles Murfree, illust. by Malcolm Fraser (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Only When They're Little: The Story of an Appalachian Family (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1985), by Kate Pickens Day, ed. by Nancy Carol Joyner (PDF at appstate.edu)

• The Durket Sperrett (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1898), by Sarah Barnwell Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• In the Tennessee Mountains, by Mary Noailles Murfree (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Mary Noailles Murfree (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• In the Clouds (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1887), by Mary Noailles Murfree (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In the Tennessee Mountains, by Mary Noailles Murfree (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Mary Noailles Murfree (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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

• Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga (c1993), by Jock Lauterer, contrib. by Maggie Lauterer (PDF at appstate.edu)
• Cabin: A Mountain Adventure (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1986), by Barbara G. Hallowell, illust. by Aline Hansens (multiple formats at appstate.edu)

• Just David, by Eleanor H. Porter (Gutenberg text)

• Rescue Dog of the High Pass (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1958), by Jim Kjelgaard, illust. by Edward Shenton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Heidi, by Johanna Spyri
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Heidi, by Johanna Spyri, illust. by Jessie Willcox Smith (illustrated HTML at CMU)
• Heidi (gift edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1919), by Johanna Spyri, trans. by Elisabeth P. Stork, contrib. by Charles Wharton Stork, illust. by Maria Louise Kirk (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Brindle Mule: Stories and Poems of the Brushy Mountains (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1983), by Robert Rosborough Leeper (multiple formats at appstate.edu)
• In the Catskills: Selections From the Writings of John Burroughs (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910), by John Burroughs, illust. by Clifton Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga (c1993), by Jock Lauterer, contrib. by Maggie Lauterer (PDF at appstate.edu)

• Liza's Monday and Other Poems (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1986), by Bettie M. Sellers (multiple formats at appstate.edu)

• Asa Holmes: or, At the Cross-Roads (Boston: L. C. Page, 1902), by Annie F. Johnston, illust. by E. Fosbery (illustrated HTML at Indiana)
• Belforest: A Tale of English Country Life (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1865), by Anne Manning
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Devil's Pool, by George Sand, trans. by George Burnham Ives, illust. by Edmond Adolphe Rudaux (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading)
• The Devil's Pool, by George Sand, trans. by Jane Minot Sedgwick and Ellery Sedgwick, illust. by Eugène-Michel-Joseph Abot (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Devil's Pool, by George Sand, contrib. by Benjamin W. Wells and Matthew Arnold (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford (Gutenberg text)
• Pegeen (New York: The Century Co., 1915), by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pegeen (London: Grant Richards, 1918), by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• They and I (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1909), by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
• They and I (text based on 1909 Hutchinson edition; frontispiece from 1909 Dodd Mead edition), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by E. A. Poucher (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Ursula: A Tale of Country Life (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton, 1858), by Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Village Belles (3 volumes; London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1833), by Anne Manning
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
• Village Belles: A Tale of English Country Life (revised single-volume edition; London: Printed for R. Bentley, 1859), by Anne Manning (multiple formats at Google)
• Winter Evening Tales, Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland (2 volumes; 1820), by James Hogg
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Aunt Sara's Wooden God (College Park, MD: McGrath Pub. Co, c1938), by Mercedes Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• August Folly (c1936), by Angela Thirkell (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Black Forest Village Stories (author's edition; New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Berthold Auerbach, trans. by Charles Goepp
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Google
• Dream Days (New York and London: John Lane, 1898), by Kenneth Grahame (HTML at Virginia)
• Dream Days (Thomas Nelson and Sons edition, ca. 1900), by Kenneth Grahame (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at kellscraft.com
• The Golden Age (with black and white illustrations; London and New York: J. Lane, c1904), by Kenneth Grahame, illust. by Maxfield Parrish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Knocknagow: or, The Homes of Tipperary (based on the 1887 "cheap edition"), by Charles Joseph Kickham (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)
• The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text)
• Sämtliche Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (10 volumes in 5, in German; Stuttgart: Cotta, 1884), by Berthold Auerbach
  • Volumes 1 and 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 3 and 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 5 and 6: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 7 and 8: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 9 and 10: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• A Country Doctor, and Selected Stories and Sketches, by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Arrow, by Mary Webb (PDF at encyclopaedia.com)
• The Last September (New York: L. MacVeagh; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929), by Elizabeth Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (21-chapter version), by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (24-chapter version, 1910), by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Bartleby)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.