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• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

• New Year's Day (The 'Seventies) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• False Dawn (The 'Forties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

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

• The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York, by Junius Henri Browne (page images at MOA)
• Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City (c1872), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Darkness and Daylight: or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1893), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Thomas Byrnes, contrib. by Lyman Abbott (page images at Harvard)
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Fashion: or, Life in New York: A Comedy in Five Acts (London: W. Newbery, 1850), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (multiple formats at Google)

• The Princess Daphne: A Novel (Chicago et al.: Belford, Clarke, and Co., 1888), by Edward Heron-Allen and Selina Dolaro
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Von Toodleburgs: or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1868), by F. Colburn Adams, illust. by Alfred R. Waud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Party (originally published as "Babes and Sucklings"; New York: Popular Library, 1929), by Philip Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cousin Paul (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1868), by Jessie Glenn (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (10-story Macmillan edition), by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Empire City: or, New York by Night and Day, Its Aristocracy and Its Dollars (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Bros., c1864), by George Lippard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Greater Inclination, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• High Life in New York (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1873), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hungry Hearts (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Anzia Yezierska (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)
• New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sixty-First Second (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1913), by Owen Johnson, illust. by A. B. Wenzell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Buccaneers (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1938), by Edith Wharton (page images at Michigan)

• Dark Metropolis (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1936), by John Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Duke and His Double (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1903), by Edward S. Van Zile, illust. by Florence Scovel Shinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opus 21: Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age; A Concerto for a One-Man Band; Six Arias for Soap Operas; Fugues, Anthems and Barrelhouse (a novel; New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Co., c1949), by Philip Wylie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Good Sports (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1919), by Olive Higgins Prouty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Woman Gives: A Story of Regeneration (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1916), by Owen Johnson, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)