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• The Bank Director's Son: A Real and Intensely Interesting Revelation of City Life (Philadelphia: E.E. Barclay and A.R. Orton, 1852), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• A Full and Complete Account of the Late Awful Riots in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J. B. Perry, et al., ca. 1844) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Full Particulars of the Late Riots, With a View of the Burning of the Catholic Churches, St. Michaels and St. Augustines (Philadelphia: Pub. at 23 N. Second St., ca. 1844) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Truth Unveiled: or, A Calm and Impartial Exposition of the Origin and Immediate Cause of the Terrible Riots in Philadelphia on May 6th, 7th, and 8th, A.D. 1844 (Philadelphia: M. Fithian, 1844), by Protestant and native Philadelphian
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Origin and Progress of the American Party in Politics: Embracing a Complete History of the Philadelphia Riots in May and July, 1844; With a Full Description of the Great American Procession of July Fourth, and a Refutation of the Arguments Founded on the Charges of Religious Proscription and Secret Combinations (Philadelphia: Elliott and Gihon, 1855), by John Hancock Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Street Talk About an Ordinance of Councils Passed the 11th July, 1844, Organizing a Military Force for the Government of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1844) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial for Riot Before the Mayor's Court of Philadelphia, on the 13th of October, 1831, Arising Out of a Protestant Procession on the 12th of July, and in Which the Contending Parties Were Protestants and Roman Catholics (Philadelphia: J. Harding, 1831), by Henry Darley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Trial of Frank Kelly for the Assassination and Murder of Octavius V. Catto, on October 10, 1871: Also, An Account of the Murders of Levi Bolden, Isaac Chase and Jacob Gordon; A Full Account of the Wounds Inflicted Upon Henry Lewis, George West, John Fawcett, Charles Johnson, John Harkness, James Chippey and Others (Philadelphia: Daily Tribune Pub. Co., ca. 1877), ed. by Henry H. Griffin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial for Riot Before the Mayor's Court of Philadelphia, on the 13th of October, 1831, Arising Out of a Protestant Procession on the 12th of July, and in Which the Contending Parties Were Protestants and Roman Catholics (Philadelphia: J. Harding, 1831), by Henry Darley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cheap Jack Zita (fourth edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1896), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Carbonels, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• The Marrow of Tradition (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), by Charles W. Chesnutt
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Riot (Chicago: Chicago Labor Printing Co., ca. 1922), by W. E. Trautmann and Peter Hagboldt (page images at HathiTrust)

• 13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale (2007), by David Wellington (HTML with commentary at archive.org)
• Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1870), by Bayard Taylor (page images at MOA)
• The Millionaire: A Novel, by Frank Cowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Coast of Bohemia (biographical edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The White Rocks: or, The Robbers' Den: A Tragedy of the Mountains (Philadelphia: Keystone Pub. Co., 1890), by A. F. Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The White Rocks: or, The Robbers' Den: A Tragedy of the Mountains (Morgantown: Morgantown Printing and Binding Co., 1915), by A. F. Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tillie, a Mennonite Maid: A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch, by Helen Reimensnyder Martin (Gutenberg text)

• The Scouts of the Valley, by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text)

• Arthur Mervyn: or, Memoirs of the Year 1793, by Charles Brockden Brown (Gutenberg text)
• Paul Ardenheim, the Monk of Wissahikon (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1848), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Quaker City: or, The Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime (Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart and Company, c1876), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Heads of Cerberus (originally published 1919), by Francis Stevens (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• Ormond (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1937), by Charles Brockden Brown, ed. by Ernest Marchand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bank Director's Son: A Real and Intensely Interesting Revelation of City Life (Philadelphia: E.E. Barclay and A.R. Orton, 1852), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1890), by Amanda M. Douglas (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Paul Ardenheim, the Monk of Wissahikon (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1848), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Rose of Wissahikon, or, The Fourth of July, 1776: A Romance Embracing the Secret History of the Declaration of Independence (Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber and Co., 1847), by George Lippard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Scouts of the Valley, by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text)

• There is Confusion (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bank Director's Son: A Real and Intensely Interesting Revelation of City Life (Philadelphia: E.E. Barclay and A.R. Orton, 1852), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)

• Tillie, a Mennonite Maid: A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch, by Helen Reimensnyder Martin (Gutenberg text)

• Tillie, a Mennonite Maid: A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch, by Helen Reimensnyder Martin (Gutenberg text)

• The Case of Jennie Brice (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1913), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by M. Leone Bracker (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Dora Livingstone, the Adulteress: or, The Quaker City (London: G. Purkess, 1848), by George Lippard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Falken aus der Falken-Höhle: Eine Geschichte aus Pennsylvanien (The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow in German; Frankfurt am Main: J. D. Sauerlander, 1840), by Robert Montgomery Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow: A Tradition of Pennsylvania (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835), by Robert Montgomery Bird
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia

• An American Story-Book: Short Stories from Studies of Life in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pathetic, Tragic, Humorous, and Grotesque (1881), by Frank Cowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Old Chester Secret (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1920), by Margaret Deland, illust. by F. Walter Taylor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Betrothal of Elypholate, and Other Tales of the Pennsylvania Dutch (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by Helen Reimensnyder Martin, illust. by Charlotte Harding and Alice Barber Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Susquehanna Legends: Collected in Central Pennsylvania (Reading, PA: Bright Printing Co., 1913), by Henry W. Shoemaker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Fighting Doctor (New York: The Century Co., 1912), by Helen Reimensnyder Martin
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Thing in the Woods (London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Margery Williams Bianco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Thing in the Woods (US edition published under "Harper Williams" pseudonym; New York: R. McBride and Co., 1924), by Margery Williams Bianco (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Thing in the Woods (London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Margery Williams Bianco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Thing in the Woods (US edition published under "Harper Williams" pseudonym; New York: R. McBride and Co., 1924), by Margery Williams Bianco (page images at HathiTrust)

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