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• 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)
• An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Amazing Years (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by W. Pett Ridge
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)

• Le Cabinet du Roy de France, Dans Lequel il y a Trois Perles Precieuses d'Inestimable Valeur (in French, anonymously published but often attributed to Barnaud; 1581), by Nicolas Barnaud
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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