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Feats on the fiord (London and New York: G. Routledge, 1875), by Harriet Martineau (page images at Florida)
Feats on the fiord (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1886), by Harriet Martineau, illust. by Edmund Evans (page images at Florida)
The enchanted burro (Chicago: Way and Williams, 1897), by Charles Fletcher Lummis (page images at Florida)
Feats on the fjord (London: J.M. Dent & Company, n.d.), by Harriet Martineau, illust. by Arthur Rackham (page images at Florida)

Filed under: Africa, Central -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

The Story of an African Chief (New York: C. Scribner and Sons, 1935), by Akiki K. Nyabongo, contrib. by William Lyon Phelps, illust. by Eleanor Maroney (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Africa, Southern -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)
Dreams, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: African Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Dialect Tales, by Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt, illust. by Clyde O. DeLand
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), by Charles W. Chesnutt, illust. by Clyde O. DeLand
- illlustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- page images at HathiTrust
The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays (based on an 1899 edition, with some added essays), by Charles W. Chesnutt, ed. by Suzanne Shell (Gutenberg text)
Exploring the black experience in America : short stories and plays (Morgan State Unive[r]sity, 1976), by Lola E. Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tales of darkest America (Published by the Favorite Magazine, 1920), by Fenton Johnson and Favorite Magazine (page images at HathiTrust)
The heart of Happy Hollow (New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904., 1904), by Paul Laurence Dunbar, E. W. Kemble, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
Negro stories. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), by E. K. Means, E. W. Kemble, Knickerbocker Press, and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Possum Creek poultry club (The Franciers' Review, 1895), by J. H. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Alabama -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches, by Johnson Jones Hooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Negotiable ([s.n.], 1908), by Edwin M. Thomas and C. A. Morrisette (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Americans -- Algeria -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Ashes of incense : a novel (Mitchell Kennerley, 1912), by Ruth Cranston, J.J. Little & Ives Company, and Mitchell Kennerley (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Americans -- Social life and customs -- Moral and ethical aspects -- France -- Fiction

Marie of the House d' Anters (Benziger Brothers, 1916), by Michael Earls, Frank McKernan, and Benziger Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Amish -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Sabina : a story of the Amish (The Century Co., 1905), by Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and Century Company (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Andalusia (Spain) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Platero y yo (in Spanish), by Juan Ramón Jiménez (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Angola -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Jamba. (Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947), by Wilfrid D. Hambly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Gena of the Appalachians, by Clarence Monroe Wallin (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Arizona -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1913), by Alfred Henry Lewis, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Wolfville Nights (1902), by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)
A voice in the wilderness : a novel (Harper & Brothers, 1916), by Grace Livingston Hill, Norman Rockwell, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sandburrs, by Alfred Henry Lewis, illust. by George Benjamin Luks and Horace Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Arkansas -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

In Simpkinsville: Character Tales, by Ruth McEnery Stuart (HTML and TEI at UNC)
In Simpkinsville; character tales, by Ruth McEnery Stuart. (Harper & brothers, 1897), by Ruth McEnery Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Arran, Island of (Scotland) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

The McBrides: A Romance of Arran, by John Sillars (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Asia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Stories of the East (Richmond, UK: L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1921), by Leonard Woolf, illust. by Dora de Houghton Carrington
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Tales of The East: Comprising The Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin, and The Best Imitations By European Authors; With New Translations, and Additioal Tales, Never Before Published (3 volumes; Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne and Co., 1812), ed. by Henry Weber (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Asia, Central -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia: Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" (Akron, OH: MacLellan-N-Y-Company, n.d.), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text)
The Special Correspondent: or, The Adventures of Claudius Bombarnac (New York: Lovell, Coryell and Co., c1894), by Jules Verne
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

The End of a Childhood: The Complete Stories of Henry Handel Richardson (1934), by Henry Handel Richardson (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
Bush Studies, by Barbara Baynton
- HTML and PDF at University of Sydney
- text at Gutenberg Australia
House of Music: A Suite of Stories, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)
Keynotes (London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by George Egerton (page images at HathiTrust)
Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories, by A. B. Paterson (Gutenberg text)
Barcaldine (Hurst and Blackett, 1889), by Vere Clavering (page images at HathiTrust)
Australian life (Chapman and Hall, Ld., 1892), by Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
Another woman's territory (T.Y. Crowell & Company, 1901), by Alien, Seymour M. Stone, and Thomas Y. Crowell Company (page images at HathiTrust)
The settlers of Karossa Creek and other stories of Australian bush life (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1912), by Louis Becke (page images at HathiTrust)
A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 3, by Ada Cambridge (Gutenberg ebook)
A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 2, by Ada Cambridge (Gutenberg ebook)
A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 1, by Ada Cambridge (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Austria -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Oesterreich im Jahre 2020 : Socialpolitischer Roman (Piersen, 1893), by Josef von Neupauer (page images at HathiTrust)
Oesterreich im Jahre 2020: Socialpolitischer Roman (in German), by Josef von Neupauer (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Bachelors -- Social life and customs -- Psychology -- Fiction

Rings of smoke (The Electric Press, 1902), by Geneva V. Wolcott and Electric Press (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Balkan Peninsula -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Short Stories From the Balkans (Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1919), trans. by Edna Worthley Underwood (page images at HathiTrust)
Short stories from the Balkans, trans. by Edna Worthley Underwood (Gutenberg ebook)

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