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• The Partisan Leader, by Beverley Tucker (multiple editions)
• Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (multiple editions)
• The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow, by S. Weir Mitchell (Gutenberg text)
• The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow (New York: The Century Co., 1900), by S. Weir Mitchell, illust. by A. J. Keller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Captain Jinks, Hero, by Ernest Crosby, illust. by Daniel Carter Beard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Illustrations of Political Economy (third edition, 9 volumes; London: Charles Fox, 1832), by Harriet Martineau (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills, by Ralph Connor (Gutenberg text)
• Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marcella, by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• Caesar's Column (Caesars Soile): En Beretning fra det Tyvende Aarhundrede (in Norwegian; Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., 1892), by Ignatius Donnelly (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., c1890), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Caesars Kolonn: En Berattelse fran Tjugonde Arhundradet (in Swedish; Chicago: Swedish Book Co., 1891), by Ignatius Donnelly, trans. by Jakob Bonggren
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Manhattan Transfer (first edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1925), by John Dos Passos (multiple formats at Google)
• The Power and the Glory, by Grace MacGowan Cooke, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (Gutenberg text)

• Dear Faustina (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1897), by Rhoda Broughton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Edith Heron: or, The Earl and the Countess (ca. 1862), by James Malcolm Rymer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edith the Captive: or, The Robbers of Epping Forest, by James Malcolm Rymer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Worldlings (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Neil Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Worldlings (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Neil Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Mysteries of Modern London (London: C. A. Pearson Ltd., 1906), by George R. Sims, illust. by Steven Spurrier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; Spurrier illustration omitted
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ada, the Betrayed: or, The Murder at the Old Smithy (as serialized in Lloyd's Penny Weekly Miscellany, 1843), by James Malcolm Rymer (Gutenberg text)

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

• Smoke Signals: Selected Writing (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2016), by Simon Chapman (PDF with commentary in Australia)
• The Long Road (Washington: National Home Library Foundation, 1936), by Arthur E. Morgan, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems (c2013), by Gabriele Bammer (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Social Adjustment (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1930), by Robert Cloutman Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Outline of Sanity (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1927), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• As We Are and As We May Be (London: Chatto and Windus, 1903), by Walter Besant (Gutenberg text)
• Colloquies on Society, by Robert Southey, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Consideratons on Some Recent Social Theories (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853), by Charles Eliot Norton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Crowds: A Moving-Picture of Democracy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1913), by Gerald Stanley Lee
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., 1915), ed. by Upton Sinclair (HTML at Bartleby)
• Die Begründung des Prinzips der Sozialreform: Eine Literarhistorische Untersuchung über Manchestertum und Katherdersozialismus (in German; Jena: G. Fischer, 1914), by Hans Gehrig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Efficient Democracy (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by William H. Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters (1914), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The False Assumptions of "Democracy" (London: Heath, Cranton, 1921), by Anthony M. Ludovici (HTML at anthonymludovici.com)
• Latter-Day Pamphlets, ed. by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg text)
• Les Cabales et Conspirations de la Politique et des Politiciens Laïques et Religieux, Organisées Contre les Patrons et Ouvriers du Travail National (second edition, in French; Paris: The author, 1882), by J.-P. Mazaroz
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mankind in the Making, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• Man's Birthright (New York: Desmond FitzGerald, c1911), by Ritter Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Optimism (London and New York: J. Lane; Toronoto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by H. De Vere Stacpoole (Gutenberg text)
• Past and Present (New York: W. H. Colyer, 1843), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Past and Present (with an appreciation by Emerson published in 1843), by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg text)
• A Paying Investment (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1876), by Anna E. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Problem of Civilization Solved (Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1895), by Mary Elizabeth Lease (illustrated HTML at NIU)
• Problems of Humanity, by Alice Bailey (HTML at lucistrust.org)
• The Return of the Middle Class (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922), by John Corbin (searchable page images at Google; US access only)
• Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• The Social Science of the Constitution of Society: or, The Cause and Cure of Its Present Evils (London: Effingham Wilson, et al., 1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (c1920), by Stephen Leacock
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• War of the Classes (New York: Regent Press, c1905), by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• What to Do?, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Gutenberg text)
• What's Wrong With the World, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
• Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel (New York: The Century Co., 1917), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• "World Corporation" (Boston: New England News Co., c1910), by King C. Gillette (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New World Order: Whether It is Attainable, How It Can Be Attained, and What Sort of World a World at Peace Will Have to Be (1940), by H. G. Wells (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• American Choices: Social Dilemmas and Public Policy Since 1960 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), ed. by Robert H. Bremner, Gary W. Reichard, and Richard J. Hopkins (PDF at Ohio State)
• Philosophy and the Social Problem (second edition; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928), by Will Durant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Myth of the Individual (New York: John Day Co., 1927), by Charles Wesley Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Augusta Triumphans: or, The Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe (second edition, published under "Andrew Moreton" pseudonym; London: Printed for J. Roberts, ca. 1729), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• The British Revolution and the American Democracy: An Interpretation of British Labour Programmes (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century: A Prospective History (second edition; London: F. L. Balin, 1897), by Henry Lazarus (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hampden in the Nineteenth Century: or, Colloquies on the Errors and Improvement of Society (2 volumes; London: E. Moxon, 1831), by John Minter Morgan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Hints Toward Reforms, in Lectures, Addresses, and Other Writings, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
• The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion (third edition; San Francisco: Press of E. D. Beattie, c1900), by William Simpson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Philosophy and the Social Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Will Durant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Religion of Revolution, by Herbert S. Bigelow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Revolt of Democracy (main text only; introductory bio omitted), by Alfred Russel Wallace (HTML at wku.edu)
• Sin and Society: An Analysis of Latter-Day Iniquity (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907), by Edward Alsworth Ross, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Slavery of Our Times, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Aylmer Maude (HTML at cyberspacei.com)
• Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: The Unbridgeable Chasm, by Murray Bookchin (HTML at theanarchistlibrary.org)
• Sociology and Modern Social Problems, by Charles A. Ellwood (Gutenberg text)
• Towards the Great Peace (1922), by Ralph Adams Cram (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• What Are We to Do With Our Lives? (1931), by H. G. Wells (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Acquisitive Society (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1920), by R. H. Tawney (page images at Michigan)
• The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform, by James Harvey Robinson (Gutenberg text)
• The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1921), by James Harvey Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Social Forces in England and America (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1914), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Work and Wealth: A Human Valuation, by J. A. Hobson (HTML at McMaster)
• Modern Industry in Relation to the Family, Health, Education, Morality (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), by Florence Kelley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Decalogue of Science (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1923), by Albert Edward Wiggam
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Problems in American Democracy, by Thames Williamson (Gutenberg text)
• Problems in American Democracy (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1922), by Thames Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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