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• The Private World of High Society (New York: D. McKay Co., c1960), by Lucy Kavaler (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Daisy's Aunt (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, c1910), by E. F. Benson (Gutenberg text and illusrated HTML)
• Maailmankaupunki: Romaani ("The Metropolis" in Finnish; 1911), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• The Metropolis, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Democracy: An American Novel, by Henry Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gutenberg text)
• The Beautiful and Damned (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Willis Bardwell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Rahanvaihtajat (The Moneychangers translated into Finnish; 1915), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg text)
• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text

• Bab: A Sub-Deb (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1917), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Evelina (based on the 1903 Macmillan edition, with additional illustrations from other editions), by Fanny Burney, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson, W. Cubitt Cooke, and Arthur Rackham (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World, by Fanny Burney
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

• The Wits and Beaux of Society (New York: Harper and Bros., 1861), by A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and James Godwin (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Wits and Beaux of Society (2 volumes; 1890), by Mrs. A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, ed. by Justin H. McCarthy, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and James Godwin
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Social Register, Buffalo (partial serial archives)

• The Celebrity Persona Pandemic (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), by P. David Marshall (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Jenny Jones: My Story (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Pub., c1997), by Jenny Jones, contrib. by Patsi Bale Cox (PDF at jennyjones.com)

• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)

• Beyond Black: Celebrity and Race in Obama's America (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Ernest Cashmore (HTML at bloomsburycollections.com)

• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)

• Jenny Jones: My Story (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Pub., c1997), by Jenny Jones, contrib. by Patsi Bale Cox (PDF at jennyjones.com)

• A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• River Basin Surveys Papers (partial serial archives)
• Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (looseleaf series from the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1950s), ed. by James B. Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)
• Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
• Hearings, Relating to H.R. 959, Amending the Internal Security Act of 1950 (Obstruction of Armed Forces) (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Bibliography (reprint of all 12 volumes Evans published, covering 1639-1799 (posthumous 13th volume has active copyright); New York: P. Smith, 1941-1942), by Charles Evans (12 volumes, plus 1959 index volume (v14, copyright unrenewed): page images at HathiTrust)

• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
• The Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

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