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• Our "first families" : a novel of Philadelphia good society / (Boston : J. French, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The notebooks of a spinster lady [electronic resource] : 1878-1903. (London ; Toronto : Cassell, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die oberen Zehntausend. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Europeans : a sketch / (London : Macmillan, 1879), by Henry James and Henry James Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the diseases of people of fashion, in which their causes & effects are investigated and explained; and the most judicious mode of treatment, founded on long and ample experience, recommended: addressed to the gay, the dissipated, the intemperate, and the sedentary of all classes. (London, 1815), by M. Venel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gazette of fashion, and magazine of the fine arts and belle lettres. (London : Published for C.M. Westmacott by Hoffman, and Sams, 1822-), by William Clowes, William. pbl Sams, Hoffman. pbl, and C. M. Westmacott (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the amusements of the aristocracy and of the people / (London : John Longley, [ca. 1835]), by John Arthur Roebuck and Henry S. Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Leben der Vornehmen Englands im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, vornehmlich nach den Dramen Ben Jonsons / (Halle a.S. : [s.n.], 1907), by Johannes Püschel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The conclusion to Bishop Burnet's History of his own time [microform] : containing advice to the people of England. (Dublin : Printed by A. Rhames for T. Moore ..., 1734), by Gilbert Burnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the road : the Central Park, Bloomingdale and Harlem Lane on an indian summer afternoon. ([New York? : s.n., 1861?]), by Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thelma : a society novel / (London : R. Bentley, 1887), by Marie Corelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The annals of the Bohemian club : from its beginning, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to eighteen hundred and eighty [-eighteen hundred and ninety-six] / ([San Francisco : Press of The Hicks-Judd Co., 1898-1909]), by Calif.) Bohemian Club (San Francisco and Robert Howe Fletcher, contrib. by Hicks-Judd Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschlechter Buch : darinn der loblichen kaiserlichẽ Reichs Statt Augspurg so vor fünffhundert vnd mehr Jaren hero, daselbst gewonet, vnd biss auff acht abgestorben auch deren so an der abgestorbnen stat eingenom̃en vnd erhöhet worden seyn : dessgleichen mit was Personen die Röm. Key. May. [et]c. am dritten Augusti im M.D.XLVIIII. Jare ain new Regiment von Raht vnd Gericht auch alle Empter besetzt hat : sampt aines jeden Geschlechts Wapen, Zeichen, Schilt vnd Helm, auch Ankunfft vnd Herkommen : alles mit künstlichen Figuren angezeigt, vnd allen Kunstliebhabern jetzt widerumb an Tag gegeben / (Getruckt zu Franckfort am Mayn [et]c. : In Verlegung Sigmund Feyrabends, 1580), by Paul Hector Mair, Jost Amman, and Christoph Weiditz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fortunes of Miss Follen. (New York, D. Appleton and co., 1876), by Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury Goodwin Talcott and D. Appleton and Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chance acquaintance, (New York, Grosset & Dunlap, [c1901]), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern red / (New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918), by Helen Granville-Barker, Knickerbocker Press. prt, and G.P. Putnam's Sons. pbl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Olden time in New York / (New York : G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1872), by William Ingraham Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gift bearers : a novel / (New York : The Grafton Press Publishers, c1907), by Henry Berman, R. K. Richardson, and Grafton Press. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social register, summer. (New York : Social Register Association, [1891?]-) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mayfair and town topics. (London : Mayfair and Town Topics, Ltd., [19--?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El modo de ser a el caso de la ol (Santiago : Ediciones Aconcagua, [1978]), by Luis Barros Lezaeta and Ximena Vergara Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Industry and false pride : a treatise addressed to Irishmen at home and abroad / (Dublin : Richardson & Son ; New York : Haverty, [between 1857 and 1861]), by Frederick Kearney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British reformer's advocate and political instructor : being an exposition of the privileges, power, and incomes of the British aristocracy, &c, &c / (Edinburgh : A. Black, 1832), by David P. Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• That angelic woman, a story; (New York, Harper & brothers, 1892), by James M. Ludlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pride and prejudice / (London : J. M. Dent & Sons New York : E. P. Dutton, 1922), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The queens of American society / (Philadelphia : Porter & Coates, c1867), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apontamentos para a educacão de hum menino nobre / (Lisboa Occidental : Officina de Joseph Antonio da Sylva, 1734), by Martinho Mendonça de Pina (page images at HathiTrust)
• One night with Nancy / (New York : Diversey Publishing Corporation, 1949), by Wilson Collison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber den Einfluss und die Wirkungen des Zeitgeistes auf die höheren Stände Deutschlandes : als Fortsetzung der Betrachtungen über den Zeitgeist in Deutschland / (Hannover : Bei den Gebrüdern Hahn, 1810), by Ernst Brandes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gosudarstvo i obshchestvo : upravlenie, samoupravlenie i sudebnai͡a vlastʹ. Statʹi. (S.-Peterburg, V Tip. V. Bezobrazova, 1882), by V. P. Bezobrazov (page images at HathiTrust)
• A budapesti társaság. (Budapest : Pallas Részvénytársaság Nyomdája, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanted : a chaperon / (New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902), by Paul Leicester Ford and Howard Chandler Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wife of Sir Isaac Harman / (London : Macmillan, 1914), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanted--a matchmaker / (New York : Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1900), by Paul Leicester Ford and Howard Chandler Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prinz Arenberg und die Arenberge. (Berlin : Expedition der Buchhandlung Vorwärts, 1904), by Sozialdemokratische Agitations-Bibliothek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville) : a memoir, 1700-1788 / (New York : E.P. Dutton ; London : G. Richards, 1900), by George Paston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The aristocrats : being the impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during her sojourn in the Great North Woods as spontaneously recorded in her letters to her friend in North Britain, the Countess of Edge and Ross. (London ; New York : John Lane, 1901), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Vie élégante. ([Paris] : Librairie illustrée, 1882-1883) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Torch-Bearers: A Satirical Comedy in Three Acts, by George Kelly, contrib. by Kenneth Macgowan (Gutenberg ebook)

• Heroick education, or Choice maximes and instructions, for the most sure and facile training up of youth, in the ways of eminent learning, and vertues.: A treatise very necessary for all men; but most especially for such as undertake the charge, to govern the young nobility and gentry. In two books, together with a short appendix. / By I.B. Gent. (London : Printed for William Hope, at the blew Anchor, behind the Old Exchange, and Henry Herringman, at the blew Anchor in the lower walk in the New Exchange, 1657), by Gent I. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Judgment of Paris (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1952), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Became of Anna Bolton (c1944), by Louis Bromfield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Black Oxen (with stills from the screen version; New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1923), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Californians, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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• Maailmankaupunki: Romaani ("The Metropolis" in Finnish; 1911), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• The Metropolis, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• A Chance Acquaintance (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Flaming Youth (published under "Warner Fabian" pseudonym; New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Innocence (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1920), by Edith Wharton
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• The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• A Tale of Red Roses (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1914), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cabala, by Thornton Wilder (Gutenberg ebook)
• Au temps de l'innocence (in French), by Edith Wharton, trans. by Madeleine Marie Louise Chevrillon Saint-René Taillandier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Metsäsissi: Kuvaus Amerikan Lännestä (in Finnish), by Gabriel Ferry, trans. by Kaarlo Riukuniemi (Gutenberg ebook)
• Une rencontre: roman de deux touristes sur le Saint-Laurent et le Saguenay (in French), by William Dean Howells, trans. by Louis Honoré Fréchette (Gutenberg ebook)
• Isabel Clarendon, Vol. 2 (of 2), by George Gissing (Gutenberg ebook)
• Isabel Clarendon, Vol. 1 (of 2), by George Gissing (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Three Fates, by F. Marion Crawford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Katherine Lauderdale; Vol. 2 of 2, by F. Marion Crawford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Katherine Lauderdale; Vol. 1 of 2, by F. Marion Crawford (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Relentless City, by E. F. Benson (Gutenberg ebook)

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