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• Basset: A Village Chronicle (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, illust. by C. M. Burd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norwood: or, Village Life in New England (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1868), by Henry Ward Beecher
  • HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford (Gutenberg text)
• Pembroke, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
  • HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Abbe Mouret's Transgression, by Émile Zola, ed. by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Gutenberg text)
• Black Forest Village Stories (author's edition; New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Berthold Auerbach, trans. by Charles Goepp
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Google
• Cranford, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, illust. by C. E. Brock
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at victorian-studies.net
• A Fair Barbarian, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text)
• Miss Bunting (c1945), by Angela Thirkell (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Sämtliche Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (10 volumes in 5, in German; Stuttgart: Cotta, 1884), by Berthold Auerbach
  • Volumes 1 and 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 3 and 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 5 and 6: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 7 and 8: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 9 and 10: multiple formats at archive.org

• Tales of the Fish Patrol (London: W. Heinemann, 1914), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Tales of the Fish Patrol (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Jack London, illust. by George Varian (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Watter's Mou' (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Bram Stoker
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • text and PDF at bramstoker.org

• The Wonderful Visit (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1895), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wonderful Visit (London and New York: Macmillan, 1895), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)

• Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (Gutenberg text)
• Within a Budding Grove (original French published 1918; English translation published 1924), by Marcel Proust, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

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

• English Villages (London: Methuen and Co., 1901), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)

• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1920 edition), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (HTML at McMaster)

• The Carpenter's Family: A Sketch of Village Life (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d.), by Ruth Lamb (multiple formats at Google)

• Ten and a Kid (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, c1961), by Sadie Rose Weilerstein, illust. by Janina Domanska (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lourmarin in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of a French Village (originally published 1971; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Thomas F. Sheppard (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Blue Nets and Red Sails (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1936), by Helen Bradley Preston, illust. by Margaret Temple Braley (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages, by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Paromita Sanyal and Vijayendra Rao (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies #11; 1984), by Robert C. Marshall (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Village Law of the State of New York, As Enacted by the Legislature of 1897 (New York and Albany, NY: Banks and Bros., 1897), by New York (State), ed. by Amasa J. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Deserted Village (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, n.d.), by Oliver Goldsmith, illust. by Hammatt Billings
  • illustrated HTML at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Bang Chan: Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1978), by Lauriston Sharp and Lucien M. Hanks
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF and Epub at Cornell Open

• Turkish Village (c1994), by Paul Stirling (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 (c2008), by Willeen G. Keough (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• An Act in a Backwater (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1903), by E. F. Benson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Believing Years (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Testing Fire (New York: H. K. Fly Co., c1911), by Alexander Corkey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.