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• Mr. Prohack, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Cap'n Warren's Wards, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Lamplighter (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, 1854), by Maria S. Cummins
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern

• Tortilla Flat (c1935), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel (new edition; London: Vizetelly and Co., 1887), by Émile Zola, contrib. by George Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tender is the Night (1934), by F. Scott Fitzgerald (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The House of Lynch (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The House of Lynch (5th American edition; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1920), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lake of Gold: A Narrative of the Anglo-American Conquest of Europe (London: F. V. White, 1903), by George Chetwynd Griffith
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Magic Christian (New York: Random House, c1960), by Terry Southern (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cardinal Sin, by Eugène Sue, trans. by Alexina Loranger (Gutenberg text)
• The Pearl (published in magazine form in 1945, and book form in 1947), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Riceyman Steps (c1923), by Arnold Bennett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)
• A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, illust. by John Leech
  • illustrated HTML and PDF at Elegant Ebooks
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• A Christmas Carol (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1911), by Charles Dickens, illust. by A. C. Michael (page images at LOC)
• A Christmas Carol (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1915), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Christmas Carol (New York: Platt and Peck Co., c1905), by Charles Dickens, illust. by George Alfred Williams (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Christmas Carol: The Reading Version (condensed from the original by the author), by Charles Dickens (HTML with commentary in Canada)

• Mr. Prohack, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

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

• What Everyone Should Know About Economics and Prosperity (Canadian adaptation; Vancouver: Fraser Institute, c1993), by James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, and Michael Walker (PDF with commentary at Fraser Institute)
• The Concentration of Wealth: A Study As to Its Causes, Results and Remedies (New York: True Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893), by Albert Chavannes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Distribution of Wealth: A Theory of Wages, Interest and Profits (1908 edition), by John Bates Clark (illustrated HTML at econlib.org)
• Other Worlds: A Story Concerning the Wealth Earned by American Citizens and Showing How it Can be Secured to Them Instead of to the Trusts (Chicago: Lena Jane Fry, 1905), by Lena Jane Fry
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays (New York: Century Co., 1901), by Andrew Carnegie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lawless Wealth: The Origin of Some Great American Fortunes (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1908), by Charles Edward Russell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The People's Progress: A Study of the Facts of National Wealth, With Some Answers to Socialists (London: J. Murray, 1910), by Frank Ireson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Effort, Opportunity, and Wealth, by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)

• Who is the Rich Man that Shall be Saved?, by Clement of Alexandria, trans. by William Wilson (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• History of Canadian Wealth ("Vol. I" only volume published; Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1914), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Plutus of Aristophanes, Translated into English Verse, With an Introduction and Notes (London: J. Murray, 1912), by Aristophanes, ed. by William Rann Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

• The Cottage and the Grange (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1885), by Evelyn Everett-Green
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Princess Idleways: A Fairy Story (New York: Harper, c1879), by Helen Ashe Hays (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twenty Minutes Late (c1893), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Trusteeship, by Mahatma Gandhi, ed. by Ravindra Kelekar (frame-dependent HTML at mkgandhi.org)
• The "Goldfish": Being the Confessions of a Successful Man, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• The New Idolatry and Other Discussions (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1905), by Washington Gladden
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Review of Income and Wealth (partial serial archives)

• Economia e Felicità (in Italian; Milan: Casa editrice F. Vallardi, ca. 1918), by Robert Michels (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer (Washington: Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2016), by Dean Baker (multiple formats with commentary at deanbaker.net)
• The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive (Washington: Center for Economic and Policy Research, c2011), by Dean Baker (multiple formats at cepr.net)
• History of the Great American Fortunes (3 volumes; Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1910), by Gustavus Myers
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, by Dean Baker (multiple formats at deanbaker.net)
• Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our lives, by Sam Pizzigati (PDF files with commentary at greedandgood.org)

• Pricing Decisions in Small Business (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962), by W. Warren Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• International Socialist Congress of Vienna (August 23-29, 1914), Documents, 2nd Commission: The High Cost of Living, by Otto Bauer (PDF at fes.de)
• La Carestia de la Vida (v. 1, no. 5 of Accion Socialista; in Spanish; 1919), by Nicolás Repetto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Relation Of Wages To The Cost Of Living In Los Angeles, 1915 to 1920 (Los Angeles: Southern California Sociological Society, University of Southern California, 1921), by Hazal M. Liggett (page images at Harvard)

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