City and town life -- Fiction books

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Middlemarch is a didactic work of fiction that weaves together the ordinary rhythms of English town and…

Ulysses

James Joyce

James Joyce’s Ulysses is a densely layered work of literary fiction that foregrounds city and town life,…

The Daughter of Anderson Crow

George Barr McCutcheon

The Daughter of Anderson Crow is a slice‑of‑life novel set in a small New York State town, where the everyday…

The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Sinclair Lewis

The book is a comic‑looking slice of early‑20th‑century Midwestern life, set in the fictional towns of…

In Our Town

William Allen White

In *In Our Town* William Allen White offers a satirical portrait of a typical American country community,…

A Village of Vagabonds

F. Berkeley Smith

The novel is a French‑set adventure of an American who abandons his comfortable farm in the market town of…

From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience

Horatio Alger, Jr.

From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience is a nineteenth‑century American novel that pits…

Friendship Village

Zona Gale

Friendship Village is a collection of short stories that paints a portrait of small‑town life in…

Flip's "Islands of Providence"

Annie F. Johnston

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life

Sherwood Anderson

Venus in Boston: A Romance of City Life

George Thompson

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Louisa May Alcott

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

Chronicles of Avonlea

L. M. Montgomery

Further Chronicles of Avonlea

L. M. Montgomery

The Wrong Twin

Harry Leon Wilson

Round the Block: An American Novel

John Bell Bouton

T. Tembarom

Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Woman's War: A Novel

Warwick Deeping

A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete

William Dean Howells

The Turmoil: A Novel

Booth Tarkington

The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Arnold Bennett