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Books in the Religous genre:

Sunday Under Three Heads (1836)

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Written under the Dickens pseudonym of Timothy Sparks, this pamphlet opposed proposed laws restricting popular entertainment on Sundays. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Timothy Sparks
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne

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Sunday Employment, Sunday Enjoyment for the Young and Good (1859)

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A work intended to make the search after holiness agreeable, rather than tedious. The title page is by Richard Doyle. Read online at Google.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Upcher Cousens
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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A Chaplet of Verses (1862)

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A collection of religious verse. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Adelaide Anne Procter
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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The Visiting Justices and the Troublesome Priest (1868)

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A musical attack on the British treatment of Irish persons incarcerated in British jails. Read online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot: A Country Tale (1884)

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A pleasant story of a young orphan who is taken in as a servant, strives to do well through honesty and hard work, and ultimately succeeds, inheriting his master’s dovecot and doves. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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A Book of Christmas Verse (1895)

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An anthology that begins with St. Ambrose. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Henry Charles Beeching
Various
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)

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One of the first attempts in English to tell the whole story of La Pucelle, the Maid of France. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Frank Vincent Du Mond
Photographs

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Quo Vadis (1897)

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In the last days of the Roman Empire, a pagan soldier sees a beautiful girl and decides he must have her as his concubine. But unknown to him, Ligia is a Christian intent on living a pure life, even as Nero's ruthless persecution sweeps the city. Rea... View More

Author(s): Henryk Sienkiewicz
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

Rejected of Men: A Story of To-day (1903)

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A thought-provoking novel that centers around the themes of rejection, redemption, and the human experience. The book follows the life of a man named John who is shunned by society for his differences and must navigate the harsh realities of prejudic... View More

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

Christian Science (1907)

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A combination of a humorous send-up and a more serious critique of the cult of Mary Baker Eddy. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Photographs

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The Red Book of Heroes (1909)

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Biographies of people who were truly in earnest. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s): A. Wallis Mills

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The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)

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A collection of biographies of saints and heroes. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

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Joan of Arc (1919)

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A classic retelling of the Maid of Orleans' heroism during the Fifteenth Century.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Lucy Foster Madison
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

Saint Joan of Arc (1919)

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This biography of the saint was originally published in Harper’s Magazine in 1904. It comprises the introductory essay and the final chapter of the author’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Wilfred J. Jones
Howard Pyle

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A Wonderful Night (1919)

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A retelling and meditation on the Nativity. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): James Henry Snowden
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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Religion: First Course (1920)

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A textbook of religion for Catholic grammar schools that utilizes the Socratic method. This is apparently the student edition. Read online at Hathitrust. The collection of questions is much longer. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Roderick Aloysius MacEachen
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Christ Story for Boys and Girls (1923)

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The author reads the New Testament in view of his own life as a Palestinian Christian born in 1869. Adapted from his larger work The Syrian Christ. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The Grateful Elephant and Other Stories Translated from the Pali (1923)

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Twenty-six Buddhist parables. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Eugene Watson Burlingame
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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Lilith (1924)

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A story about a journey to the world of the dead.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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The Ten Commandments in the Animal World (1925)

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The author finds that animals respect the natural law.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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