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Books in the Adventure genre:

“Captains Courageous” A Story of the Grand Banks (1897)

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Harvey Cheyne falls overboard from his liner on the Grand Banks and is picked up by a cod fisherman who proceeds to make a man of him. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): I. W. Taber

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Charles O’Malley The Irish Dragoon (1897)

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A story of the Peninsular War replete with humorous characters, boisterous fun and martial adventure. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Charles Lever
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898)

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Tales selected from The Thousand Nights and a Night. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

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The Arkansaw Bear (1898)

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Runaway Bocephus meets Horatio the fiddle-playing bear in the woods and teaches him the rest of his song as they take to the road. This is the first edition, identified by a misprint of T for B at the start of chapter 2. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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The Castle Inn (1898)

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A “Regency Romance” albeit set in the eighteenth century. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Stanley J. Weyman
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq (1898)

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A romance of the early eighteenth century in Thackeray’s best style. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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The Monkey That Would Not Kill (1898)

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A collection of stories about a monkey that could not be killed -- shot, hanged, thrown into the sea with a stone around his neck, blown up with dynamite -- but not killed. Read online at Hathitrust. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Henry Drummond
Illustrator(s): Louis Wain

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Rupert of Hentzau (1898)

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Rudolph Rassendyll is called on to impersonate the King of Ruritania once more in this sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Anthony Hope
Illustrator(s): Charles Dana Gibson

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Wild Animals I Have Known (1898)

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Eight animal histories taken from life. The author’s purpose was to attempt to persuade the reader that wild things are worth preserving. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

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

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Boy Life on the Prairie (1899)

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An account of growing up on an Iowa farm shortly after the Civil War. Considered by many the author’s best work and one of the outstanding accounts of growing up in the Midwest in the nineteenth century. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hamlin Garland
Illustrator(s): Edwin Willard Deming

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Feats on the Fjord (1899)

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An adventure story set in Norway. The scan is of the second edition with the illustrations colored in. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Harriet Martineau
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899)

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A collection of stories about animals, mainly true. Read online at archive.org.

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

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The River Syndicate and Other Stories (1899)

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Seven detective stories by the master of comic verse. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s): Harry C. Edwards

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The Trail of the Sandhill Stag (1899)

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A further adventure of Yan, this time in pursuit of deer. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

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

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The Biography of a Grizzly (1900)

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The biography of a grizzly bear. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

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

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Gulliver’s Travels (1900)

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A satirical look at human society through the lens of midgets, giants and horses. Read for free online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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A Woman Tenderfoot (1900)

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A young woman goes camping in the mountain West. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Et al

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

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Whirled away on a cyclone, Dorothy is set down in the Land of Oz and must find her way home with the help of the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and a pair of ruby slippers. Read for free online at the Library of Congress. For a faster download go to: Hathit... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

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The Argonauts of the Amazon (1901)

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Three friends procure a steam launch to search the upper reaches of the Amazon for the Inca’s treasure. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): C. R. Kenyon
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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First Across the Continent (1901)

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The first popular account of the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1804 to 1806.

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