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Books in the Adventure genre:

Kim (1901)

Kim O’Hara grows up unsupervised in British India and is recruited into the secret service. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): John Lockwood Kipling

Kim (1901)

Kim O’Hara grows up unsupervised in British India and is recruited into the secret service. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): John Lockwood Kipling

Lives of the Hunted (1901)

The life-stories of five wild animals. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

The Master Key (1901)

When Rob strikes the Master Key, the demon of electricity appears to ply him with wondrous electrical inventions. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Fanny Y. Cory

The Arkansaw Bear (1902)

Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

The Book of Romance (1902)

A collection of romances, chiefly from the Arthurian cycle. Read online at archive.org.

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

Indian Boyhood (1902)

Born a Souix Indian, the author describes his first fifteen years of traditional upbringing. In later life he became a physician and one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Brains and Bravery (1903)

A collection of fourteen tales of young men exhibiting brains and bravery. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): G. A. Henty
L. T. Meade
Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Enchanted Island of Yew (1903)

When a fairy takes on the form of a mortal prince for a year, she has many adventures among the people of the Island of Yew. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Fanny Y. Cory

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903)

The first of four volumes in Howard Pyle’s history of The Matter of Britain - that is the story of King Arthur. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

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

Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned (1903)

This story of two boys who ‘took to the woods’ and lived as Indians for a summer was written by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts and much of it found its way into the Boy Scout Handbook. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

The Admirable Tinker (1904)

Disowned by his stepmother Sir Tancred and his son, Tinker, live by their wits. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Margaret Eckerson

The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)

In the London of 1984, Adam Wayne takes up his sword to halt the construction of a bypass through his London district of Notting Hill. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Graham Robertson

The Peradventures of Private Pagett (1904)

Humorous misadventures of a member of His Britannic Majesty’s navy and army. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Major W. P. Drury
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Where Flies the Flag (1904)

A collection of British adventure stories.

Author(s): Henry Harbour
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Four In Camp (1905)

The story of four boys at summer camp in the White Mountains.

Author(s): Ralph Henry Barbour
Illustrator(s): Charles M. Relyea

The Red Romance Book (1905)

A selection of stories from the old epics and some newer tales such as Don Quixote. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

Smouldering Fires (1905)

A story of the eruption of Mount Pelee on May 8, 1902 on the Island of Martinique in the French Antilles which killed more than 30,000 people.

Author(s): Evelyn Everett-Green
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (1905)

This is the second volume in Howard Pyle’s four volume work on the Matter of Britain - the story of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. This volume includes stories of Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram and Sir Percival. Read online at Hat... View More

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

Tinker Two: The Further Adventures of the Admirable Tinker (1906)

The Admirable Tinker, along with his adoptive sister Elsie and the Laddy Noggs, Peeress has further surprising adventures. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): None

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