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Books in the British genre:

The House of Arden (1908)

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Edred and Elfrida travel into the past to search for the lost treasure of the House of Arden and succeed in finding their lost father. Read online at Gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908)

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An undercover London policeman is recruited into an Anarchist council only to discover most of his fellow anarchists are also undercover agents. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): None

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Meggie: A Day-Dream (1908)

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A collection of short sentimental essays about an orphan girl and her aunt and grandmother.

Author(s): Victoria F. C. Percy
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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The Princess and Curdie (1908)

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In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie and his beasts restore Irene’s King-Papa to his throne. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

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Runaways and Castaways (1908)

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A selection of stories of adventure from well known authors. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Anonymous
F. Anstey
Charles Dickens
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Bret Harte
Charles Kingsley
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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The Story of Little Black Sambo (1908)

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This Volume II from Reilly & Lee's 'The Children's Own Books' series includes Little Black Sambo and The Story of Topsy. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Helen Bannerman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Sunday Reading for the Young (1908)

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This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Et al

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The Wind in the Willows (1908)

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Mole goes out on a fine spring day and meets the water rat by the riverside. Before he knows it he is wrapped up in the doings of the river dwellers, including the notorious Toad. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Graham Robertson

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Harding’s Luck (1909)

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Dickie is a lame child living in a slum, but in the past he is an Arden of noble birth and wealth. Cousin to Edred and Elfida of The House of Arden, he proves to be the true heir to the family titles. When the family treasure is discovered he returns... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography (1909)

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Twain here points out the surprising lack of evidence that the man Shakespeare actually wrote the plays that were published under his name. He favors the Bacon hypothesis rather than the Oxford. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

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Love Among the Chickens; A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)

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Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge makes his first appearance in this novel. He persuades his friend Jeremy Garnet, an Old Wrykynian, to join him and his wife in a chicken ranch. Jeremy meets Phyllis Derrick on the train to Lyme Regis and sets out to ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Armand Both

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Mike: A Public School Story (1909)

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Mike Jackson wins his first XI colors at Wrykyn in his first year, as set forth in the first part of the serialization of this novel ‘Jackson Junior,’ but two years later his father rusticates him to Sedleigh due to his poor marks. It is ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

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Mr. Punch’s Pageant (1909)

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This is the catalog to an exhibition celebrating the London Charivari. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
Et al

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Our Own Story Book (1909)

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An anthology containing at least one story by E. Nesbit.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Et al
Illustrator(s): Sybil Tawse
Et al

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The Rainbow Book (1909)

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A collection of mostly fairy stories. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Mrs. M. H. Spielmann
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Harry Rountree
Hugh Thomson
Et al

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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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Robinson Crusoe (1909)

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The first of the desert island castaway adventures. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Rosebud and Other Tales (1909)

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Six original tales.

Author(s): Arthur Kelly
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England (1909)

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While everyone is on August holiday, England’s enemies take the opportunity to invade her. Only Clarence and his Boy Scout troop stand in their way. Wodehouse later adapted this short novel to America as The Military Invasion of America, A Rema... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): C. Harrison

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These Little Ones (1909)

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Ten stories, intended for adults by the noted children's fantasy author. Read online here.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Gerald Spencer Pryse

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