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Books in the British genre:

Jill the Reckless (1921)

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Jill loses her money and her fiance, goes to America, makes some money, invests it in a play that fails, Wally Mason, who has loved her since she was a child, fixes it and she has a successful play and a husband. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Kate Greenaway Pictures (1921)

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A collection of previously unpublished pictures. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): H. M. Cundall
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

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Kidnapped (1921)

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When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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Love Among the Chickens: Revised (1921)

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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): Unknown

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The Magic Fishbone (1921)

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The story of the Princess Alicia and her fairy godmother Grandmarina and a certain salmon bone, to say nothing of her eighteen brothers and sisters. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Robinson Crusoe (1921)

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First published is 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Most rece... View More

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): Frederick Alfred Rhead
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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Treasure Island (1921)

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When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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The Adventures of Sally (1922)

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Sally Nicholas is a popular young woman who lives in a boarding house in New York and works as a taxi dancer. Upon reaching her twenty-first birthday, she inherits a considerable fortune. Sally tries to adjust to her new life, but financial and roman... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Billy Barnicoat (1922)

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Billy is the sole survivor of a Spanish ship that is wrecked off the coast of Cornwall. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

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

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The Broom Fairies and Other Stories (1922)

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A collection of eight new fairy tales. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Ethel May Gate
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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Captain Blood His Odyssey (1922)

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Doctor Peter Blood is taken up in the aftermath of Monmouth’s Rebellion in 1685 and transported as a convict-slave to Barbados. Based on a true story the book tells of his transformation into the dread pirate Captain Blood. Read online at Hathi... View More

Author(s): Rafael Sabatini
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes (1922)

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A collection of eight nursery rhymes with pictures. Read online at archive.org. Or at wikisource.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

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Children of Ancient Britain (1922)

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A reconstruction of how children lived in prehistoric Britain. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Louise Lamprey
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922)

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A collection of golf stories told by the Oldest Member. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Down-Adown-Derry (1922)

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A book of fairy poems. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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Dream Days (1922)

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Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of reminiscences of childhood include his story The Reluctant Dragon. This is the second illustrated edition and was published only in Britain. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

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The Girl on the Boat (1922)

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Wilhermina ‘Billie’ Bennett is on her way to England. On the boat are three suitors - who will be victorious? Read online at Gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Headswoman (1922)

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Jeanne is the hereditary holder of the office of headsman and succeeds to the office with the death of her father. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Marcia Lane Foster

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Ivanhoe (1922)

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A story of the contest between the Normans and the old Saxon nobility of England. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Sir Walter Scott
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922)

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A collection of mystery short stories. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): W. Hatherell

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