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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Doctor Dolittle’s Zoo (1925)
In these adventures the good Doctor solves a mystery and opens a zoo in his back garden.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
Five of Us – and Madeline (1925)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Sam in the Suburbs (1925)
Sam Shotter falls in love with a picture in an English weekly magazine tacked up on the wall of a log cabin in Canada. When he finds himself living next door to her in Valley Fields he doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
Sam the Sudden (1925)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Marston
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1925)
The Indian Prince calling himself Captain Nemo prowls beneath the sea seeking his revenge.
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
William James Aylward
Where the Blue Begins (1925)
A satire on the author George Gissing in which all the parts are played by dogs. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Christopher Morley
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Clever Bill (1926)
Soldier Bill Davis is left behind in Mary’s rush to be off to visit her aunt, but he manages to find a way to get to the train station ahead of her.
Author(s):
William Nicholson
Illustrator(s):
William Nicholson
The Cruise of the Cachalot (1926)
Author(s):
Frank Bullen
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan (1926)
Doctor Dolittle’s Circus travels to London where they stage a bird opera.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
Emma (1926)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Everybody’s Pepys (1926)
Author(s):
Samuel Pepys
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Five of Us -- and Madeline (1926)
A typical Nesbit family saga plus two fairy tales.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
He Rather Enjoyed It (1926)
A collection of ten short stories about Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, that self absorbed promoter of the impossible.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Heart of a Goof (1926)
Nine short stories about golf narrated by the Oldest Member.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Holly Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1926)
Four short tales by Dickens including The Holly-tree, The Seven Poor Travellers, The Poor Relation’s Story, and The Haunted House.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926)
The third collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest who is considered one of the high spots of detective fiction.
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Light Princess (1926)
A collection of fairy tales including the story of a princess who loses her gravity.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Mansfield Park (1926)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1926)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
ODTAA (1926)
Highworth Foliat Ridden’s father sends him out to Santa Barbara on the Spanish Main to see what he can make of himself.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
E. G. Perman