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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Mopsa the Fairy (1927)
Jack comes to the aid of a fairy who takes him on a wonder voyage.
Author(s):
Jean Ingelow
Illustrator(s):
Dugald Stewart Walker
Mopsa the Fairy (1927)
Jack crawls into a fairy’s nest and is soon off on a fantastic journey.
Author(s):
Jean Ingelow
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Now We Are Six (1927)
More poems featuring Christopher Robin.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
One Wonderful Week (1927)
Bank clerk Harold Altridge enters on a week of cataclysm after cataclysm -- a phantasmagoria of adventure, romance and mystery -- that leaves him half dead and the reader holding his sides with laughter.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Princess and Curdie (1927)
In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie and his beasts restore Irene’s King-Papa to his throne.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Secret of Father Brown (1927)
The fourth 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 Splendid Spur (1927)
A picaresque tale of English civil war.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Through Merrie England (1927)
Daily life in the days of William Shakespeare.
Author(s):
F. L. Stevens
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Tom Cringle’s Log (1927)
This is a sea story of the British Navy in the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. It centers on action and runs pell-mell.
Author(s):
Michael Scott
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
The White Company (1927)
Alleyne Edricson joins The White Company of English mercenaries and serves as squire to Sir Nigel Loring during their campaigns in France and Spain under the Black Prince.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
The Wind in the Willows (1927)
This is the third fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger. It was not published in America.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Wyndham Payne
The Wonderful Week (1927)
Bank clerk Harold Altridge enters on a week of cataclysm after cataclysm -- a phantasmagoria of adventure, romance and mystery -- that leaves him half dead and the reader holding his sides with laughter.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1928)
A moving and tragic account of one man’s suffering.
Author(s):
Oscar Wilde
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Bastable Children (1928)
An omnibus volume containing The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, and The New Treasure Seekers.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Browne
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Boots of the Holly-Tree Inn (1928)
Harry and Norah elope to Gretna Green.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Count Billy (1928)
Young Billy makes good his claim to lands and castles in Spain, but renounces them to win back his self-respect and the love of his friends in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Greville MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The Daughter of the Hawk (1928)
Dawkins has escaped from a convict labor camp on an island in the south seas and returns home to find more than he bargained for.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
The Golden Age (1928)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard