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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Dead Ned (1938)
Condemned to hang for a murder he did not commit, Ned Mansell is revived by his physician friends and smuggled on to a ship bound for Africa.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Escape to Persia (1938)
The Hunterly children bet their aunt they can make their way to the Oxus in twenty-four hours with only thirty shillings. The ponies are glad to see them.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
Jane Eyre (1938)
Jane is abused as a child by her aunt and at school and develops a philosophy of radical self-centeredness. One of the first modern novels.
Author(s):
Charlotte Brontë
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know (1938)
A selection of stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling for younger readers.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Charles Livingston Bull
Kurt Wiese
Et al
The Reluctant Dragon (1938)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
A Ship of the Line (1938)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Rowland Hilder
Ship of the Line (1938)
Given command of the two-decker HMS Sutherland, Hornblower harries the Spanish and French coasts.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Summer Moonshine (1938)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
no first name Fenwick
Swallowdale (1938)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons (1938)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Clifford Webb
Tim and Lucy Go to Sea (1938)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1938)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
Wee Gillis (1938)
Wee Gillis must decide whether to be a Lowlander like his mother and raise long-haired cows or a Highlander like his father and stalk stags. This is the British first edition.
Author(s):
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Wee Gillis (1938)
Author(s):
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Young Brontës: Charlotte and Emily, Branwell and Anne (1938)
A history of the Brontë siblings between 1825 and 1830.
Author(s):
Mary Louise Jarden
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Adventure May be Anywhere (1939)
Four children on a seaside holiday in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Captain Horatio Hornblower (3 volumes) (1939)
This uniform three volume set includes Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colours.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Captain Horatio Hornblower (omnibus) (1939)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Captain Hornblower, R.N. (1939)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
An Experiment with St. George (1939)
St George and the Princess Cleodolinda outwit Circe and her minions and trap them beneath a volcanic eruption.
Author(s):
J. W. Dunne
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky