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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Flying Colours (1939)
While on his way under guard from Spain to Paris to be tried by Napoleon, Hornblower makes his escape and joins the resistance.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Flying Colours (1939)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Rowland Hilder
Flying Colours including Ship of the Line (1939)
While on his way under guard from Spain to Paris to be tried by Napoleon, Hornblower makes his escape and joins the resistance. This special book club edition includes Ship of the Line as well.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
Great Expectations (1939)
Young Pip finds he has a patron - but who?
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Local (1939)
A series of sketches of life in prewar London pubs.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
My Uncle Silas (1939)
The reminiscences of a country rapscallion.
Author(s):
H. E. Bates
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Oxus in Summer (1939)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
Secret Water (1939)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
The Ship that Flew (1939)
Peter buys a model ship from an antique store for “all the money he has in the world -- and a little bit more” and discovers it can carry its owners through space and time.
Author(s):
Hilda Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Nora Lavrin
The Sister of the Angels (1939)
A story about Henrietta, Hugh Anthony, Torminster Cathedral and Christmas.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Trouble for Lucia (1939)
Author(s):
E. F. Benson
Illustrator(s):
None
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
no first name Fenwick
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Peggy Bacon
The Week-End Wodehouse (1939)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Herbert F. Roese
Week-End Wodehouse (1939)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
no first name Kerr
The African Queen (1940)
In Central Africa of 1914, Rose Sayer buries her brother then sets out on a boat called the African Queen for the adventure of a lifetime. This edition restores the author’s original ending.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
The Big Six (1940)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
The Bounty Trilogy (1940)
An omnibus edition of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn’s Island.
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The comical tragedy or tragical comedy of Punch & Judy (1940)
A selection from the traditional British commedia dell’arte.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
John Payne Collier
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard
Cue for Treason (1940)
Author(s):
Geoffrey Trease
Illustrator(s):
Zena Flax