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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)
A baker’s dozen of the Master’s best, including Ukridge and Bingo Little among others.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Happy Ever After (1940)
A Mary Poppins story which was later included in Mary Poppins Opens the Door.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Lassie Come-Home (1940)
When Joe’s father loses his job, Lassie is sold, but she refuses to stay and comes home across the length of England.
Author(s):
Eric Knight
Illustrator(s):
Marguerite Kirmse
Love in the Sun (1940)
A young man and his wife rough it on the Cornish coast as he works on his novel.
Author(s):
Leo Walmsley
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Oxus in Summer (1940)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
When Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy refuses to dance with her Elizabeth Bennett is confirmed in her prejudice that he is filled with pride. On further acquaintance she is forced to revise her opinion.
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Quick Service (1940)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Quick Service (1940)
J.B. Duff, proprietor of the Paramount Ham wants the portrait of his old flame for an advertisement. Plenty of people fall all over themselves trying to steal it for him and a couple of them end up falling in love.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Donald McKay
The Road to Bordeaux (1940)
An account of the evacuation of casualties of the fighting in northern France through Bordeaux.
Author(s):
Douglas Cooper
Denis Freeman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Secret Water (1940)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Arthur Ransome
Smoky House (1940)
An exciting story about dogs and donkeys and smugglers.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
Smoky-House (1940)
An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Wind in the Willows (1940)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Wind in the Willows (1940)
While lacking four of the sixteen color illustrations in the Limited Editions Club version, this reprint includes pen and ink chapter heads not in the limited edition.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Wodehouse on Golf (1940)
This collection includes Golf without Tears, Divots, ‘The Medicine Girl’ from The Crime Wave at Blandings and three stories from Young Men in Spats.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Herbert F. Roese
Adventures of Dudley and Gilderoy (1941)
A nonsense story in which a parrot and a cat travel to London and back home again.
Author(s):
Algernon Blackwood
Marion B. Cothren
Illustrator(s):
Rojan
Auntie Robbo (1941)
Author(s):
Ann Scott Moncrieff
Illustrator(s):
Christopher Brooker
Baggage to the Enemy (1941)
An account of the war artist’s escape during the debacle of June 1940.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Barnaby Rudge (1941)
A tale of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty