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Books in the Essays genre:

My Village (1896)

An American artist in France writes of the inhabitants of the small village of Valombre. The essays seem somewhat mean-spirited. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897)

A collection of eight essays, including Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

Sporting Society or Sporting Chat and Sporting Memories (1897)

A two-volume work with some of Randolph Caldecott’s illustrations in each volume. Read online at HathiTrust: Volume 1 and Volume 2.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

Pagan Papers (1898)

This second and all subsequent editions contains only the eighteen essays, none of the Golden Age stories. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): None

Somebody’s Luggage (1898)

This was the Christmas number of “All the Year Round” for 1862. Dickens wrote several of the pieces.

The Uncommercial Traveller (1898)

This is the Gadshill edition of sketches written during the author’s nighttime walks through London and contains one additional story not in the third edition. This American edition contains thirty-five essays. Read online at archive.org. Here ... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Harry Furniss

Wild Animals I Have Known (1898)

Eight animal histories taken from life. The author’s purpose was to attempt to persuade the reader that wild things are worth preserving. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

English as She Is Taught (1900)

This is a reprint of a review of English as She Is Taught by Caroline B. Le Row, first published in 1887. Twain’s work first appeared in England in 1887. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1900)

This is Volume XXII of the Works. It includes sixteen essays, one of which is a biographical sketch by the author’s nephew. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900)

A collection of fifteen stories and essays. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

Sunday Reading for the Young (1900)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Et al

The Works of Charles Dickens (1900)

This thirty volume American collected edition was in print for many years and can usually be bought very inexpensively. The illustrations are not the originals and are uncredited.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

Lives of the Hunted (1901)

The life-stories of five wild animals. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Mysteries of Police and Crime (1901)

A three-volume compendium of crime stories. Read for free online: Volume 1 at Internet Archive Volume 2 at HathiTrust Volume 3 at HathiTrust ... View More

Author(s): Major Arthur Griffiths
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
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Sunday Reading for the Young (1901)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Et al

To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)

A pamphlet condemning imperialist powers at the turn of the twentieth century for their atrocities in South Africa, China and the Philipines, among others. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

Travels Round Our Village (1901)

Essays about the people and places of the English Berkshires. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Eleanor G. Hayden
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures and Other Stories and Essays (1902)

A collection of comic sketches as originally published in Punch. The image above is from the Oxford World’s Classics edition. Read for free online HathiTrust.... View More

The Land of Little Rain (1903)

A collection of essays about the land and people of California. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

Author(s): Mary Austin
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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