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Books in the Essays genre:

My Debut as a Literary Person (1903)

Fourteen stories and essays originally published as volume XXIII in the author’s complete works. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

The Friendly Town (1905)

This collection of essays on the joys of city life has endpapers by F. D. Bedford. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Sunday Reading for the Young (1905)

This was a periodical with religious-themed content. It was published weeky and monthly numbers and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Gordon Browne
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The Venture (1905)

A collection of essays by literary lights of the day. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
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Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
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The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906)

This is a collection of thirty-eight pieces by the iconic American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories span the course of his career, from 1865 to 1904. Sixteen are here first collected. They include Saint Joan of Arc. Read online at Hathitru... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Albert Levering
W. T. Smedley
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The Flock (1906)

A study of the sheep rancher in California at the turn of the twentieth century. The cover is from the reprint edition. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

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

The National Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (1906)

This complete works of Charles Dickens was published in a forty-volume set and this eighty-volume set.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne
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Sunday Reading for the Young (1906)

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

Christian Science (1907)

A combination of a humorous send-up and a more serious critique of the cult of Mary Baker Eddy. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

Sunday Reading for the Young (1907)

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
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Gadshill Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (1908)

Based on the author’s final edition with the original illustrations as well as many additional illustrations. Includes two volumes of uncollected pieces and the two-volume biography by John Forster for a total of 38 volumes.... View More

Sunday Reading for the Young (1908)

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

Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography (1909)

Twain here points out the surprising lack of evidence that the man Shakespeare actually wrote the plays that were published under his name. He favors the Bacon hypothesis rather than the Oxford. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

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

Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (1910)

This was the author’s first book of humorous sketches -- it starts right off with ‘My Financial Career’ -- one of his most often-anthologized pieces. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): None

Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies (1910)

A collection of short stories about the residents of an English hamlet, including the village atheist, a shepherd and the minister’s wife, formerly on the stage. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Lawrence P. Jacks
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (1911)

This was a significantly enlarged edition with fourteen new sketches. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): None

The Little White Bird (1912)

A collection of essays centered on Kensington Gardens, in which is first introduced Peter Pan. Two illustrations by Rackham, which may or may not be in color. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1912)

Six volumes. The gilt device on the cover is by Bedford. This is the foolscap octavo edition, which includes new material not in the large paper edition of 1903-5. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge (1913)

A collection of humorous essays by the Canadian master. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): Anne Harriet Fish

King Albert’s Book (1914)

Letters, poems, songs and pictures in sympathy for Belgium under the Teuton’s boot, this book served as a fundraiser for relief efforts. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

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