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European Genre
Books in the European genre:
Pictures from Italy (1846)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Palmer
A Jar of Honey From Mount Hybla (1848)
A book on the pastoral poetry of Sicily. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Leigh Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Owen Jones
An Overland Journey to the Great Exhibition (1851)
Sixteen comic drawings of visitors on their way to the Great Exhibition printed as a panorama. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson (1854)
A comic look at three Englishmen on the continent, in pictures with gently humorous captions. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims’ Progress (1869)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar (1877)
Unusual for Verne this is a straightforward adventure novel. Unfortunately it is, at least in the English translation, very poorly written.
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Jules-Descartes Férat
North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life (1878)
A travel book of Italy. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mrs. Comyns Carr
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Topo: A Tale About English Children in Italy (1878)
Author(s):
G. E. Brunefille
Illustrator(s):
Kate Greenaway
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Walter Francis Brown
Benjamin Henry Day
W. W. Denslow
True W. Williams
Et al
The Prince and the Pauper (1882)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
John Harley
L. S. Ipsen
Frank T. Merrill
The Story of a Puppet (1892)
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Enrico Mazzanti
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
Rudolf Rassendyll, proper English gentleman, bears an uncanny resemblance to his distant cousin King Rudolf V of Ruritania, and thereby hangs a tale. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Anthony Hope
Illustrator(s):
None
The Red True Story Book (1895)
A collection of true stories of adventure and heroism. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Blue True Story Book (1896)
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Et al
The Book of Wonder Voyages (1896)
A retelling of four famous hero tales, from The Argonauts to the Norsemen. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
None
The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha (1896)
At once the greatest Spanish novel and the last. Published in four volumes.
Author(s):
Miguel de Cervantes
Illustrator(s):
None
My Village (1896)
Author(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The White Rocks (1896)
A novel set in a small Swiss town dealing with a Protestant pastor. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Édouard Rod
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1897)
This was the author’s first novel, dealing with an elderly bibliophile, his cat and his benefactions.
Author(s):
Anatole France
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The History of Reynard the Fox (1897)
Author(s):
William Caxton
F. S. Ellis
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane