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Books in the European genre:

Rupert of Hentzau (1898)

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Rudolph Rassendyll is called on to impersonate the King of Ruritania once more in this sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Anthony Hope
Illustrator(s): Charles Dana Gibson

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Anna Karenina (1899)

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A novel of an unhappy family.

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

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Frere Jacques (1902)

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A tale of infidelity, crime and honor in the French manner. The cover is from a very limited edition as it contains the originals of the illustrations used in the regular, although limited, editions. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Charles Paul de Kock
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith
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In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales (1902)

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Sixteen Norse tales from the Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Abbie Farwell Brown
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Sister Anne (1902)

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A young man of the aristocracy has a child by a woman who is dumb. His wife discovers his infidelity and takes the woman and her child into their home.

Author(s): Charles Paul de Kock
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith
Et al

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The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)

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A collection of traditional fairy tales, mainly from Europe. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
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Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

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Zut and Other Parisians (1903)

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A collection of short stories set in the City of Light by an American expatriate. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s): None

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The Brown Fairy Book (1904)

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Stories from many different cultures. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
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Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

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The French Decorative Styles (1904)

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A handbook for ready reference by the editors of The Upholstery Dealer and Decorative Furnisher, one of Ellis Parker Butler's entrepreneurial enterprises. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Brittain B. Wilson
Illustrator(s): Photographs
Various

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Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)

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In this work by the famous American novelist she shows her readers how the emphasis on marble, water and perennial verdure makes up for the relative lack of flowers in the Italian garden. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish
Photographs

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William Tell Told Again (1904)

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The classic story of how the Swiss won their freedom from Austria. Pictures by Dadd, verses by Houghton and narrative by Wodehouse. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): J. W. Houghton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Philip Dadd

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King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905)

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A satirical defense of the Belgian king’s exploitation of the Congo Free State, notoriously the subject of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. A supplement was added to make the second edition. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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The Red Romance Book (1905)

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A selection of stories from the old epics and some newer tales such as Don Quixote. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

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The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908)

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A book of fairy tales based on real princes and princesses. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

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The Red Book of Heroes (1909)

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Biographies of people who were truly in earnest. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s): A. Wallis Mills

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Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet (1911)

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The first English translation of the adventures of the mischevious puppet was originally published in 1892. This edition, with illustrations by Charles Folkard, was the standard edition for many decades and was reprinted many times by different publi... View More

Author(s): Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s): Charles Folkard

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The Sampo (1912)

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A collection of traditional tales from the Finnish Kalevala. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): James Baldwin
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Girls and Boys (1913)

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A series of brief scenes of children at play, with illustrations. Read online at Internet Archive in French, and in English.... View More

Author(s): Anatole France
Illustrator(s): Maurice Boutet de Monvel

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Our Children (1913)

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Brief sketches of boys and girls in town and country from France. This English translations is of the first half of Nos Enfants. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Anatole France
Illustrator(s): Maurice Boutet de Monvel

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Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1915)

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Hans and Gretel’s father has been unable to work. If Hans wins the skating race it will help to support the household. Hans decides to ask the famous brain surgeon if he can help their father. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s): George Wharton Edwards

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