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Far East Genre
Books in the Far East genre:
Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1841)
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Allen Robert Branston
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
Indian Fairy Tales (1892)
A selection of Indian folk and fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
John D. Batten
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
Kim (1901)
Kim O’Hara grows up unsupervised in British India and is recruited into the secret service. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
John Lockwood Kipling
The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
Stories from many different cultures. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Arabian Nights Their Best-Known Tales (1909)
Ten of the most famous tales from the Thousand and One Nights, adapted for younger readers. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
None
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Den underbare prinsen och andra indiska epos återberättade för ungdom (1916)
A Swedish translation of several Indian epic tales.
Author(s):
Erik Jotson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines (1917)
A story about children living in the Philippines for American children. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
John Stuart Thomson
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Det rullende Hus (1923)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Et al
The Grateful Elephant and Other Stories Translated from the Pali (1923)
Twenty-six Buddhist parables. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Eugene Watson Burlingame
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Kejserens Kurér (1923)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Et al
Philippine Picture Word Book (1923)
An early reader for use in Philippine schools.
Author(s):
May H. Prentice
Margaret A. Purcell
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
F. G. Cooper
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1923)
Author(s):
Herman Melville
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, a Sequel to Typee (1924)
Author(s):
Herman Melville
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
The Philippine National Literature: Book Two (1925)
An English language elementary school reader for students int eh Philippines under American rule.
Author(s):
Harriott Ely Fansler
Isidoro Panlasigui
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Bemol and Kusum: Children of Bengal (1926)
A story of children’s life in India’s Bengal state.
Author(s):
Herbert E. Wyman
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Michael Strogoff A Courier of the Czar (1927)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Prince Bantam (1929)
Based on the Japanese folktale of Yoshitsune the brave and his faithful henchman Benei of the Western Pagoda.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Wisdom of the East, The Cloud-Men of Yamato (1929)
An outline of mysticism in Japanese literature.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
E. V. Gatenby
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle