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Fiction - Novel Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

The Trail of the Sandhill Stag (1899)

A further adventure of Yan, this time in pursuit of deer. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

The April Baby’s Book of Tunes (1900)

An English mother entertains her three young German daughters by setting English nursery rhymes to music. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth von Arnim
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

The Biography of a Grizzly (1900)

The biography of a grizzly bear. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1900)

The Autograph Edition, limited to 500 sets, includes 135 plates. The frontispiece in each volume is in color and also in black and white, the latter signed by the artist. The Old Manse Edition has only 100 plates but was printed from the same type an... View More

The Dolliver Romance and Kindred Tales (1900)

This volume of Hawthorne’s collected works includes shorter pieces as well as Septimus Felton. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Don Quixote of La Mancha (1900)

The romance-befuddled Hidalgo mounts his Rozinante and sets out to battle villains and right wrongs. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Edward Abbott Parry
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1900)

A satirical look at the early history of the metropolis. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Washington Irving
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

The Vicar of Wakefield (1900)

The vicar endures the sufferings of Job, but all comes right in the end.

Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

Whirled away on a cyclone, Dorothy is set down in the Land of Oz and must find her way home with the help of the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and a pair of ruby slippers. Read for free online at the Library of Congress. For a faster download go to: Hathit... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

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

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1901)

Alice finds her way to Wonderland down a rabbit hole and meets many queer characters there. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

The Argonauts of the Amazon (1901)

Three friends procure a steam launch to search the upper reaches of the Amazon for the Inca’s treasure. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): C. R. Kenyon
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Dot and Tot of Merryland (1901)

Neighbors Dot and Tot travel through a watery tunnel to a magic fairyland. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

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

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 Master Key (1901)

When Rob strikes the Master Key, the demon of electricity appears to ply him with wondrous electrical inventions. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Fanny Y. Cory

The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)

After being sent to the country “to learn to be good,” the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.... View More

The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)

After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Reginald Birch

The Arkansaw Bear (1902)

Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902)

A burlesque on the Sherlock Holmes craze. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock

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