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Fiction - Novel Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Five Children and It (1902)

Five children on holiday discover a sand fairy in a local quarry -- and it grants their wishes, with sometimes surprising results. Download our free ebook: EPUB. This is for ebook readers. Click the button, and the ePub file will go to your default ... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar
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The Flight of Pony Baker (1902)

Pony decides nobody understands him at home and decides to run away, but can’t seem to quite carry it off. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): William Dean Howells
Illustrator(s): Florence Scovel Shinn

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)

A fictionalized account of the origin of Santa Claus. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Mary Cowles Clark

An Old-Fashioned Girl (1902)

Polly, a simple ‘old-fashioned’ girl from the country visits her wealthy friend Fanny in the big city.

Author(s): Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

The Pothunters (1902)

The sports trophies are missing from the pavilion and Jim Thomson is under suspicion since he did hurl a rock through the window preparatory to his own burglary, which was aimed soley at recovering his notes for an examination scheduled for the next ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): R. Noel Pocock

Sister Anne (1902)

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
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1902)

Alice returns to Wonderland by way of the looking glass over the mantle and meets many queer people, including the Walrus and the Carpenter. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell

Barchester Towers (1903)

An ecclesiastical novel, second in the Barsetshire Chronicles. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Anthony Trollope
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

The Enchanted Island of Yew (1903)

When a fairy takes on the form of a mortal prince for a year, she has many adventures among the people of the Island of Yew. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

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

The Grey House on the Hill (1903)

A young boy is falsely accused of theft and banished to the work house by an unforgiving master.

Author(s): The Hon. Mrs. Greene
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Lieutenant-Governor (1903)

When the corrupt governor is murdered, the lieutenant-governor has to decide the assassin’s fate. Read online at archive.org.

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

The New Wizard of Oz (1903)

Bobbs-Merrill Co. took over publication of the first Oz book in 1903 and retitled it to distinguish it from the first edition.

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

A Prefect’s Uncle (1903)

When Alan Gethryn’s uncle joins his house as a junior, embarrassing situations arise for the head of Leicester’s house. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): R. Noel Pocock

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s): None

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903)

The first of four volumes in Howard Pyle’s history of The Matter of Britain - that is the story of King Arthur. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People (1903)

Only twelve of the original sixteen color illustrations are included in this edition, but there are new in-text illustrations. Read online at Project Gutenberg.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned (1903)

This story of two boys who ‘took to the woods’ and lived as Indians for a summer was written by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts and much of it found its way into the Boy Scout Handbook. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

The Admirable Tinker (1904)

Disowned by his stepmother Sir Tancred and his son, Tinker, live by their wits. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Margaret Eckerson

Dot and Tot of Merryland (1904)

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

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

Extracts from Adam’s Diary Translated from the Original MS (1904)

A satirical look at the Garden of Eden. This version was originally printed in a miscellany The Niagara Book, published for distribution at the 1893 Buffalo, New York World’s Fair and contains references to Niagara Falls. The original version w... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): F. Strothmann

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