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Fiction - Novel Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Far From the Maddening Girls (1904)

A single young man possessed of a good fortune determines to remain single, until a young woman enters his life and he sees the error of his ways. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell

Freckles (1904)

A one handed orphan takes on the job of protecting the valuable trees in the Limberlost from timber pirates.

Author(s): Gene Stratton-Porter
Illustrator(s): E. Stetson Crawford

The Gold Bat (1904)

A tale of Wrykyn, an English ‘public’ school, cricket and certain pranks, one of which targeted the local MP. Read online at Gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)

In this first sequel to The Wizard of Oz, young Tip journeys to the Emerald City and discovers his true identity. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

Molly Bawn (1904)

The story of an Irish flirt. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

Author(s): Mrs. Hungerford
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac (1904)

The fictionalized life of a grizzly bear, who ends in captivity at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)

In the London of 1984, Adam Wayne takes up his sword to halt the construction of a bypass through his London district of Notting Hill. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Graham Robertson

New Treasure Seekers, or The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1904)

Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne

The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)

The five children who discovered It find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace. Read online at gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)

The five children who discovered ‘It’ find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

Red Pottage (1904)

A novel of scandal.

Author(s): Mary Cholmondeley
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

A Texas Matchmaker (1904)

A collection of stories about cow punching in the old West. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Andy Adams
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

The Transgression of Andrew Vane (1904)

A truly pot-boiling ‘problem novel’ of today - from 1904! Read online at archive.org.

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

The Head of Kay’s (1905)

Having been appointed head boy of Kay’s house against his will, Kennedy soon finds that it is something like taking over the running of Hades while Mephistopheles sat back and watched. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

Lady Noggs Peeress (1905)

Lady Felicia Grandison, known to her friends as Noggs, despite her uncle the Prime Minister's attempts to make a lady of her, generally has her own way.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Lewis Baumer

A Little Princess Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time (1905)

Originally a short story, then made into a play, this is a more developed story of the orphan girl left at a boarding school who is reduced to servitude, then rescued by a friend of her father’s. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s): Ethel Franklin Betts

Pug Peter (1905)

Pug Peter runs away to Animal-Land where, while he is searching for Doggiland, he finds himself made king of Mousiland.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): John Hassall
Harry Rountree

Queen Zixi of Ix (1905)

The evil Queen Zixi schemes to steal the fairies' magic cloak. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Frederick Richardson

The Railway Children (1905)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Smouldering Fires (1905)

A story of the eruption of Mount Pelee on May 8, 1902 on the Island of Martinique in the French Antilles which killed more than 30,000 people.

Author(s): Evelyn Everett-Green
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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