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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Prester John (1910)

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A young Scot goes out to South Africa where he becomes caught up in a native rebellion. This is a later American edition.

Author(s): John Buchan
Illustrator(s): Henry C. Pitz

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Psmith in the City (1910)

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Mike and Psmith go into the New Asiatic Bank. Mike gets called up to play cricket for his county and Psmith quits the bank as well to watch him. They both go up to Cambridge as the story ends. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

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

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The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur (1910)

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In this, the fourth and final volume of his history of the Matter of Britain - that is King Arthur and his knights, Howard Pyle tells of the adventures of Sir Galahad and the death of King Arthur. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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The Varmint (1910)

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Adventures at a boys’ boarding school - more football than baseball. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): F. R. Gruger

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Babes in Birdland (1911)

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A full length tale about Twinkle and her friend Chubbins. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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The Children of the New Forest (1911)

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During the English civil war, a family of children take to the woods to escape from the Parliamentary forces. Read for free online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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David Copperfield (1911)

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This autobiographical novel was considered by its author as his greatest work, and his readers over the last century and a half have agreed with him. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Frank Reynolds

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Jim Davis (1911)

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Young Jim Davis accidentally stumbles on a smugglers’ den and is shanghaied into their crew, until after a series of hairbreadth adventures he finally escapes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): None

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King Arthur’s Knights (1911)

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Some of the tales of the Knights of the Round Table. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Henry Gilbert
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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Rolf in the Woods (1911)

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The story of a friendship between a white boy and an Indian in New York around the time of the War of 1812. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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The Sea Fairies (1911)

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Cap'n Bill and Trot visit the mermaids in their watery realm. Read online at archive.org.

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

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The Tennessee Shad (1911)

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The Prodigious Hickey has moved on but life continues at The Lawrenceville School. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): F. R. Gruger

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Tom Brown’s School Days (1911)

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One of the first English boarding school stories set at Rugby and written by an ‘old boy.’ The black and white illustrations are by Rhead, the color by Schoonover. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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Treasure Island (1911)

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When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
N. C. Wyeth

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The Wonderful Garden: or the Three C’s (1911)

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Caroline, Charlotte and Charles are staying with their great-uncle and try to work magic with a book on the language of flowers - and get their heart’s desire. Read online at gutenberg.org.... View More

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

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Dickens’s Children (1912)

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This is a thin portfolio with ten illustrations and accompanying text. The illustrations were reused in The Children of Dickens. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Junior Classics Volume 9 (1912)

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Short stories and the short novel The Rose and the Ring by W. M. Thackeray, for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Edward Everett Hale
Joel Chandler Harris
Edward Verrall Lucas
William Makepeace Thackeray
Various
Stewart Edward White
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
Various

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The Prince and Betty (1912)

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Betty Silver is attracted to John Maude, but when her stepfather orders her to marry him she runs away to New York and gets a job on a crusading newspaper. John follows her and the course of true love does not run smooth. The American edition include... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): None

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The Prince and Betty (1912)

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Betty Silver is attracted to John Maude, but when her stepfather orders her to marry him she runs away to New York and gets a job on a crusading newspaper. John follows her and the course of true love does not run smooth. This original edition includ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Will Grefe

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Sky Island (1912)

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Trot and Cap’n Bill meet Button Bright and Polychrome, the Rainbow’s daughter, on their trip to Sky Island. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

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

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