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Fiction - Novel Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Two Little Misogynists (1922)

A book based on the author’s childhood.

Author(s): Carl Spitteler
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

The White Company (1922)

Alleyne Edricson joins The White Company of English mercenaries and serves as squire to Sir Nigel Loring during their campaigns in France and Spain under the Black Prince. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Boys and Girls of Bookland (1923)

Pictures to illustrate short synopses of famous children’s books. The illustrations first appeared in Good Housekeeping Magazine. Read online at archve.org. ... View More

Author(s): Nora Archibald Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

Boys and Girls of Bookland (1923)

Pictures to illustrate short synopses of famous children’s books. The illustrations first appeared in Good Housekeeping Magazine. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Nora Archibald Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

A Christmas Carol (1923)

The classic story of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge. This abridged edition has more illustrations than the 1899 edition.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Den hemmelighedsfulde Ø (1923)

Prisoners of war held by the Union forces escape in a balloon and are blown out over the Pacific Ocean before crashing near a desert island. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Det rullende Hus (1923)

The steam house is an iron elephant that runs on steam. Includes The Demon of Cawnpore and Tigers and Traitors. Interior illustrations and possibly cover by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Emily of New Moon (1923)

The author returns to her original vein with this story of an orphan girl on Prince Edward Island. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

En Verdensomsejling under Havet (1923)

Captain Nemo, the terror of the seas wreaks havoc among the shipping in the Nautilus. Danish translation, interior black and white illustrations by Tenggren, and likely the cover as well.

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Fem Uger i Ballon (1923)

Verne’s first successful adventure novel takes three Englishmen across northern and central Africa in a hydrogen balloon. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Heidi (1923)

The orphaned Heidi goes to live in the Swiss mountains with her grandfather. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Jorden rundt i 80 Dage (1923)

Phileas Fogg and the intrepic Passepartout set out to circle the globe in 80 days for a stake of 20,000 pounds dogged by the determined detective Fix. Danish translation, interior black and white illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Kaptajn Grants Born (1923)

Lord Glenarvan undertakes to circumnavigate the world at the 37th parallel in an attempt to locate Captain Grant of the Duncan. The former quartermaster of the Duncan later turns up in The Mysterious Island. Interior illustrations and possibly cover ... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Kaptajnen paa 15 Aar (1923)

In this nonstop melodrama the crew of a whaler pick up a group of shipwrecked seamen, are turned around and end up in west Africa, are enslaved, escape and make their way back to America. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Kejserens Kurér (1923)

While on his way to Irkutsk to warn the governor of a plot to betray him to the rebel Tatars Michael finds a wife and nearly loses his life more than once. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Keraban Stivnakke (1923)

To avoid paying a tax to cross the Bosphorus, Keraban takes a seven hundred league detour around the shore of the Black Sea. Also published in two volumes: The Captain of the Guidara and Scarpante the Spy. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Miss Mapp (1923)

Miss Elizabeth Mapp leads the social life of Tilling from her fine old family home of Mallards. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): E. F. Benson
Illustrator(s): None

Mostly Sally (1923)

When Sally comes into a small legacy her problems multiply. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Rejsen til Maanen (1923)

Propelled from an enormous gun by a charge of gun cotton, a space capsule is hurled towards the moon. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

Sense and Sensibility (1923)

When Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters find themselves in realtive poverty with only the income of ten thousand pounds ($100,000 per year in current money) to live on, she determines to move to a different part of the country, near a cousin who o... View More

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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