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Fiction - Novel Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, a Sequel to Typee (1924)

In this sequel to Typee, the narrator is taken off the island by a whaleman, but soon discovers the captain and mate are incompetent. Along with most of the crew he jumps ship in Tahiti and is briefly jailed as a mutineer. On his release he bums abou... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The Paid Piper (1924)

The adventures of a tramp among high and low.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

A Pawn Among Kings (1924)

The story of a Hungarian girl who plays a decisive part in the events that end at Waterloo.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Frank Marston

Sard Harker (1924)

Sard Harker sets out to do a good deed for two fellow Englishmen and soon finds himself kidnapped and forced to wander about Santa Barbara. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Sard Harker (1924)

Sard Harker sets out to do a good deed for two fellow Englishmen and soon finds himself kidnapped and forced to wander about Santa Barbara.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Wings of the Morning (1924)

Miss Iris Deane is shipwrecked in the South China Sea along with the only other survivor, Robert Jenks, a cashiered British army officer who was working as a steward. The J.C. Winston edition has eleven color plates, the Doran edition only eight, but... View More

Author(s): Louis Tracy
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The Adventures of Remi (1925)

Abandoned on the streets of Paris as a baby, Remi is raised by his foster mother until his foster father’s injury impoverishes the family and he is sent out on the roads as a travelling minstrel. After many adventures and making many friends, h... View More

Author(s): Hector Malot
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The Children of Dickens (1925)

Short excerpts from Dicken’s novels introducing his child characters.

Read online at archive.org

Emily Climbs (1925)

In this second volume of the trilogy, Emily goes off to high school and continues her writing. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

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

Five of Us – and Madeline (1925)

Five children come down in the world, but when their mother receives an inheritance, everything is comfortable again, except that their cousin Madeline comes to live with them. Also includes two short stories, ‘Last of the Dragons,’ and &... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Nora S. Unwin

In the Endless Sands: a Christmas Book for Boys and Girls (1925)

A boy is lost in the North African desert, and taken in by the Arabs.

Author(s): Cyril Kay-Scott
Evelyn Scott
Illustrator(s): Owen Merton

Les Misérables (1925)

The novel takes place in France from 1815 - the end of the Napoleonic era - to the 1832 Paris uprising. According to Hugo, “The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details ... a... View More

Author(s): Victor Hugo
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The Plucky Allens (1925)

Four orphans are raised by their aunt in the good old fashioned way.

Author(s): Clara Dillingham Pierson
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Quest (1925)

A young man spends much of his time thinking about philosophical and religious questions. Dust jacket by Tenggren.

Author(s): Katharine Newlin Burt
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Sam in the Suburbs (1925)

Sam Shotter falls in love with a picture in an English weekly magazine tacked up on the wall of a log cabin in Canada. When he finds himself living next door to her in Valley Fields he doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

Sam the Sudden (1925)

Sam Shotter falls in love with a picture in an English weekly magazine tacked up on the wall of a log cabin in Canada. When he finds himself living next door to her in Valley Fields he doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet. Read online at a... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Frank Marston

Where the Blue Begins (1925)

A satire on the author George Gissing in which all the parts are played by dogs. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Christopher Morley
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Adventures of Johnny T. Bear (1926)

Johnny T. Bear is a bad bear. He runs away from his toy shop, but is almost caught by the little old lady and forced to stay in her toy shop.

Author(s): Margaret J. McElroy
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Black Angels (1926)

They all seven loved to sing, except Joseph, and eagerly accepted Benjy's plan to form an Operatic and Concert Troupe.

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): George Breans

The Blue Castle (1926)

When Valancy Stirling learns she has only a year to live, she decides to throw caution to the winds. A novel for adults.

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Wall

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