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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

The Deerslayer or The First Warpath (1926)

While written last, in 1841, The Deerslayer is chronologically the first in the Leatherstocking Tales. Natty Bumpo, a European raised among American Indians, is the hero of the series. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Five of Us -- and Madeline (1926)

A typical Nesbit family saga plus two fairy tales.

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

The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)

A tangled tale of love and deceit unfolds beneath Vesuvius in the year 79 A.D. and comes to a climax with the volcano’s eruption

The Last of the Mohicans (1926)

This, the second book in the Leatherstocking Tales, is again set in New York during the French and Indian War. Uncas is the titular Mohican.

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

Little Girl Blue (1926)

When Winkie’s mother is reported to have died, she is expelled from her boarding school and enters the inferno of the orphanage system.

Author(s): Beth A. Retner
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Mansfield Park (1926)

Sir Thomas Bertram considers he is bestowing a great favor on Fanny Price when he takes her into his home, but in the end finds himself in her debt. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

The Mountain of Jade (1926)

An adventure story set in Alaska among the Coppermine River eskimo. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1926)

In Northanger Abbey Catherine Morland spends six weeks in Bath where she makes the acquaintance of General Tilney’s son and daughter. When the General invites her to return with them to Northanger Abbey she is prepared for all the gothic horror... View More

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

ODTAA (1926)

Highworth Foliat Ridden’s father sends him out to Santa Barbara on the Spanish Main to see what he can make of himself.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): E. G. Perman

ODTAA (1926)

Highworth Foliat Ridden’s father sends him out to Santa Barbara on the Spanish Main to see what he can make of himself.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): A. D. Rahn

Payment Deferred (1926)

William Marble did the murder. The question is, will fate let him get away with it?

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

Pride and Prejudice (1926)

When Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy refuses to dance with her, Elizabeth Bennett is confirmed in her prejudice that he is filled with pride. On further acquaintance she is forced to revise her opinion. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

The Princess and the Goblin (1926)

The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued by Curdie, a miner’s son.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

The Billy Bang Book (1927)

A little boy and his wild animal friends have many adventures.

Children of the Moor (1927)

This is a story about a family of children during the Swedish famines of the 1860’s.

Author(s): Laura Matilda Fitinghoff
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Children of the Mountain Eagle (1927)

The story of a girl who lives in the mountains of Albania.

Read online at archive.org

The Cricket on the Hearth (1927)

This, the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books, tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family and their friends. This edition has many more illustrations than the 1899 edition.... View More

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

The Cricket on the Hearth (1927)

This, the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books, tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family and their friends. This edition has many more illustrations than the 1899 edition.... View More

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

Don Coyote (1927)

A western novel about a shy cowboy who saves the heroine's father’s mine.

Author(s): Whitman Chambers
Illustrator(s): Elmer Hader

Emily’s Quest (1927)

In the last installment of the trilogy Emily falls in and out of love, and finally becomes a published author.

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

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