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Fiction - Novel Genre
Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:
The Yearling (1939)
The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.
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Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1940)
Twain’s masterpiece illustrated by America’s master illustrator.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Norman Rockwell
Call of the Mountain (1940)
Young Nathan Lindsay tries to carve a farm out of the mountains of Vermont in the 1830’s.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Earthly Paradise (1940)
A historical novel of the third voyage of Columbus.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Philip Gough
The Fair American (1940)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Ghostland: A Novel (1940)
The story of a family that moved to a farm in the Ozarks just before the depression, and fought it out.
Author(s):
Fred Rothermell
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Lassie Come-Home (1940)
When Joe’s father loses his job, Lassie is sold, but she refuses to stay and comes home across the length of England.
Author(s):
Eric Knight
Illustrator(s):
Marguerite Kirmse
Love in the Sun (1940)
A young man and his wife rough it on the Cornish coast as he works on his novel.
Author(s):
Leo Walmsley
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Michel’s Island (1940)
Michel Jarnac, son of a French voyageur and grandson of an Indian chief, lives on Mackinac Island in the early 1800’s.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Morgan’s Fourth Son (1940)
When the youngest son decides to leave the farm as his older brothers have his parents object.
Author(s):
Margaret I. Ross
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Oxus in Summer (1940)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
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.
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Quick Service (1940)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Quick Service (1940)
J.B. Duff, proprietor of the Paramount Ham wants the portrait of his old flame for an advertisement. Plenty of people fall all over themselves trying to steal it for him and a couple of them end up falling in love.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Donald McKay
Secret Water (1940)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Arthur Ransome
Smoky-House (1940)
An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Smoky House (1940)
An exciting story about dogs and donkeys and smugglers.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
To the Indies (1940)
A historical novel of Columbus’ third voyage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Doris Hauman
George Hauman
Vanka’s Donkey (1940)
In this old Russian story, a farm woman learns that kindness is the best way to treat her donkey.
Author(s):
Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Wind in the Willows (1940)
While lacking four of the sixteen color illustrations in the Limited Editions Club version, this reprint includes pen and ink chapter heads not in the limited edition.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham