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Fiction - Novel Genre
Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:
Wet Magic (1958)
When Francis unwittingly summons a mermaid, she and Mavis, Bernard and Kathleen must rescue it from a sideshow and return it to the sea.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1958)
After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Arthur H. Buckland
John Hassall
The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1959)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
George Cruikshank
The Adventures of Roderick Random (1959)
Author(s):
Tobias Smollett
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Auntie Robbo (1959)
When eleven year old Hector's long-lost stepmother shows up, intent on reforming them, he and his Auntie Robbo take to the road to escape her machinations.
Author(s):
Ann Scott Moncrieff
Illustrator(s):
Christopher Brooker
The Bombard (1959)
David Onny and his friends serve as bombardiers under the Black Prince.
Author(s):
Henry Treece
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Coal Camp Girl (1959)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
David and the Mountain (1959)
A Welsh boy breaks the rules to go up on the mountain where he rescues a cragfast sheep.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
End of Term (1959)
Nicola and Lawrie Marlow return for their second fall term at Kingscote School.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Esmeralda Ahoy! (1959)
Four children in a sailboat on the Thames.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Fairholme
Pamela Powell
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Exploits of Don Quixote (1959)
The most famous exploits of the muddle-headed Don for younger readers.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Miguel de Cervantes
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
French Leave (1959)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Friday’s Tunnel (1959)
A mystery involving February and her brother Friday, who is digging a tunnel in the back yard and the large Callendar family and something to do with international intrigue.
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
The Gammage Cup (1959)
Author(s):
Carol Kendall
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Great Expectations (1959)
Young Pip acquires a patron and soon rises above his family. This is the World’s Classics edition with dust jacket by Ardizzone #128.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Warwick Goble
Holiday Trench (1959)
The Maitlands and their friends decide to put a stop to cars driving on the beach.
Author(s):
Joan Ballantyne
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Humphrey Clinker (1959)
Author(s):
Tobias Smollett
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Life and Adventures of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1959)
An early absurdist work. This World’s Classics edition, #40, has a dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Laurence Sterne
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Little Silver House (1959)
Author(s):
Jennie D. Lindquist
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Lord Jim (1959)
Driven from the sea by a youthful act of cowardice and betrayal, Jim makes a new life for himself, but is again faced with a life and death decision on which hinges the fate of many innocents.
Author(s):
Joseph Conrad
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward