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Fiction - Novel Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

The Brown Owl (1892)

A princess must defend her kingdom and choose a consort, but has the aid of a Brown Owl. This is the author's first work. It was illustrated by his grandfather. It is the first volume in Unwin's The Children's Library. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ford Madox Hueffer
Illustrator(s): Ford Madox Brown

The Girls and I: A Veracious History (1892)

The adventures of a boy and his four sisters. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Marian: or The Abbey Grange (1892)

When their father dies without a will, the Somerville family is forced from their home by rascally Cousin James.

Author(s): Annie E. Armstrong
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Men of Iron (1892)

A tale of Henry IV of England and his court. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

A Modern Aladdin or the Wonderful Adventures of Oliver Munier (1892)

The hero meets the 18th century polymath and adventurer the Comte de St.-Germaine. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

Catriona: A Sequel to “Kidnapped” Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad (1893)

In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): None

David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1893)

In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): None

A Hit and a Miss (1893)

Making a great impression is not all it is made out to be, in this story of a gang of children in a park.

Author(s): Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Mary: A Nursery Story for Very Little Children (1893)

Mary is four and cannot remember how old she was when she learned to read. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893)

This is the second and concluding volume of the novel by the author of Alice which weaves between the worlds of faerie and Victorian England. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Harry Furniss

The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)

Rudolf Rassendyll, proper English gentleman, bears an uncanny resemblance to his distant cousin King Rudolf V of Ruritania, and thereby hangs a tale. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Anthony Hope
Illustrator(s): None

Pudd’nhead Wilson a Tale (1894)

A slave woman switches her son for the son of her master. Is it nature or nurture that forms character? This first British edition does not include The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, published in the first American edition. Read online at Hathitru... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): James Mapes Dodge
Louis Loeb

Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)

Tom, Huck and Jim embark on an airship and travel to North Africa. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Dan Beard

The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894)

The son of a free woman and the son of a slave woman are switched at birth. Is it nature or nurture that determines their character? Those Extraordinary Twins was written first as a satire, but the story of the two children and Pudd’nhead Wilso... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): F. M. Senior
C. H. Warren

The Adventures of Captain Horn (1895)

Castaways on the desert coast of South America discover a mountain of gold. How to safely secure it? Read for free online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Frank R. Stockton
Illustrator(s): None

“Captains Courageous” A Story of the Grand Banks (1895)

Harvey Cheyne falls overboard from his liner on the Grand Banks and is picked up by a cod fisherman who proceeds to make a man of him. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): John Lockwood Kipling

The Carved Lions (1895)

A brother and sister are unhappy at boarding school when their parents must go abroad. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

Author(s): Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1895)

In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1895)

When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

Mr. Midshipman Easy (1895)

A young man, who seems very like a fool, is sent to sea and makes good.

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum

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