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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

The Castle Inn (1898)

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A “Regency Romance” albeit set in the eighteenth century. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Stanley J. Weyman
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Emma (1898)

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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, fancies her self a match-maker, but after her first effort, she can’t seem to do anything right.

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock

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Evelina or The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World (1898)

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A novel in letters from the turn of the nineteenth century. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Frances Burney
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq (1898)

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A romance of the early eighteenth century in Thackeray’s best style. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Mansfield Park (1898)

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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.

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock

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The Monkey That Would Not Kill (1898)

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A collection of stories about a monkey that could not be killed -- shot, hanged, thrown into the sea with a stone around his neck, blown up with dynamite -- but not killed. Read online at Hathitrust. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Henry Drummond
Illustrator(s): Louis Wain

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No Thoroughfare (1898)

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Based on a stage play co-written with Wilkie Collins, this is the story of two orphans given the same name and the search for a missing heir. The title page by Bedford; frontis by Goodman.... View More

Author(s): Wilkie Collins
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
A. Jules Goodman

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Northanger Abbey (1898)

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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): C. E. Brock

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Pride and Prejudice (1898)

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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): C. E. Brock

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Rupert of Hentzau (1898)

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Rudolph Rassendyll is called on to impersonate the King of Ruritania once more in this sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Anthony Hope
Illustrator(s): Charles Dana Gibson

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Anna Karenina (1899)

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A novel of an unhappy family.

Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Battle of Life (1899)

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One of Charles Dickens’ Christmas books, this is a story of love and self-sacrifice set in a rural village.

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

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Boy Life on the Prairie (1899)

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An account of growing up on an Iowa farm shortly after the Civil War. Considered by many the author’s best work and one of the outstanding accounts of growing up in the Midwest in the nineteenth century. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hamlin Garland
Illustrator(s): Edwin Willard Deming

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The Chimes: A Goblin Story (1899)

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The goblins ringing the chimes show Trotty a dystopian future -- he wakes determined to do what he can to make things better. This Christmas story followed the successful A Christmas Carol.... View More

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

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A Christmas Carol (1899)

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The classic story of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge.

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

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The Cricket on the Hearth (1899)

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This, the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books, tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family and their friends.

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

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Feats on the Fjord (1899)

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An adventure story set in Norway. The scan is of the second edition with the illustrations colored in. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Harriet Martineau
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Gentleman From Indiana (1899)

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John Harkness returns home to Indiana to run a newspaper, fight corruption and the Klan, and win a seat in Congress. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): None

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The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1899)

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Professor Redlaw is haunted by his anger at past slights but learns forgetting will not heal him -- he must forgive. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1899)

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The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne

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