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Fiction - Short Story Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

Bandit Jim Crow (1906)

Eight brief stories about a crow who is not at all nice.

Author(s): Laura Bancroft
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

The Children’s Hour (1906)

An anthology published in aid of the Children’s Happy Evenings Association.

Author(s): Ralph Hall Caine, Jun.
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
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Forgotten Tales of Long Ago (1906)

Twenty short stories, many by anonymous authors. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Myths from Many Lands (1906)

A large selection of myths. Read online at archive.org.

The National Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (1906)

This complete works of Charles Dickens was published in a forty-volume set and this eighty-volume set.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne
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Perkins of Portland Perkins the Great (1906)

Eight episodes in the career of Perkins of Portland, the greatest American promoter of the early twentieth century. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Adrian J. Iorio

Pigs Is Pigs (1906)

Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company determines that guinea pigs should pay the same freight as hogs, not pets. The consignee refuses to pay and Mike ends up with a rapidly multiplying stock of guinea pigs. Read online ... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Will Crawford

Prairie-Dog Town (1906)

Twinkle and Chubbins pay a visit to a prairie-dog town.

Author(s): Laura Bancroft
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

The Queen’s Museum and Other Fanciful Tales (1906)

A collection of modern fairy tales and satires including The Bee-Man of Orn and The Griffin and the Minor Canon. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Frank R. Stockton
Illustrator(s): Frederick Richardson

The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906)

The fierce bad rabbit steals a carrot from the good little rabbit, and as he eats it, is shot by a hunter and loses his tail and the carrot. This is the original panorama format.

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

The Story of Miss Moppet (1906)

Miss Moppet, the cat, makes the mistake of playing with her food, and the mouse escapes her grasp. This is the original panorama edition.

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

Sunday Reading for the Young (1906)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906)

A frog goes fishing and a fish goes frogging. This is a special publisher’s binding. Read online at archive.org. Or at Hathitrust. Or at wikisource.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

Tinker Two: The Further Adventures of the Admirable Tinker (1906)

The Admirable Tinker, along with his adoptive sister Elsie and the Laddy Noggs, Peeress has further surprising adventures. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): None

Crandford; The Cage at Cranford; The Moorland Cottage (1907)

This volume in The World’s Classics includes an additional story of Cranford.

Author(s): Mrs. Gaskell
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Good-Night (1907)

The story of Padre Alonzo, his Mexican parrot, Loretta and a yellow canary named Tony. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Eleanor Gates
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Great American Pie Company (1907)

Mr. Deacon and Mr. Doolittle are the delivery men for their wives’ pie bakeries. In the great American tradition they get together over a pie and carve up the market between them. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Frederic Dorr Steele

The Ingoldsby Legends (1907)

A collection of ghost stories, tales, legends and poems, most with a humorous twist. This edition has additional illustrations. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Ingoldsby
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Land of Enchantment (1907)

A collection of new fairy tales. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Old Fashioned Stories and Poems Volume VI (1907)

An anthology from the early part of the twentieth century. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Walter Crane
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