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Fiction - Short Story Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

Frenzied Fiction (1918)

Essays and stories by the Canadian humorist. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Philo Gubb: Correspondence School Detective (1918)

Seventeen adventures of the world’s first correspondence school detective. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Rea Irvin

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918)

The town mouse and the country mouse decide that they prefer their own way of life after sampling the other’s. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at wikisource. Or at Gutenberg.... View More

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

Tales from Shakespeare (1918)

A celebrated collection of prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays. Read online at archive.org.

The Fox Third Reader (1919)

An elementary school reader with the stories set out as plays or dialogues. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Florence Cornelia Fox
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

The Garden of Kurd Mirza (1919)

An illustration for a short story published in The Century Magazine, in the September 1919 issue on page 643. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Goat-Feathers (1919)

Our popular author urges us to give up collecting goat -feathers, distractions from our real calling. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): no first name Dennis

History Stories for Primary Grades: Ohio Edition (1919)

An elementary school reader. This edition includes the Ohio supplement.  The scan is only of the basic reader. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

My Man Jeeves (1919)

A collection of short stories, four about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Some of the others were later re-written as Bertie and Jeeves stories. These all first appeared in The Strand, some were published in The Saturday Evening Post. Not published in Ame... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Everyday Classics: Fourth Reader (1920)

A collection of short stories and poems for elementary school children. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

From the Earth to the Moon … And a Trip Round It (1920)

A projectile fired from a gun takes these adventurers to the moon and back. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Henry Cruse Murphy, Jr.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)

This is the second collection of short stories about the Prince Edward Island of Anne Shirley. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): John Goss

History Stories for Primary Grades: Indiana Edition (1920)

An elementary school reader with stories bases on American history. Contains a supplement based on Indiana history. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.... View More

Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle’s Lodge-Fire (1920)

A collection of Native American myths, legends, and tales. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Frank Bird Linderman
Illustrator(s): Charles Marion Russell

Little Bun Rabbit (1920)

Originally published as a part of the Baum's Snuggle Tales series, the Oz-Man reprint includes three additional color pictures.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill
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The Magic Cloak (1920)

This is the Oz-Man edition of the original Snuggle Tale and contains an abridgment of Queen Zixi of Ix among other tales. It has four color plates instead of one. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill
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Millingham’s Cat-Fooler (1920)

Brownson and Millingham share the latter's garden hose - when the cat isn't using it. Read online.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Unknown

My Bookhouse: From the Tower Window (1920)

A collection of stories, poems and tales. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
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My Bookhouse: The Treasure Chest (1920)

This volume of the anthology contains longer stories from famous authors. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth
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