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Fiction - Short Story Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies (1923)

Second edition with additional illustrations of this collection of stories and essays about the inhabitants of a small English village, include Snarley Bob and the saintly atheist shoemaker. The scan is of the first edition. Read for free online at I... View More

Author(s): Lawrence P. Jacks
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Reading to Find Out (1923)

An elementary school reader.

Author(s): Frances Ross
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Rootabaga Pigeons (1923)

More American fairy tales by the poet of the prairies. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories (1923)

A collection of new and old stories and poems for very young children. Read online at Hathitrust.

The Windmill (1923)

Selections from books published by Heinemann including an essay by Masefield.

Author(s): John Masefield
Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

Golf Without Tears (1924)

Ten short stories involving golf narrated by the Oldest Member.

Read online at archive.org

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

In Animal Land (1924)

An early elementary school reader.

The Lady Noggs Assists (1924)

Further adventures of Lady Felicia Grandison, Noggs to her friends.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Pears’ Annual 1924 (1924)

An annual sponsored by a soap company with a colored illustration by Rackham.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

The Peep-Show Man (1924)

Three stories set on midsummer’s day, Hallowe’en, and Easter.

Author(s): Pádraic Colum
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Peterkin Papers (1924)

A collection of nonsense stories about the family of Peterkins who rely on the Lady from Philadelphia to extricate them from their troubles.

Author(s): Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s): Harold M. Brett

The Poppy Seed Cakes (1924)

A collection of short stories about two not-very-good children told by Aunt Katushka.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Margery Clark
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Ukridge (1924)

A collection of ten short stories about Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, that self absorbed promoter of the impossible.

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

Carry On, Jeeves! (1925)

A collection of short stories about Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s personal gentleman Jeeves. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Chimney Corner Stories: Tales for Little Children (1925)

A collection of stories for children.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Five of Us – and Madeline (1925)

Five children come down in the world, but when their mother receives an inheritance, everything is comfortable again, except that their cousin Madeline comes to live with them. Also includes two short stories, ‘Last of the Dragons,’ and &... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Nora S. Unwin

The Flying Carpet (1925)

An anthology of leading authors and illustrators of the first part of the twentieth century.

Jemima Puddle-Duck’s Painting Book (1925)

A story book with outline pages to be colored by the owner.

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

Little Ugly Face and Other Indian Tales (1925)

An elementary school reader.

Read online at archive.org

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