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Fiction - Short Story Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls (1930)

An elementary school reader.

Read online at archive.org. 

Golden Tales of the Old South (1930)

A collection of short stories by southern authors or about the old south.

Golden Tales of the Old South (1930)

A collection of short stories by southern authors or about the old south.

Little Indians (1930)

An elementary school reader.

Mr. Mulliner Speaking (1930)

A collection of short stories narrated by Mr. Mulliner. Three feature Bobbie Wickham.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Wallace Morgan

The Outline of Literature (1930)

An English reader with copious illustrations.

Author(s): John Drinkwater
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

Pathfinder: Readings from Modern Literature (1930)

An elementary school reader.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Penny Whistle (1930)

Penny Whistle's Pappy brings him a penny whistle, but soon he gets tired of the one-note song, and sends Penny Whistle out to find some new notes.

Author(s): Erick Berry
Illustrator(s): Erick Berry

Potato Face (1930)

A further collection of Rootabaga stories from the Potato Face Blind Man.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): None

The Snow Image (1930)

Peony and Violet build a snow girl who comes to life and plays with them.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Treasure Trove: Book V (1930)

A reader for elementary and junior high school students.

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)

Eleven short stories in which Jeeves exerts his powers to rescue the young master, Bertie Wooster, and his friends and relatives from various predicaments, chiefly matrimonial.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): James Montgomery Flagg

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)

Eleven short stories in which Jeeves exerts his powers to rescue the young master, Bertie Wooster, and his friends and relatives from various predicaments, chiefly matrimonial. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Clare Roberts

Wolf Tracker (1930)

A brutal short story about a man and wolf engaged in a classic battle of survival of the fittest.

Author(s): Zane Grey
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Behind the Battlements (1931)

Three stories set in fortified cities of France, along with short historical essays on life in the old days.

Author(s): Gertrude Linnell
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

The Donkey of God (1931)

This was the first periodical publication of this story about the noble history of the Donkey. It was published in the December 1931 issue of The St. Nicholas Magazine, Volume LIX, No. 2, page 59. The book publication which included several other sto... View More

Author(s): Louis Untermeyer
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Earthworms in Europe: Alexander Botts Makes the Old World Tractor-Conscious (1931)

In search of new worlds to conquer, Alexander Botts, natural born salesman, sails for Europe with eight Earthworm tractors in the hold.

Author(s): William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s): Tony Sarg

Fact and Story Readers: Book Four (1931)

An elementary school reader.

Author(s): Henry Suzzallo
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Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski
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