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Fiction - Short Story Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

Mountain Gateways (1933)

An elementary school reader.

Mulliner Nights (1933)

A collection of short stories narrated by Mr. Mulliner. Wodehouse seems to have been thinking much on the comedic possibilities of the higher clergy at this time.

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

Mulliner Nights (1933)

A collection of short stories narrated by Mr. Mulliner. Wodehouse seems to have been thinking much on the comedic possibilities of the higher clergy at this time. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Salomon and Joseph Abbey

A Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic (1934)

The story of a school outing on the frozen Dutch canals.

Author(s): Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s): Hilda van Stockum

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1935
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

Hansi (1934)

Hansi spends Christmas with his aunt and uncle high in the mountains of the Tyrol. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s): Ludwig Bemelmans

Hunting the Wow (1934)

A collection of humorous stories and essays.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Thomas J. Fogarty

P. G. Wodehouse (1934)

A volume in the series Methuen’s Library of Humour containing seven short stories or book chapters by the Master.

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

The Picnic Book (1934)

An elementary school reader.

Blandings Castle (1935)

A collection of a dozen short stories about Lord Emsworth and his Blandings estate. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): None

Blandings Castle (1935)

A collection of a dozen short stories about Lord Emsworth and his Blandings estate.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): None

A Century of Humour (1935)

A collection of humorous pieces from the last (nineteenth) and early twentieth centuries. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The Enchanted Castle (1935)

Bebe and Jean go on a believing journey to Colleen Moore’s Doll House.

Author(s): Colleen Moore
Illustrator(s): Marie A. Lawson

The Female Felon (1935)

The adventures of a woman who casts her lot in with a pirate crew.

Author(s): Helen Simpson
Illustrator(s): Mary Shepard

Golden Tales of the Far West (1935)

A collection of short stories by western writers or on western themes.

Johnny Bear, Lobo and Other Stories (1935)

Includes Johnny Bear, Lobo, Raggylug, Chink, The Mother Teal and the Overland Rout and Wully.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

Mulliner Omnibus (1935)

A collection of Mr. Mulliner stories from Mr. Mulliner Speaking, Meet Mr. Mulliner, Mulliner Nights and the Mr. Mulliner stories from Blandings Castle (Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.) Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Salomon and Joseph Abbey

People from Dickens (1935)

Extracts from Dickens that illuminate his characters.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Thomas J. Fogarty

The Scandal of Father Brown (1935)

The fifth collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest who is considered one of the high spots of detective fiction. Later editions of this volume contain a ninth story: ‘The Vampire of the Village.’

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1935)

Twenty-five tales of detection, terror and the macabre.

Author(s): Edgar Allen Poe
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories (1935)

A collection of stories, old and new and poems for very young children. This reprint had several different covers, and was also available in a box.

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