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Fiction - Short Story Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

Captain Castle: A Tale of the China Seas (1897)

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Dick Quenton gets more than he bargained for when he ships as second mate on a tramp steamer from Singapore to Batavia, what with mutiny, typhoons, pirates and plague. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Carlton Dawe
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The First Trousers (1897)

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Eight very short stories, each with an illustration. Read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): E. Veale
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox

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The Monkey's Trick (1897)

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Four stories you can read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): E. Veale
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox

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Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1897)

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In Northanger Abbey Catherine Morland spends six weeks in Bath where she makes the acquaintance of General Tilney’s son and daughter. When the General invites her to return with them to Northanger Abbey she is prepared for all the gothic horror... View More

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): Hugh Thomson

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Sporting Society or Sporting Chat and Sporting Memories (1897)

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A two-volume work with some of Randolph Caldecott’s illustrations in each volume. Read online at HathiTrust: Volume 1 and Volume 2.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Tom Sawyer Detective: As Told by Huck Finn, and Other Tales (1897)

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This British edition contains the original text of Extracts from Adam’s Diary as well as the title story and five other pieces.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

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Cranford (1898)

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A collection of short stories about the shabby genteel society of a small English town, modeled on the author’s hometown of Knutsford. This edition has both colored and black and white illustrations. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Gaskell
Illustrator(s): Hugh Thomson

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Dream Days (1898)

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This is the second volume of Kenneth Grahame’s reminiscences of childhood and includes his story The Reluctant Dragon. There were at least three variant bindings of the British first edition. The American first edition was slightly smaller form... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Charles Robinson

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Four-Footed Americans and their Kin (1898)

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Animal biographies set in a fictional framework. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Mabel Osgood Wright
Illustrator(s): Ernest Seton Thompson

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The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels (1898)

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A collection of folk tales, legends ghost stories, and poems, many with a humorous twist. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

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

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Somebody’s Luggage (1898)

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This was the Christmas number of “All the Year Round” for 1862. Dickens wrote several of the pieces.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Et al
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
A. Jules Goodman

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Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War (1898)

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A dozen stories about the poor folks and the rich folks of the South before and after the Civil War. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Joel Chandler Harris
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Uncommercial Traveller (1898)

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This is the Gadshill edition of sketches written during the author’s nighttime walks through London and contains one additional story not in the third edition. This American edition contains thirty-five essays. Read online at archive.org. Here ... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Harry Furniss

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The Golden Age (1899)

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This is a collection of stories and reminiscences of Kenneth Grahame’s childhood. This is the first edition with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. The plates were reproduced in half-tone as the publisher was not happy with the color reproducti... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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The Golden Age (1899)

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This is a collection of stories and reminiscences of Kenneth Grahame’s childhood. This is the first edition with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. The plates were reproduced in half-tone as the publisher was not happy with the color reproducti... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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Plantation Pageants (1899)

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Fourteen tales of plantation life after the Civil War. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Joel Chandler Harris
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Pussy and Doggy Tales (1899)

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A baker's dozen tales of cats and dogs. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): L. Kemp-Welch

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The River Syndicate and Other Stories (1899)

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Seven detective stories by the master of comic verse. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s): Harry C. Edwards

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Sporting Adventures of Charles Carrington, Esq. and Other Stories (1899)

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A collection of quintessential British sporting stories. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Theobald Raoul William
Et al
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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The Story of Little Black Sambo (1899)

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This is the first edition of the famous story of the little boy who outwits the tigers and has pancakes and butter as his reward. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s): Helen Bannerman

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