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Fiction - Short Story Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1900)

The Autograph Edition, limited to 500 sets, includes 135 plates. The frontispiece in each volume is in color and also in black and white, the latter signed by the artist. The Old Manse Edition has only 100 plates but was printed from the same type an... View More

The Dolliver Romance and Kindred Tales (1900)

This volume of Hawthorne’s collected works includes shorter pieces as well as Septimus Felton. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

The Five Little Maidens (1900)

A collection of brief stories and poems. Read online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

Goody Two Shoes (1900)

This is a later reissue edition. A tale of two orphans and how they eventually prospered. Read for Free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900)

A collection of fifteen stories and essays. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

A New Wonderland (1900)

A collection of stories that take place in Phunnyland. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

Sunday Reading for the Young (1900)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
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The Works of Charles Dickens (1900)

This thirty volume American collected edition was in print for many years and can usually be bought very inexpensively. The illustrations are not the originals and are uncredited.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

The Animal Story Book (1901)

One of twenty volumes of the Young Folks’ Library, Thomas Bailey Aldrich editor-in-chief. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

The Book of Dragons (1901)

A collection of eight stories about dragons. Read online at Gutenberg.org.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. Granville Fell
H. R. Millar

Fable Nook and Story Book (1901)

A collection of stories and poems.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane
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Lives of the Hunted (1901)

The life-stories of five wild animals. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Mother Goose in Prose (1901)

The Wizard of Oz tells the real story behind twenty-two nursery rhymes.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

Nine Unlikely Tales for Children (1901)

Nine short stories including ‘The Cockatoucan,’ 'Melisande, or, Long and Short Division,’ and ‘Whereyouwanttogoto.’ Read online at gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar
Et al

Sunday Reading for the Young (1901)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Et al

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901)

This is the first privately-printed edition with black-and-white only illustrations. Read online at wikisource.

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

The Book of Nature Myths (1902)

An elementary school reader featuring fifty-four nature myths, mainly from Native American sources. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Florence Holbrook
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

The Book of Romance (1902)

A collection of romances, chiefly from the Arthurian cycle. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
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Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

Dream Days (1902)

This is the second volume of Kenneth Grahame’s reminiscences of childhood. It includes the well known story of The Reluctant Dragon. The illustrations by Maxfield Parrish were in color and so printed in the periodical printing in The Illustrate... View More

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

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