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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

The Peradventures of Private Pagett (1904)

Humorous misadventures of a member of His Britannic Majesty’s navy and army. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Major W. P. Drury
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904)

Peter Rabbit returns to the scene of his previous adventures to retrieve his clothes and almost comes to grief again. Read online at wikisource. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

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

The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904)

Two mice rampage through a doll’s house when they discover the food is only plaster, but are later repentant and clean up their mess. Read online at Gutenberg. Or at wikisource. Or at Hathitrust. Or at archive.org.... View More

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

Where Flies the Flag (1904)

A collection of British adventure stories.

Author(s): Henry Harbour
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Children’s Christmas Treasury of Things Old and New (1905)

An anthology of Christmas stories by various authors and illustrators.

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

The Friendly Town (1905)

This collection of essays on the joys of city life has endpapers by F. D. Bedford. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Lady Noggs Peeress (1905)

Lady Felicia Grandison, known to her friends as Noggs, despite her uncle the Prime Minister's attempts to make a lady of her, generally has her own way.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Lewis Baumer

Little Folks (1905)

This is the annual volume for 1905. Rackham contributed to this magazine from 1896 through 1908.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
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Mother Goose in Prose (1905)

The Wizard of Oz explains what really happened in twenty-two nursery rhymes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

Old Fashioned Tales (1905)

Nineteen stories from the earliest children’s literature. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Oswald Bastable and Others (1905)

A collection of short stories, four of which concern the Bastable children. Read online at archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock
H. R. Millar

The Pie and the Patty-Pan (1905)

Ribby the cat invites Dutchess the Pomeranian to a tea party. Read online at wikisource.

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

Pigs Is Pigs (1905)

Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company determines that guinea pigs should pay the same freight as hogs, not pets. The consignee refuses to pay and Mike ends up with a rapidly multiplying stock of guinea pigs.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Will Crawford

The Red Romance Book (1905)

A selection of stories from the old epics and some newer tales such as Don Quixote. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

Rip Van Winkle (1905)

A tale of Dutch New York and old Rip who played at bowls with Hendrick Hudson and his crew and slept for twenty years. This first edition has the plates all bound together at the back, as in the original issue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Read... View More

Author(s): Washington Irving
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Sunday Reading for the Young (1905)

This was a periodical with religious-themed content. It was published weeky and monthly numbers and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Gordon Browne
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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905)

Lucie has lost three handkerchiefs and a pinafore, but finds Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle has carefully laundered and starched them for her. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at wikisource. Or at Gutenberg.... View More

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

The Venture (1905)

A collection of essays by literary lights of the day. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

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

The Woggle-Bug Book (1905)

First appearing in The Land of Oz, the Woggle-Bug starred in a newspaper Sunday supplement, and a musical comedy. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Ike Morgan

Woodmyth and Fable (1905)

A collection of short myths or fables, most with a moral. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

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