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Books in the American genre:

Bracebridge Hall (1896)

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An account of an American author’s time in Old England. Read for free online at Internet Archive: Volume 1, and Volume 2.... View More

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

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Cressy and Other Tales (1896)

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This is volume VII of the Standard Library Edition of the writings of Bret Harte. The title story is a romance of the gold fields. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Bret Harte
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Fox's Story (1896)

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Eight stories and pictures. Read online at Baldwin Library.

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

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The Jolly Chinee (1896)

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Six stories with pictures. Read online at Baldwin Library.

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

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The Supply at Saint Agatha’s (1896)

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A ‘supply’ is a Protestant clergyman who fills in for an absent pastor. In this short story, a heavenly figure fills in for a dying man. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith
Sarah Whitman
Marcia Oakes Woodbury

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“Captains Courageous” A Story of the Grand Banks (1897)

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Harvey Cheyne falls overboard from his liner on the Grand Banks and is picked up by a cod fisherman who proceeds to make a man of him. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): I. W. Taber

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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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Free to Serve, A Tale of Colonial New York (1897)

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An historical romance of New York in colonial times. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Emma Rayner
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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Merry Mice (1897)

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Four stories about mice. 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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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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The Hiawatha Primer (1898)

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An elementary school reader. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

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Our Brownie's ABC (1898)

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A Brownie ABC in color interspersed with humorous animal tales in verse. Read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): Palmer Cox
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox

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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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Wild Animals I Have Known (1898)

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Eight animal histories taken from life. The author’s purpose was to attempt to persuade the reader that wild things are worth preserving. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

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

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Boy Life on the Prairie (1899)

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An account of growing up on an Iowa farm shortly after the Civil War. Considered by many the author’s best work and one of the outstanding accounts of growing up in the Midwest in the nineteenth century. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hamlin Garland
Illustrator(s): Edwin Willard Deming

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Father Goose: His Book (1899)

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A collection of rhymes with illustrations. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at the University of Florida.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

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The Gentleman From Indiana (1899)

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John Harkness returns home to Indiana to run a newspaper, fight corruption and the Klan, and win a seat in Congress. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): None

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Lobo, Rag and Vixen (1899)

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Stories of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug and Vixen from Wild Animals I Have Known.

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

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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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