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Books in the Humorous genre:

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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More Beasts (for Worse Children): Verses (1897)

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A second collection of humorous verses by the English master in the tradition of Struwwelpeter. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s): Basil T. Blackwood

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Mother Hubbard Her Picture Book (1897)

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Also titled Walter Crane’s Picture Books Vol. II, this omnibus contains The Three Bears, The Absurd ABC and Old Mother Hubbard. Read for Free online at Internet Archive.... View More

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

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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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Persuasion (1897)

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Persuasion is considered by many to be its author’s greatest work. Anne Elliot ‘with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character,which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding’ is burdened with a father and... View More

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock

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The Arkansaw Bear (1898)

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Runaway Bocephus meets Horatio the fiddle-playing bear in the woods and teaches him the rest of his song as they take to the road. This is the first edition, identified by a misprint of T for B at the start of chapter 2. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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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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Emma (1898)

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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, fancies her self a match-maker, but after her first effort, she can’t seem to do anything right.

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock

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Fables for the Frivolous (1898)

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These humorous verse renderings of the familiar Aesop fables are ideal for memorization. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell

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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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Mansfield Park (1898)

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Sir Thomas Bertram considers he is bestowing a great favor on Fanny Price when he takes her into his home, but in the end finds himself in her debt.

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock

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The Monkey That Would Not Kill (1898)

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A collection of stories about a monkey that could not be killed -- shot, hanged, thrown into the sea with a stone around his neck, blown up with dynamite -- but not killed. Read online at Hathitrust. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Henry Drummond
Illustrator(s): Louis Wain

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Northanger Abbey (1898)

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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): C. E. Brock

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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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Pride and Prejudice (1898)

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When Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy refuses to dance with her, Elizabeth Bennett is confirmed in her prejudice that he is filled with pride. On further acquaintance she is forced to revise her opinion.

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock

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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
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Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
A. Jules Goodman

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Lightning Sketches for ‘The House That Jack Built’ (1899)

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Preliminary sketches for the R. Caldecott Picture Book.

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

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A Moral Alphabet (In Words of from One to Seven Syllables) (1899)

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A third collection of humorous verses by the English master in the tradition of Struwwelpeter. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s): Basil T. Blackwood

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The Pelican Chorus and Other Verses (1899)

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A collection of nonsense poems. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Edward Lear
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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