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The Night Train (1996)

Meet the king who must rescue night, the children who create a mighty slide, and the mad professor's daughter.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Nimp and Old Noah (1934)

An illustration from an as-yet unlocated source.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Nimp Comes to Life (1934)

Two illustrations for a story about a statue that comes to life. The source has not been located.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

No Rest for Botts: Earthworms Make the World Go Round (1951)

Master tractor salesman Alexander Botts has been discharged from the army and is back in action.

Author(s): William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

No Thoroughfare (1867)

Based on a stage play co-written with Wilkie Collins, this is the story of two orphans given the same name and the search for a missing heir. The title page by Bedford; frontis by Goodman. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Wilkie Collins
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Unknown

"No Use" Says Father Time … (1927)

This advertisement for asbestos cement shingles appeared in Country Life magazine in 1927.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1926)

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): Unknown

Not George Washington (1907)

An autobiographical novel about a young Englishman breaking into the literary world in London. Read online at gutenbeg.org.

Author(s): Herbert Westbrook
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Nurse Cavell (1933)

A play based on the life of Edith Cavell, a British nurse working in Belgium during World War I who was shot by a German military tribunal for assisting allied soldiers to escape to neutral Holland.

Old Times on the Mississippi (1876)

Twain’s memories of his prewar time spent as an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi River. It later was used as the first part of Life on the Mississippi. Includes an additional story: A Literary Nightmare. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Arch... View More

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

One Wonderful Week (1927)

Bank clerk Harold Altridge enters on a week of cataclysm after cataclysm -- a phantasmagoria of adventure, romance and mystery -- that leaves him half dead and the reader holding his sides with laughter.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Out of the Silent Planet (1943)

While on a walking tour Professor Ransom is shanghaied on an interplanetary voyage to Mars where he learns that his conception of the how the world is organized is very far from the truth.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Paid Piper (1924)

The adventures of a tramp among high and low.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Payment Deferred (1926)

William Marble did the murder. The question is, will fate let him get away with it?

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Payment Deferred (1942)

William Marble did the murder, the question is, will fate let him get away with it?

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Perelandra: A Novel (1944)

Professor Ransom is summoned to Venus where he witnesses - and takes part in - a re-enactment of the temptation in the Garden of Eden.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Peter’s Room (1961)

Over the Christmas holidays the younger Marlows and Patrick Merrick enter the land of Gondal and find more than they expected.

Author(s): Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Petticoat Court (1930)

A young woman from New Orleans travels to France during the Civil War.

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)

Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab, and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Arthur Ransome
Unknown

Pigs Have Wings (1952)

The Shropshire Agricultural Show is coming up and it is pig stealing time as Gally grabs Sir Gregory Parsloe’s Queen of Matchingham and George Cyril Wellbeloved, former pigman to Lord Emsworth, now in Parsloe’s employ goes for the Empress... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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