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Jill the Reckless (1921)

Jill loses her money and her fiance, goes to America, makes some money, invests it in a play that fails, Wally Mason, who has loved her since she was a child, fixes it and she has a successful play and a husband. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

Josephine: Napoleon’s Empress (1925)

A biography of the first French empress.

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

The Journey of Johnny Rew (1955)

Orphaned by the war, Johnny learns that he might have family in the west of England and sets out in search of them.

Author(s): Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Joy in the Morning (1947)

Bertie Wooster is in the thick of it, fending off Florence Cray, shepherding an American millionaire, dodging PC Stilton Cheewright, burned out of his cottage by Edwin the Boy Scout, but with the help of Jeeves he wins through and ‘Joy Cometh i... View More

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

June (1925)

It is not known whether this illustration was part of a full calendar or was used in a magazine.

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

Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1886)

When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Kings in Exile (1908)

Stories of animals.

Read online at archive.com.

Author(s): Charles G. D. Roberts
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Lady Noggs Assists (1924)

Further adventures of Lady Felicia Grandison, Noggs to her friends.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Leave it to Psmith (1924)

Psmith leaves his teaching job and goes to Blandings Castle disguised as a Canadian minor poet to help Mike Jackson by stealing Lady Constance’s diamond necklace, and steals himself a wife. Read online at archive.org.

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

The Legacy (1950)

A group of English women and children led by Jean Paget are captured by the Japanese in Malaya during World War II and forced to march from village to village. Joe Harman, an Australian prisoner of war, aids them and is crucified by the Japanese for ... View More

Author(s): Neville Shute
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)

Hornblower ships as fifth lieutenant in HMS Renown with a mad captain on a mission to harry Spanish possession in the Caribbean. Was he pushed or did he fall?

Read online at archive.org

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

Little Boy Blue (1870)

A collection of nursery rhymes. Kate Greenaway did the illustrations on pages 11, 17, and 24. Read online at the University of Florida.

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

Little Leo (1951)

After his family sells its California ranch and returns to Italy, a little boy wears his Indian chief suit on the trip and in the Italian village, where he makes a great hit with all the children.

Author(s): Leo Politi
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Little Nugget (1914)

The Little Nugget is Ogden Ford, object of kidnappers employed by his mother, who is divorced from his father, who has also employed kidnappers to keep him away from his mother’s bad influence and then there is White, the school butler who is a... View More

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

The Little Warrior (1920)

Jill loses her money and her fiance, goes to America, makes some money, invests it in a play that fails, Wally Mason, who has loved her since she was a child, fixes it and she has a successful play and a husband. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

Live and Kicking Ned (1939)

The further adventures of Ned Mansell aboard a slave ship on the African coast. This volume actually contains two separate novels: Live Ned or The Reef-Tackle and Kicking Ned or The Skysail or The Trust-to-God.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Live and Kicking Ned (1939)

The further adventures of Ned Mansell aboard a slave ship on the African coast. This volume actually contains two separate novels: Live Ned or The Reef-Tackle and Kicking Ned or The Skysail or The Trust-to-God.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Lost Endeavour (1917)

Charles Harding is shanghaied and sold as an indentured servant in America, then escapes to the Carribbean. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Louis XIV: King of France and Navarre (1928)

A biography of the long reigning ‘Sun King’ of France, builder of Versailles.

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

Love Among the Chickens: Revised (1921)

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge makes his first appearance in this novel. He persuades his friend Jeremy Garnet, an Old Wrykynian, to join him and his wife in a chicken ranch. Jeremy meets Phyllis Derrick on the train to Lyme Regis and sets out to ... View More

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

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