N. C. Wyeth
(1882 - 1945)
Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N.C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America’s greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner’s, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was his masterpiece and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter just when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, “Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.”
Bibliography
Adventures Of Richard Hannay (1919)
Richard Hannay is an ordinary fellow caught up in extraordinary events in England and Scotland. This volume contains The Thirty-nine Steps, Greenmantle and Mr. Standfast. Read online at Hathitrust.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1931)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.
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Anthology of Children’s Literature (1940)
An immense anthology with everything from Mother Goose to Eve Curie.
Read online at archive.org.
Carrie E. Scott
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1916)
An historical romance set during the Wars of the Roses. Read online at Hathitrust.
Botany Bay (1941)
Hugh Tallant, an American living in England is convicted of highway robbery and sent to the Australian penal colony in the ‘First Fleet.’
Read online at archive.org.
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Captain Blood His Odyssey (1922)
Doctor Peter Blood is taken up in the aftermath of Monmouth’s Rebellion in 1685 and transported as a convict-slave to Barbados. Based on a true story the book tells of his transformation into the dread pirate Captain Blood. Read online at Hathitrust.
Commodore Hornblower (1945)
Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower, R.N. leads a squadron of British naval vessels on a military and diplomatic mission in the Baltic Sea.
Read online at archive.org.
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1924)
In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife.
Read online at archive.org.
Deep Water Days (1929)
A collection of sea stories with illustrations by different artists.
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Drums (1928)
This is the story of Johnny Fraser and his part in the Revolutionary War in the South.
Read online at archive.org.
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1932)
Hans and Gretel Brinker’s father has been unable to work so they must help support the family, but they still have fun skating on the Dutch canals in winter.
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Jinglebob (1930)
This is an authentic tale of cattle ranching in the 1880’s.
Kidnapped (1913)
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.
Legends of Charlemagne (1924)
A collection of romances from medieval and renaissance Europe.
Marauders of the Sea (1935)
This is an anthology of pirate stories, real and fiction.
Michael Strogoff A Courier of the Czar (1927)
Unusual for Verne, this is a straight adventure story. Michael is sent by the Czar to warn the governor of Irkutsk of the presence of a traitor on his staff. On the Trans-Siberian railway Michael finds a wife. Unfortunately, at least in this translation, the book is very poorly written. The illustrations are worth seeing.
Read online at archive.org.
The Mysterious Island (1918)
During the American Civil War five prisoners of war and a dog escape from Richmond in a balloon and are driven across the country by a fierce storm and wrecked on a desert island in the Pacific. They proceed to make a home for themselves with all the modern conveniences. Better written, or at least translated, than many of Verne’s other novels. Read online at Hathitrust.
Rip Van Winkle (1921)
Out hunting, Rip plays at bowls with the men of the mountains and drinks too deeply of their liquor. Read online at archive.org.
Robinson Crusoe (1920)
First published in 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Most recent editions have been abridged and some have had the religious themes suppressed. It gave birth to the genre of Robinsonnade. Read online at archive.org.
A School History of the United States (1924)
A history of the United States for school children. Read online at archive.org.
Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
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