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 * Wings (1927) by John Monk Saunders
 * Inspired the first movie to win the Academy award for best picture: Wings (film).
 * Scans at IA
 * No transcription on Wikisource.

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 * The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) by Lord Dunsany
 * The OG of high fantasy.
 * Scans at Commons
 * No transcription on Wikisource.
 * Wikisource author page with red link to title: Lord Dunsany.


 * She Stoops to Conquer
 * Short comedy play.
 * Transcription in main namespace without scans.
 * Probable scans of transcription at Internet Archive published 1850.
 * Best scans of the original 1773 publication at Internet Archive.


 * Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
 * Fully validated, but several scannos on read through.
 * I wouldn't say it's better than Anne of Green Gables, it's too choppy and rushed, but it is less melancholy.


 * Sonny (1923) by Virginia Brightman
 * Scans at Commons
 * No transcription or eBook.


 * The Swiss Family Robinson (Godwin)
 * The original 1816 translation. The only unabridged, faithful translation of the original 1812 German text.
 * Comments on translations
 * Scans: Volume 1, Volume 2


 * The Door of the Double Dragon: a Romance of the China of Yesterday and To-day (1920)
 * Scans: Internet Archive
 * No transcription/ebook.


 * The River Road: a Novel of New England Seacoast Folk (1923)
 * Scans: Internet Archive
 * No transcription/ebook.


 * Chronicles of Avonlea
 * Best cover


 * Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
 * Fully validated. 125 pages.
 * Recommended by Charlie.


 * Adelaide Anne Procter
 * Poetry. “We always may be what we might have been.”
 * Google Books. Find better scan at Internet Archive


 * Frank Stockton
 * Mentioned by Theodore Roosevelt in Through the Brazilian Wilderness. A dog was name “Cartucho” after a character in a book by Stockton.


 * Oliver Herford
 * Verse quoted in Through the Brazilian Wilderness: