Fiction Collection (page 5)

Scene from Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1852-1853. Artist: Hablot Knight Browne
Scene from Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1852-1853. This novel contains a satire on the iniquities of the Court of Chancery, and the misery and ruin it brought to those it was supposed to protect

Scene from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, 1841. Artist: Hablot Knight Browne
Scene from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, 1841. In their wanderings, Little Nell and her grandfather encounter and are befriended by Codlin and Short, the Punch and Judy

Scene from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, (London c1870). Artist: Charles Green
Scene from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, (London c1870). Joe Gargery, the gentle giant, is provoked into violence in his smithy

Scene from Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, 1838-1839. Artist: Hablot Knight Browne
Scene from Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, 1838-1839. The theatrical emotion of Mr Vincent Crummles, the provincial actor manager who employed Nicholas for a while after his flight

Scene from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1892. Artist: John Dawson Watson
Scene from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1892. This 18th century memoir novel was inspired by the story of the Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721). Robinson Crusoe ill with ague

Scene from Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot, 1883. Artist: Robert Brown
Scene from Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot, 1883. This series of three tales included The Sad Fortunes of the Rev

Scene from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, c1880. Artist: Walter-James Allen
Scene from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, c1880. Maggie Tulliver, having cut off her hair and run away from home, is offered a share of the gypsies stew

Title page of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, c1880. Artist: Walter-James Allen
Title page of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1819-1880), c1880. The vignette shows Dorlcote Mill, the home of the Tulliver family. From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. (London, c1880)

Title page of Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. Artist: William Small
Title page of Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. The vignette on the title page shows The Hall Farm, home of farmer Martin Poyser and of his orphaned niece Hetty Sorrel

Scene from Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. Artist: William Small
Scene from Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon and justified his name. Adam, the village carpenter, in the workshop

Splendid Jem amongst the convicts in the Naval Dock Yard at Chatham, Kent, 1821. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Splendid Jem, once a dashing hero in the Metropolis, recognised by Tom amongst the convicts in the Naval Dock Yard at Chatham, 1821

Sherlock Holmes, fictional detective. Holmes, the detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) in the 1890s, as portrayed by the early English film star, Clive Brook (1887-1974)

Scene from The Adventure of the Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1893. Artist: Sidney E Paget
Scene from The Adventure of the Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1893. Illustration by Sidney E Paget, the first artist to draw Sherlock Holmes

PG Wodehouse, English novelist and writer, 1937. Born in Guilford, Surrey, Pelham Grenville (PG) Wodehouse (1881-1975) was the creator of Bertie Wooster, Jeeves and Lord Emsworth

E (Edward) Phillips Oppenheim, English novelist, 1937. Oppenheim (1866-1946), specialised in stories of espionage and international intrigue. Cigarette card from the Famous British Authors series

Scene from Jane Austens Persuasion, 1897. Artist: Hugh Thomson
Scene from Jane Austens Persuasion, 1897. Austens last novel, Persuasion was published in 1818. In this scene, Captain Wentworth gives Anne Elliot his note of declaration

Scene from Now, Voyager, Warner Brothers film, 1942. Artist: Irving Rapper
Scene from Now, Voyager, Warner Brothers, 1942. Still of the stars of the film, Bette Davis and Paul Henreid. Producer: Hal B Rogers. Director: Irving Rapper

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886. Treasure Island, Stevensons (1850-1894) classic adventure novel for children was first serialised as The Sea Cook: or

Cover of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886. Treasure Island, Stevensons (1850-1894) classic adventure novel for children was first serialised as The Sea Cook: or

Gulliver in Lilliput. Lemuel Gulliver, set ashore after a mutiny, regains consciousness and finds himself a prisoner of the Lilliputians

Lemuel Gulliver, set ashore after a mutiny, finds himself in kingdom of the Houyhnhns. He discusses mankind with his master

Scene from The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen, c1879. Karen being given her first pair of red shoes by the shoemakers wife on the day her mother dies

Scene from Old St Pauls by William Harrison Ainsworth, 1855. Artist: John Franklin
Scene from Old Saint Pauls by William Harrison Ainsworth, 1855. A romantic historical novel set in 1665 and 1666 during the Plague of London and the Fire of London

Title page of Old Saint Pauls by William Harrison Ainsworth, 1855. Artist: Hablot Knight Browne
Title page of Old Saint Pauls by William Harrison Ainsworth, 1855. A romantic historical novel set in 1665 and 1666 during the plague of London and the Fire of London

Scene from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolph Erich Raspe, c1850. Munchausen, recovering his silver casket which had bounced up to the moon

Scene from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1849-1850. Artist: Hablot Knight Browne
Scene from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1849-1850. The orphaned David Copperfield, having run away from his poverty-ridden London existence

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), creator of the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle did experimetns in psychical research

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. The space capsule Columbiad orbiting close to the Moon. From De la Terre a la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) by Jules Verne

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