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Publication Date

1879 - 1898
(years)

Genre

  • Adventure stories (21) + -
  • Sea stories (14) + -
  • Detective and mystery stories (8) + -
  • School and sports stories (4) + -
  • Spy stories (3) + -
  • Bildungsromans (1) + -
  • Romance fiction (1) + -

Series

  • Five cent wide awake library (50) + -

Publisher

  • Tousey, Frank (47) + -
  • Tousey & Small (3) + -

Topic

  • Brigands and robbers (12) + -
  • Pirates (8) + -
  • Prisoners (4) + -
  • Kidnapping (3) + -
  • Rescues (3) + -
  • Revenge (3) + -
  • Royal houses (3) + -
  • Schoolboys (3) + -
  • Sea monsters (3) + -
  • Aboriginal Australians (2) + -
  • Arabs (2) + -
  • Blacks (2) + -
  • Chinese (2) + -
  • Investigation (2) + -
  • Murder (2) + -
  • Robbery (2) + -
  • Robbery investigation (2) + -
  • Treasure troves (2) + -
  • Voyages and travels (2) + -
  • Abduction (1) + -
  • Bank robberies (1) + -
  • Boarding schools (1) + -
  • Bushrangers (1) + -
  • Caravans (1) + -
  • Carlists (1) + -
  • Castaways (1) + -
  • College students (1) + -
  • Counterfeits and counterfeiting (1) + -
  • Escaped prisoners (1) + -
  • Gems (1) + -
  • Gold (1) + -
  • Greeks (1) + -
  • Idols and images (1) + -
  • Indigenous peoples (1) + -
  • Italians (1) + -
  • Kings and rulers (1) + -
  • Missing persons (1) + -
  • Muslims (1) + -
  • Mutiny (1) + -
  • Nihilism (1) + -
  • Orphans (1) + -
  • Patagonians (1) + -
  • Pearl divers (1) + -
  • Practical jokes (1) + -
  • Precious stones (1) + -
  • Secret societies (1) + -
  • Shipwrecks (1) + -
  • Slave traders (1) + -
  • Submarines (Ships) (1) + -
  • Tiger hunting (1) + -
  • Worship (1) + -
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Character

  • Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character) (31) + -
  • Harkaway, Jack, Jr. (Fictitious character) (12) + -
  • Lightheart, Dick (Fictitious character) (4) + -
  • University of Oxford (2) + -
  • Nemo, Captain (Fictitious character) (1) + -

Place

  • Australia (5) + -
  • Greece (4) + -
  • Atlantic Ocean Region (3) + -
  • England (3) + -
  • Pacific Area (3) + -
  • Turkey (3) + -
  • Italy (2) + -
  • Naples (Italy) (2) + -
  • Oxford (England) (2) + -
  • Vesuvius (Italy) (2) + -
  • China (1) + -
  • Colombo (Sri Lanka) (1) + -
  • France (1) + -
  • Kolkata (India) (1) + -
  • London (England) (1) + -
  • Mecca (Saudi Arabia) (1) + -
  • Nile River Valley (1) + -
  • Paris (France) (1) + -
  • Red Sea (1) + -
  • Russia (1) + -
  • Siberia (Russia) (1) + -
  • Spain (1) + -
  • Sudan (1) + -
  • Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile) (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (50) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (45) + -
  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (5) + -

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  • (-) = Hemyng, Bracebridge, 1841-1901

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Young Jack Harkaway fighting the pirates of the Red Sea
Young Jack Harkaway in Arabia
Young Jack Harkaway in the wilds of Siberia
Young Jack Harkaway and the dervishes of the Nile
Young Jack Harkaway in the land of tigers
Young Jack Harkaway and the pearl divers of Ceylon
Young Jack Harkaway and the idols of gold
Dick Lightheart at sea
Dick Lightheart
Young Jack Harkaway and the counterfeiters
Young Jack Harkaway and the Arabs
Young Jack Harkaway in Turkey
Young Jack Harkaway in Spain
Tinker's man, Bogey
Young Jack Harkaway and his boy tinker
Jack Harkaway and the bushrangers
Jack Harkaway and the convicts
Jack Harkaway in Australia
Jack Harkaway, the avenger
Jack Harkaway, the magician
Jack Harkaway to the rescue
Jack Harkaway's peril
Jack Harkaway on Magic Island
Jack Harkaway's triumph
Jack Harkaway and his son homeward bound
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