Action & Adventure Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
'Farewell, Nikola' - Guy Boothby
'Farewell, Nikola' - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Farewell Nikola is the fifth and last novel of the Dr Nikola series. We are reacquainted with Richard "Dick" Hatteras, former South Seas adventurer and Roustabout who clashed with Dr Nicola in βA Bid for Fortune". He is now Sir Richard Hatteras and...
On the Yukon Trail - Roy J. Snell
On the Yukon Trail - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
Curlie Carson and Joe Marion are chasing a radio outlaw across the frozen Alaska territory. It should be a simple dogsled trip, especially with hints from the mysterious βwhisperer.β But wolves, blizzards, reindeer rustlers, and more say otherwise....
Behind the Green Door - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Behind the Green Door - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to...
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)...
To London Town - Arthur Morrison
To London Town - Arthur Morrison
- Author: Arthur Morrison
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Written to complement Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago, and the final book in the trilogy, To London Town examines the mean streets and tough lives of the inhabitants of the East End of London. The novel described in graphic detail...
The Thing in the Attic - James B. Blish
The Thing in the Attic - James B. Blish
- Author: James B. Blish
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Honath the Pursemaker is a heretic. He doesnβt believe the stories in the Book of Laws which claims giants created his tree-dwelling race. He makes his opinion known and is banished with his infidel friends to the floor of the jungle where dangers...
Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville
Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique β but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the bookβs eponymous white whale. But...
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The novel picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul d'Arnot. On the ship he becomes...
A Cabinet Secret - Guy Boothby
A Cabinet Secret - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Witty spy adventure set during the Boer Wars of the late 19th Century. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
Beth GΓͺlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound - William Robert Spencer
Beth GΓͺlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound - William Robert Spencer
- Author: William Robert Spencer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Beth GΓͺlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound by William Robert Spencer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 8, 2012. William Robert Spencer, English poet and wit, was the younger son of Lord...
The Broken Vase and Other Stories - Anonymous
The Broken Vase and Other Stories - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Broken Vase and Other Stories; for Children and Youth, Compiled by a Teacher FITCHBURG: PUBLISHED BY S. & C. SHEPLEY. 1847. WM. J. MERRIAM, PRINTER, FITCHBURG. (Summary from the Frontspiece)...
The Son of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Son of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the fourth of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his encounter with Tarzan in the third novel and wants to even the score. (adapted from Wikipedia)...
The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Science Fiction
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into...
Whither Thou Goest - William Le Queux
Whither Thou Goest - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a βpenniless nobody,β and announced that he would marry her against all opposition. He determined to separate the lovers; to which end he persuaded an influential friend in...
Doctor Ox's Experiment - Jules Verne
Doctor Ox's Experiment - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves at an extraordinarily tranquil pace. Doctor Ox has offered to light the town with a new gas, but actually has...
The Peril Finders - George Manville Fenn
The Peril Finders - George Manville Fenn
- Author: George Manville Fenn
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are failing. A prospector arrives and tells stories of ancient cities where there is a lot of gold. He then dies. Some...
Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack - Frank Benton
Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack - Frank Benton
- Author: Frank Benton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Frank Benton, himself a wealthy rancher, provides a series of first-hand sketches of cowboy life of the late 19th and early 20th century from stories gathered from the "sidetrack." These were working cowpunchers with a subculture of their own who...
Little Women (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to love the four sisters as they grow and mature into young women. This book has characters any girl can relate to...
The Purple Flame - Roy J. Snell
The Purple Flame - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Two years after the conclusion of "The Blue Envelope", Marian is crossing the frozen Alaskan tundra alone with three reindeer in order to greet her unknown cousin in Nome. Patsy has traveled from Kentucky. Kentucky! How will she adapt to a frigid...
Tom of the Raiders - Austin Bishop
Tom of the Raiders - Austin Bishop
- Author: Austin Bishop
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Young Adult historical fiction of a young man joining the Union Army and taking part in the Great Locomotive Chase. (Summary by Brett Downey)...
Melmoth The Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth The Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
- Author: Charles Robert Maturin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, he wanders around the world in search of someone who would replace him and lift his curse. It is known for its...
The Splendid Wayfaring - John Neihardt
The Splendid Wayfaring - John Neihardt
- Author: John Neihardt
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Modern (19th C)
Quote:"In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansion of our nation beyond the Missouri. I have made Jedediah Smith the central figure of my story, for of all...
The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Dame Elspeth is kept in a tower after the death of her husband. The widow of the Baron of Avenel and her daughter seek safety with Elspeth in her tower. Hearing the baroness's deathbed confession, Father Philip notices her Bible. As he carries it to...
The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. It was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the "white Raja" of Sarawak...
Hoofbeats on the Turnpike - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Hoofbeats on the Turnpike - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to...
Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman - E. W. Hornung
Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also published as The Black Mask) is the second collection of stories in the Raffles series. After the dark turn of events at the end of The Gift of the Emperor, Bunny's done his time and, his...
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas - Herman Melville
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which...
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
βTHE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE; Being the Second and Last Part OF HIS LIFE, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe.β After the death of his wife, Robinson Crusoe is overcome by the old...
The Man from Glengarry - Ralph Connor
The Man from Glengarry - Ralph Connor
- Author: Ralph Connor
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. The Man from Glengarry was his most popular and accomplished work. Immediately after its publication...
The Golden Bough - George Gibbs
The Golden Bough - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
The eyes of the LΓ©gionnaire, now grown accustomed to the glow of the light, made sure that the figure had not moved, nor was aware of his silent and furtive approach. Two plans of action suggested themselves, one to move behind the foliage to the...
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' - William Hope Hodgson
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' - William Hope Hodgson
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Eighteenth-century sailors adrift in a lifeboat encounter strange lands and weird creatures in their search for home. A creepy tale of nautical adventure. - Summary by Jason Mills...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
Come and hear the strange tail of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title of the book implies). Hank, or...
Murder Madness - Murray Leinster
Murder Madness - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. So Bell, of the secret "Trade," plunges into South America after The Master--the mighty,...
Red Men And White - Owen Wister
Red Men And White - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and manners, and a little through the...
Born Again - Alfred Lawson
Born Again - Alfred Lawson
- Author: Alfred Lawson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have...
The Rulers of the Lakes - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Rulers of the Lakes - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
"The Rulers of the Lakes" is a complete story, but it is also the third volume of the French and Indian War Series, following "The Hunters of the Hills" and "The Shadow of the North." Robert Lennox, Tayoga, Willet, and all the important characters...
The Spirit of the Border - Zane Grey
The Spirit of the Border - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters and incidents in the Ohio Valley in the late 18th century, especially with the foundation of Gnaddenhutten, a...
The Caves of Fear - Harold L. Goodwin
The Caves of Fear - Harold L. Goodwin
- Author: Harold L. Goodwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Entry in the Rick Brant series by Goodwin under the name John Blaine, which began in 1947. 'Rick and Scotty travel to the Himalayas again, this time to stop nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands.' says Wikipedia. - Summary by...
The Flaming Forest - James Oliver Curwood
The Flaming Forest - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
A tale of mystery, romance, and honor, as David Carrigan must choose between his duty as an officer of the law and a girl who holds him captive; a girl who Carrigan thinks he may have fallen in love with no less! Who is this strange girl Jean-Marie,...
Jock of the Bushveld - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
Jock of the Bushveld - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Author: Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Animals
Jock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir Percy Fitzpatrick when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider. The book tells of Fitzpatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, during the...
