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A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandish society of ape-, tree- and lizardmen, red-, white-, yellowmen, brains on legs, strange bastions and...
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3) - Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adventures on the way. (Alex Foster)...
The War in the Air - H. G. Wells
The War in the Air - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
War in the Air was written during a prolific time in H. G. Wells's writing career. Having withdrawn from British politics to spend more time on his own ideas, he published twelve books between 1901 and 1911, including this one. while many British...
The Make-Believe Man - Richard Harding Davis
The Make-Believe Man - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer "Patience" for his holiday, and when one has a man with such a vivid imagination like Joseph Forbes Kinney as a travel companion, who seems to find adventures at every...
At the Earth's Core - Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
This is the first book in the Pellucidar series. Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. The stories initially involve the adventures of mining heir David Innes and his...
Burning Daylight - Jack London
Burning Daylight - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed...
Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest - Stewart Edward White
Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest - Stewart Edward White
- Author: Stewart Edward White
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor named Galen Albret took his position seriously. Free traders, or those who dared try to do their trading...
Short Science Fiction Collection 057 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 057 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Heart of Darkness (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part...
Dr. Nikola’s Experiment - Guy Boothby
Dr. Nikola’s Experiment - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Guy Boothby's fourth novel of five about the svelte mysterious anti-hero Dr Nikola sees him progress further on his search for immortality. Here we find him deep in the wilds of Northumbria conducting an experiment of longevity and restoration of...
The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery - Paul Leicester FORD
The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery - Paul Leicester FORD
- Author: Paul Leicester FORD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robbed somewhere in the Arizona desert. Various adventures involve this young superintendent. Romance is provided...
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories - Robert BARR
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories - Robert BARR
- Author: Robert BARR
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific author - publishing a book a year...
The Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
The Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
The enigmatic smile of The Laughing Cavalier of Franz Hals' famous painting invites you to wonder just what mischievousness hides behind that face. In this novel, inspired by the painting, Baroness Orczy recounts the adventures of an ancestor of her...
The Notting Hill Mystery - Charles Warren ADAMS
The Notting Hill Mystery - Charles Warren ADAMS
- Author: Charles Warren ADAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of "The Notting Hill Mystery", thought to be the first full length detective novel in English.The story first appeared...
The Hand of Fu-Manchu - Sax Rohmer
The Hand of Fu-Manchu - Sax Rohmer
- Author: Sax Rohmer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Further adventures of Nayland Smith and Doctor Petrie as they continue their battles against the evil genius, Dr Fu-Manchu. (summary by Elaine Twiddle)...
The Mabinogion, Volume 3 - Anonymous
The Mabinogion, Volume 3 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction
This is final volume of the Mabinogion. As with the other volumes, these Arthurian tales are translated from Welsh manuscripts and largely represent an earlier and more pagan period....
The Hound From the North - Ridgwell CULLUM
The Hound From the North - Ridgwell CULLUM
- Author: Ridgwell CULLUM
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Gold! Opium! Love! Murder! Revenge! Prairie intrigue at its best:Prudence helps her mother run a ranch in southern Manitoba. Her brother has been hunting gold in the Yukon, but he returns home penniless and troubled, and accompanied by a...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This story deals with the obvious fact that we humans are split, dual. We have urges to do the 'right' thing, to be honorable and wise, but we also frequently fail to follow these better instincts and follow instead urges to do dishonorable, evil...
The Vicomte De Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas
The Vicomte De Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is the last of the...
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another. Set in late 12C England and in Palestine with Richard Cœur-de-Lion at the Crusades, it's another ripping...
The House by the Lock - Alice Muriel Williamson
The House by the Lock - Alice Muriel Williamson
- Author: Alice Muriel Williamson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but what leads Noel Stanton on a quest to...
Flower of the North - James Oliver Curwood
Flower of the North - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he thought he knew. However, tucked in among the rocks and hills lies an unfamiliar outpost which he's been told is...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English translation) who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel (Harry),...
Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The children's adventure story covers Gulliver's visits to the lands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. (Summary by Laurie...
King Arthur and His Knights - Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
King Arthur and His Knights - Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
- Author: Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian legends about Sir Lancelot, the Knights of the Round Table, Queen Guinevere, and the search for the Holy...
The Wanderer's Necklace - H. Rider Haggard
The Wanderer's Necklace - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Wanderer’s Necklace is classic Haggard, filled with adventure, intrigue, and steadfastness in the face of overwhelming obstacles. “The Editor" recalls his past life as Olaf, an 8th century Norseman. Olaf opens the ancient tomb of the Wanderer...
Tarzan the Untamed - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Untamed - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This book follows Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar chronologically. The action is set during World War I. While away from his plantation home in East Africa, invading German troops destroy it and kill his wife Jane and the Waziri warrior Wasimbu who is...
Won by Crime - A. Frank PINKERTON
Won by Crime - A. Frank PINKERTON
- Author: A. Frank PINKERTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Originally included with the published edition of Dyke Darell, this is an unrelated novella. Portuguese Viceroy to Goa, Don Garcia brought his daughter and nephew to the wild island. Adventure and melodrama ensue! (Summary by Sibella Denton)....
The Great Secret - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Great Secret - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
English gentleman Hardross Courage has a good life. He has all the money he needs, enjoys sports and hunting, manages the family estate, and in general leads a satisfying life. On a trip to London to participate in a cricket match, Hardross is...
The Valley of the Giants - Peter B. KYNE
The Valley of the Giants - Peter B. KYNE
- Author: Peter B. KYNE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in his chosen land the pioneer leader in the gigantic task of hewing a path for civilization was to know the bliss...
Rookwood - William Harrison Ainsworth
Rookwood - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A rich and complex Gothic-Romance centring on the murky deeds of an ancient family. It is a wonderfully atmospheric piece that combines narrative, poetry, song, and descriptive writing to great effect. The character of Dick Turpin that we know today...
Ramona (version 2) - Helen Hunt Jackson
Ramona (version 2) - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Set in Old California in the wake of the Mexican-American War, Ramona is two stories at once. It is the story of the love between a part-Native American orphan girl, Ramona, and Alessandro, a young Indian sheepherder. It is also the story of racial...
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel. A great adventure, set during the French Revolution. (Summary by Karen Savage)...
The Adventures of Gerard - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Gerard - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrecting him some ten years later. The swashbuckling, eponymous hero, Etienne Gerard, is one of Napoleon's...
Pariah Planet (version 2) - Murray Leinster
Pariah Planet (version 2) - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. (Summary by Gutenberg text)...
Rescue Dog of the High Pass - Jim Kjelgaard
Rescue Dog of the High Pass - Jim Kjelgaard
- Author: Jim Kjelgaard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Animals & Nature
Jim Kjelgaard has long wanted to tell the story of the gallant dogs who have gone out with the monks of St. Bernard Hospice to rescue travelers lost in the deep snows of the Swiss mountain passes. Unable to find the facts, he decided to reconstruct...
The Time Machine (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Surely the Time Traveler threw great dinner parties! His guests were treated to a once-in-forever trial of a miniature time machine - an exquisite miniature that acted so flawlessly as to appear to be stage magic. That his guests did not believe the...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave,...
The Lost House - Richard Harding Davis
The Lost House - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is an appeal for help, found in the gutter in a dark...
Tales from the Works of G.A.Henty - G. A. Henty
Tales from the Works of G.A.Henty - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
George Alfred Henty was an English newspaper correspondent who became a prolific author of, predominantly, adventure stories for boys. Most were based on true historical events. In this volume, published posthumously, we are presented with thirteen...
