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The Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air - Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
In the final months of the American Civil War five Northerners find themselves trapped in the Southern capital of Richmond. They conceive of a plan to escape with a baloon kept nearby.However, not all goes as planned and as a powerful gale surprises...
Stolen Souls - William Le Queux
Stolen Souls - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of 14 of William le Queux' best mystery stories. (Summary by Carolin)...
The Book of All Power - Edgar Wallace
The Book of All Power - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace is set in London at the beginning, and then the action moves to Russia. The story covers the period from 1910 to 1919 during which the Russian Revolution takes place and this results in drastic changes to...
The Pawns Count - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Pawns Count - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
"I am for England and England only," John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted. "I am for Japan and Japan only," Nikasti, the Jap, insisted. "I am for Germany first and America afterwards," Oscar Fischer, the German-American pronounced. "I am for...
Doctor Syn - Russell THORNDIKE
Doctor Syn - Russell THORNDIKE
- Author: Russell THORNDIKE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh is the first in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike and inspired a Disney movie called the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh starring Patrick Patrick McGoohan. In this story we are introduced to the...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology and engineering that will thrust us from the Antarctic...
The Gold Hunters (Borthwick) - John David BORTHWICK
The Gold Hunters (Borthwick) - John David BORTHWICK
- Author: John David BORTHWICK
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist J. D. Borthwick. The first edition, published in 1857 was called Three Years in California. Reprints have...
Wylder's Hand - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
Wylder's Hand - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people involved do not seem to like the idea. Before the wedding, Mark disappears. But to where? And how will the people...
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
King Solomonβs Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the legendary...
The Danger Trail - James Oliver Curwood
The Danger Trail - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through some of the most trecherous terrain in North America. He would soon learn that it was not only the terrain that...
Rebels of the Red Planet - Charles L. FONTENAY
Rebels of the Red Planet - Charles L. FONTENAY
- Author: Charles L. FONTENAY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on...
The Mutiny of the Elsinore - Jack London
The Mutiny of the Elsinore - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of βwooden ships and iron menβ are long over. The Elsinore is a four-masted iron sailing...
The Moon Maid - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Moon Maid - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Sabotage accidentally takes Earth's first manned interplanetary expedition to the Moon, where a sublunar adventure ensues, involving two intelligent species and a good deal of fighting as well as romance. The perceptive reader will perceive the...
The Spy - Richard Harding Davis
The Spy - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Mr. Crosby is a high-ranking official known to be often entrusted with secret government missions. But when he finds himself in Valencia, that's entirely an accident and has nothing to do with any such mission at all. But his reputation does not...
The Rover Boys on the Ocean - Arthur M. Winfield
The Rover Boys on the Ocean - Arthur M. Winfield
- Author: Arthur M. Winfield
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Adventures of Maya the Bee - Waldemar BONSELS
The Adventures of Maya the Bee - Waldemar BONSELS
- Author: Waldemar BONSELS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Action & Adventure
The Adventures of Maya the Bee is an exciting tale for children of all ages. Themes of growth and development of courage and wisdom are found, as well as the extreme joy and satisfaction that Maya experiences in the beauty of creation and all...
The Night Operator - Frank L. Packard
The Night Operator - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A collection of ten railroad short stories: "And so these are the stories of the Hill Division and of the men who wrought upon it; the stories of those days when it was young and in the making; the stories of the days when Carleton, 'Royal'...
Juju - Murray Leinster
Juju - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa. - Summary by david wales...
The Covered Wagon - Emerson Hough
The Covered Wagon - Emerson Hough
- Author: Emerson Hough
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
"Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oregon Trail, just before the California Gold Rush. It is the story of a wagon train bound for the west, and the conflict...
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the North of England, and subsequently to the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt stolen from his father. On...
Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington
Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. Since the duke himself hopes to mend his fortunes by wedding this very woman, he attempts to murder Beaucaire,...
Tom Swift and his Airship - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and his Airship - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
In Tom Swift and His Airship, Tom Swift has finished his latest invention- the Red Cloud, a fast and innovative airship. Tom is anxious for a cross-country trial, but just before he and his friends take off, the Shopton bank is robbed. No sooner is...
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 3) - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 3) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. He completed the work in 1844. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and in the Levant during the historical events of...
In Exile and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
In Exile and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Author: Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847β1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. She is famous...
The Elusive Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
The Elusive Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
First Published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
The Spoilers - Rex Beach
The Spoilers - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His first novel,...
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy - G. A. Henty
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France to serve a French Marquis, despite the rumblings of a revolution. Follow along to benefit from a wholesome...
The Call of the Wild (Version 2) - Jack London
The Call of the Wild (Version 2) - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the story of Buck, dog napped from sunny California to snowy Arctic during the Alaska gold rush. This deservedly famous book has been already recorded by LibriVox and downloaded more than 100,000 times. Why, then, would anyone suggest...
Facing the Flag - Jules Verne
Facing the Flag - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally overcome through the force of...
Swamp Island - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Swamp Island - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Late entry in the Penny Parker teen girl mystery series (1939-47) by one of the early ghostwriters (as Carolyn Keene) of Nancy Drew concerns an escaped embezzler, his revenge on the reporter whose articles helped convict him, and a long missing $50...
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story is narrated by one of the boys many years later. Mark Twain ends the story expressing the idea that will...
The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard
The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the course of his adventures he and his Zulu companion Otter save a young Portuguese woman, Juanna Rodd, together...
Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas
Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Let's continue the D'Artagnan Romances that we've already started with The Three Musketeers....
True to the Old Flag - G. A. Henty
True to the Old Flag - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag of England. This is a book for young readers, but - as a good book should be - everybody can enjoy it"....
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where...
Blackthorn Farm - Arthur APPLIN
Blackthorn Farm - Arthur APPLIN
- Author: Arthur APPLIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
But he was afraid. He had failed twice already. He could not afford to fail a third time. If he failed ruin faced him, and disgrace. His father had warned him that the money he had saved for his education had come to an end. Ruin for his father and...
Bunyip Land - George Manville Fenn
Bunyip Land - George Manville Fenn
- Author: George Manville Fenn
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
Joe Carstairs is a boy on a farm in Australia. His father is a keen naturalist who, some years before had set off for New Guinea in search of specimens, and never been heard of again. Joe is old enough to mount a search expedition, and takes with...
Phantoms of Reality - Ray Cummings
Phantoms of Reality - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
Red Sensua's knife came up drippingβand the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension. (Summary by Ray Cummings)...
Teddy's Button - Amy LE FEUVRE
Teddy's Button - Amy LE FEUVRE
- Author: Amy LE FEUVRE
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield and guards his button jealously. But this brings contention and strife when a new girl comes to town. Teddy begins to learn what it means to be a soldier under...
The Adventures of Ulysses - Charles Lamb
The Adventures of Ulysses - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, "I have gained a...