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The Adventures of Master F.J. - George GASCOIGNE
The Adventures of Master F.J. - George GASCOIGNE
- Author: George GASCOIGNE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Poetry
This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a young man named Freeman Jones and a married woman named Elinor, lady of the castle he is visiting in Scotland. Events in the affair are traced from...
An Eye For An Eye - William Le Queux
An Eye For An Eye - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Frank Urwin and Richard Cleugh are two bachelor journalists sharing a flat in London. One evening while chatting, Urwin receives a telegram from a police acquaintance to come to the local police station at once. Urwin visits Inspector Patterson who...
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Notorious pirates who are the scourge of the seven seas, and on land; ghost stories which scare voyagers in the jungles and the ice caps; two ships located in a fatal fight volleying broadsides as if their life depends upon it (which it does); and...
Plague of Pythons - Frederik Pohl
Plague of Pythons - Frederik Pohl
- Author: Frederik Pohl
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Science Fiction
In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military machinery self-destruct, people are randomly being affected by a plague that seemingly takes over their brains...
Treasure Island: A Play in 4 Acts - Jules Eckert GOODMAN
Treasure Island: A Play in 4 Acts - Jules Eckert GOODMAN
- Author: Jules Eckert GOODMAN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Plays
Arrgh and Shiver Me Timbers! Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver! This is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale as made into a play for The Punch and Judy Theatre Company in 1915. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Jim Hawkins: Rachel Mrs Hawkins: Jennifer...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 (version 2) - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 (version 2) - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Rodolphe is the Grand Duke of Gerolstein, a fictional kingdom of Germany, but disguises himself as a Parisian worker. He can speak in the secret language of criminals, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However, he shows great compassion for...
On the Iron at Big Cloud - Frank L. Packard
On the Iron at Big Cloud - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Single Author Collections
Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division -- those those twisting, climbing, dangerous and glorious miles of track that lead from the Division Point at Big...
Trail's End - George W. OGDEN
Trail's End - George W. OGDEN
- Author: George W. OGDEN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Westerns
When an agriculture professor wanders into a wicked Kansas cowtown in order to experiment raising wheat, both the professor and the town get more than they bargain for. A wild and wooly Western. (Summary by Jeff Chesnut)...
A Prisoner of Morro - Upton Sinclair
A Prisoner of Morro - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckraking novel, The Junglehref>, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction. Many of these works were written under...
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 1 - R. M. Ballantyne
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 1 - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
In this first story in Freaks on the Fells, Mr Sudberry, a successful London merchant takes his family on a Scottish highlands vacation. Over the course of the summer the family has lots of exciting adventures near and around the farm and adjoining...
Ride Proud, Rebel! - Andre Norton
Ride Proud, Rebel! - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure
Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with his harsh grandfather, who despised him since his birth because of his mother's runaway marriage to a Texan....
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II - François Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II - François Rabelais
- Author: François Rabelais
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son...
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own "shadowy ideal of conduct" on the...
The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks - Frank Gee Patchin
The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks - Frank Gee Patchin
- Author: Frank Gee Patchin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns / Action & Adventure
Yee-Haw!! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time the boys are in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri. With Joe Hawk, or Eagle-eye, guiding them, Professor Zepplin and the Pony Rider Boys are sure to find many adventures in this...
When God Laughs, and Other Stories - Jack London
When God Laughs, and Other Stories - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, to the trials of life and travel on many frontiers, to an allegory about a king who desired a nose. London is...
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch - H. Rider Haggard
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is a great book if you're looking for an adventure filled novel. It takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and describes some of the horrors that happened giving you an idea of what it was really like to live during that time period. Follow...
Don Quixote - Vol. 2 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote - Vol. 2 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the...
The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War - Archibald Clavering Gunter
The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War - Archibald Clavering Gunter
- Author: Archibald Clavering Gunter
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Exciting adventures of a beautiful Texan debutante. She was raised in New York City high society and attended the best schools. When her mother died she felt the urge to go out west to join her father, whom she never knew, on their massive...
The Dog Crusoe and His Master - R. M. Ballantyne
The Dog Crusoe and His Master - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This is a story of an adventure involving a young man, his dog, and two friends. Together they wander through the Western prairies on a mission to make peace between the "pale-faces" and the "Red men". They face many perils and become heroes many...
The Exploits of Juve - Marcel ALLAIN
The Exploits of Juve - Marcel ALLAIN
- Author: Marcel ALLAIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, Fantômas has no such qualms and is shown as a sociopath who enjoys killing in a sadistic fashion. He is totally ruthless,...
The Cruel Painter - George MacDonald
The Cruel Painter - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Short Stories
This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice with the express intent of...
The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - Arthur M. Winfield
The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - Arthur M. Winfield
- Author: Arthur M. Winfield
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Action & Adventure
The Boys are off on another series of adventures, beginning in San Francisco, where a run in with arch-enemy Dan Baxter leads them into the South Seas with their girlfriends in tow. Several ship mishaps later, they all land on a desert island to...
Sabotage in Space - Carey Rockwell
Sabotage in Space - Carey Rockwell
- Author: Carey Rockwell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
This book is part of the on-going adventures of Tom Corbett in the Space Cadet Stories. Tom, Astro and Roger are determined to find the saboteurs but get framed in the process, risking court martial and expulsion from the Space Academy. NOTE: Carey...
Pellucidar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
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 inventor friend Abner Perry after they use an...
The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The plots of both books revolve...
Frey and his Wife - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
Frey and his Wife - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Author: Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Frey and his Wife is a Nordic Saga, but written in a saga style by a 20th Century Englishman. It tells the tale of Gunnar, a Norwegian wrongly accused of murder who flees across the mountains to the pagan forests of Sweden. There he meets 'Frey' a...
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories - Bret Harte
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Short Stories / Westerns
A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century. (Summary by Nick Bulka)...
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie - Algernon Blackwood
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"The Regeneration of Lord Ernie is a story about a young man with no passion for life, he was very capable and the heir to a large family fortune but just not interested in life. His father employs a teacher, John Hendricks, to take him on a world...
The Island Queen - R. M. Ballantyne
The Island Queen - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The story of Dominic, Otto and Pauline Rigonda, three siblings who are blown onto an island after being shipwrecked, and are later joined by the immigrant passengers and crew of a ship that is wrecked on the same island. When the question of...
The Mystery Of Cloomber - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mystery Of Cloomber - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
This novel is written by the author of, among other novels, the Stories of Sherlock Holmes. It is narrated by John Fothergill West, who tries to discover why the tenant of Cloomber Hall, General Heatherstone, is nervous to the point of being...
The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories - Thomas Wallace Knox
The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories - Thomas Wallace Knox
- Author: Thomas Wallace Knox
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is a collection of 22 stories of action and adventure. We follow the narrators as they escape pirates and cannibals, overcome natural disasters, and are attacked by wild animals. Cunning plans are executed and daring escapes are accomplished,...
Lucinda - Anthony Hope
Lucinda - Anthony Hope
- Author: Anthony Hope
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
It's 1914 London, and it's Waldo and Lucinda's wedding day. Unfortunately, Lucinda is nowhere to be found. A messenger boy brings Lucinda's note to her mother - ‘I can’t do it, Mother. So I’ve gone.’ There seems to be some suspicion that an Italian...
A Princess of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength on this planet, due to its...
Indian Summer - William Dean Howells
Indian Summer - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian summer aspect applies to a...
Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier - Charles KING
Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier - Charles KING
- Author: Charles KING
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Five stories of Army life in the mid to late 19th century. Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He wrote and edited over 60 books and novels. Among his list of titles are Campaigning with Crook, Fort...
Timothy Crump's Ward - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Timothy Crump's Ward - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A poor family is surprised with an infant on their doorstep on New Year’s Eve with a note and monetary support requesting them to raise the child. Eight years later, the child is stolen and the family is put into more trouble trying to find her....
She - H. Rider Haggard
She - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket which he is to open on his 25th Birthday. On opening the Casket Leo and Horace discover the strange history of...
The Prairie - A Tale - James Fenimore Cooper
The Prairie - A Tale - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition....
Black Amazon of Mars (Version 3) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Black Amazon of Mars (Version 3) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Science Fiction
In his final adventure on Mars, Eric John Stark acquires a relic of an ancient Martian hero, a gem or lens which is believed to be the key to the strength of Kushat, the city that guards the Gates of Death in the frozen north. A brief inspection of...
The Curse of Capistrano (Dramatic Reading) - Johnston McCulley
The Curse of Capistrano (Dramatic Reading) - Johnston McCulley
- Author: Johnston McCulley
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The Curse of Capistrano is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (the Spanish word for "fox"). The story was later republished under the name The Mark of Zorro. The outlaw Zorro is Public Enemy #1 in southern California during the...
