Action & Adventure Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 2
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War - G. A. Henty
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire the Indian Peninsula. When the struggle began, the Mahrattas were masters of no small portion of India; their...
The Man-Eater - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Man-Eater - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Africa: The land of savagery and splendor. Where a marriage between an adventurer and a missionary's daughter is cut short by invading locals. A wife, forced to flee with her newborn daughter to the only family left. Young Virginia grows up until...
The World Beyond - Ray Cummings
The World Beyond - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Lee Anthony finds himself and two of his friends kidnapped and taken on a strange voyage. (Summary by Richard Kilmer )...
Ralestone Luck - Andre Norton
Ralestone Luck - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Rupert Ralestone is officially the Marquess of Lorne--but with no family money or prestige, the title is worthless. He and his younger brother and sister return to the old family homestead--Pirate's Haven. Their only hope is to find the family's...
The Golden Snare - James Oliver Curwood
The Golden Snare - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder and a wild, untamed and savage man who commands a pack of wolves as his brethren.But most peculiar of all is...
The Cruise of the Esmeralda - Harry Collingwood
The Cruise of the Esmeralda - Harry Collingwood
- Author: Harry Collingwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is said to have buried a vast fortune in gold and jewels somewhere in the Eastern Seas. The catch: all...
The Adventures of Pinocchio (version 2) - Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Pinocchio (version 2) - Carlo Collodi
- Author: Carlo Collodi
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a world not dominated by plastic or electronic toys.Pinocchio is a puppet made from a piece of wood that curiously could...
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 3 - R. M. Ballantyne
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 3 - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
In this, our last short story, we join a fishing expedition in Norway....
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel, published in 1838. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called Grampus. Various adventures and...
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed supplies, and tries to learn from her...
Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London
Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide...
The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas
The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas père and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the Netherlands. The novel begins with the 1672 politically motivated mob lynching of the de Witt brothers and then...
Pursuit - Lester del Rey
Pursuit - Lester del Rey
- Author: Lester del Rey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Wilbur Hawkes wakes with no memory of the last seven months. He knows he's in danger, but he doesn’t know why. No sooner does he leave his apartment than it explodes in flames, and, to escape, he must run through New York, not knowing where to run,...
Dick Sands the Boy Captain - Jules Verne
Dick Sands the Boy Captain - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many dangerous adventures on sea and in Central Africa....
Amadis of Gaul - Vasco de Lobeira
Amadis of Gaul - Vasco de Lobeira
- Author: Vasco de Lobeira
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Sagas
Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was first written - Portuguese or...
The Sea Wolf - Version 2 - Jack London
The Sea Wolf - Version 2 - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic, survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. -...
The Rover Boys at School - Arthur M. Winfield
The Rover Boys at School - Arthur M. Winfield
- Author: Arthur M. Winfield
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
First of the famous Rover Boys books by future Hardy Boys creator Edward Stratemeyer (under the pseudonym Arthur M Winfield), this is an introduction to the fun-loving teenage Rover Brothers -- Dick, Tom & Sam. Virtual orphans, they are sent by...
Space Tug - Murray Leinster
Space Tug - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank. In desperation he turned toward Haney. "My God, we've been locked out!" Through the transparent domes of their space helmets, Joe could see a look of horror and disbelief...
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck - Robert Pitcher Woodward
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck - Robert Pitcher Woodward
- Author: Robert Pitcher Woodward
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting without a dollar and earning my way." The journey could be accomplished in 5 days by train, but the author took...
Five Children and It - E. Nesbit
Five Children and It - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to...
Rebel Spurs - Andre Norton
Rebel Spurs - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest’s Confederate scouts, arrived leading...
The World's Desire - Andrew Lang
The World's Desire - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines the Allan Quatermain Series, and many more) and Andrew Lang (author of, among others, the rainbow coloured fairytale books) collaborate to lend their talent to one of the most fascinating and well...
Toppleton's Client - John Kendrick Bangs
Toppleton's Client - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr. is a loose cannon, their...
The Clue of the Silken Ladder - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The Clue of the Silken Ladder - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
In THE CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER, Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secretive and somewhat sinister old Japanese curio shop owner? How can the "Riverview Star" obtain evidence that a...
The Princess Galva - David Whitelaw
The Princess Galva - David Whitelaw
- Author: David Whitelaw
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Edward Povey had been a correspondence clerk for twenty-two years when he was summarily dismissed. So how did he find himself mixed up with an orphan girl, who was really a princess, as she sought to reclaim her throne from the man who had killed...
The Invasion - William Le Queux
The Invasion - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This novel, also known as The Invasion of 1910, is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux (with H. W. Wilson providing the naval chapters). It is one of the more famous examples of Invasion literature and is an example of pre-World War I...
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
- Author: Olive Schreiner
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late Nineteenth century - the First Boer War...
Gypsy Flight - Roy J. Snell
Gypsy Flight - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Action & Adventure
Rosemary Sample, an airplane stewardess, meets a mysterious dark lady on a flight to Salt Lake City. The plane is forced down overnight by a snowstorm. The passengers spend the night in a Hunting Lodge. In the morning, the dark lady finds her bag...
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 1: The English at the North Pole - Jules Verne
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 1: The English at the North Pole - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is to reach the place no matter what. Mutiny by the...
With Clive in India - G. A. Henty
With Clive in India - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English influence apparently at the point of...
The Shaving of Shagpat - George Meredith
The Shaving of Shagpat - George Meredith
- Author: George Meredith
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. (Summary by Wikipedia.) “The variety of scenes and images,...
Stories of Ships and the Sea - Jack London
Stories of Ships and the Sea - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
5 Exciting short stories by one of Americas best story tellers (Summary by William Tomcho)...
A Mating in the Wilds - Ottwell Binns
A Mating in the Wilds - Ottwell Binns
- Author: Ottwell Binns
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict in England, has established a lonely life as a trapper in the north woods. While visiting a trading post, he encounters Ainley whom he had known when they were both students. Stane...
Alcatraz - Max Brand
Alcatraz - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)...
The Red Inn - Honoré de Balzac
The Red Inn - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Single Author Collections
Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution. - Summary by pmstrahm...
Montezuma's Daughter - H. Rider Haggard
Montezuma's Daughter - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
A moving adventure story narrated by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman, for Queen Elizabeth 1 of England about the murder of his mother, his trail of vengeance against the murderer which leads him to the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, romance and...
The Curse of Capistrano - Johnston McCulley
The Curse of Capistrano - Johnston McCulley
- Author: Johnston McCulley
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). The story was later republished under the name The Mark of Zorro. Senor Zorro is deemed an outlaw as he...
Curlie Carson Listens In - Roy J. Snell
Curlie Carson Listens In - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
It is early in the days of radio, and amateurs are using it more and more, and using it illegally. Enter Curlie Carson, who has the job of tracking down the miscreants. Sounds boring. You wouldn't expect high speed car chases, kidnapping, double...
For Treasure Bound - Harry Collingwood
For Treasure Bound - Harry Collingwood
- Author: Harry Collingwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
For Treasure Bound is one of the earlier novels by Harry Collingwood (William Joseph Cosens Lancaster), published in 1897. We follow the hero, whose name is incidentally also Harry Collingwood, on a quest to the pacific islands for treasure and his...
Little Lord Fauntleroy (version 2) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Lord Fauntleroy (version 2) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message from...
