Action & Adventure Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 4
Wildfire - Zane Grey
Wildfire - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
The heart of a stallion; the heart of a man; the heart of a woman. Three valiant, authentic, and determined souls cross each others' paths, and the sparks fly. We'll leave it to you to find out what kind of sparks. (Summary by Tony Oliva)...
Miss Cayley's Adventures - Grant Allen
Miss Cayley's Adventures - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Fun stories of Miss Lois Cayley, independent young woman, as she, beginning with only twopence in her pocket, travels the world. (Summary by kristin) Miss Lois Cayley, a smart, strong and independent woman, is traveling around the world. However,...
The Lust of Hate - Guy Boothby
The Lust of Hate - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the third Dr Nikola book in a series of five written by Guy Boothby. The main character is Gilbert Pennethorne a man whom "Lady luck" has deserted. A number of commercial failures, estrangement from his family, Unsuccessful gold prospecting...
Nobody's Boy - Hector Malot
Nobody's Boy - Hector Malot
- Author: Hector Malot
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
One day, French mason Jerome Barberin finds an abandoned baby boy. As the boy is wearing fine clothes, Barberin hopes that he is the son of rich parents who will reclaim him soon and offer a reward to Barberin for taking care of him. He therefore...
Out of Time's Abyss - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Out of Time's Abyss - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Out of Time's Abyss is a science fiction novel, the third of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. In this conclusion, the mysteries of the lost world's unique biological system are revealed. (Adapted from Wikipedia) Link to The Land that Time...
The Ego Machine - Henry Kuttner
The Ego Machine - Henry Kuttner
- Author: Henry Kuttner
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Celebrated playwright Nicholas Martin didn’t read the small print in his Hollywood options contract. Now he’s facing five years of servitude to a conceited director named Raoul St. Cyr, who’s taken a thoughtful play about Portuguese fishermen and...
Rezanov - Gertrude Atherton
Rezanov - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806, pushed for the Russian colonization of Alaska and California. "Not twenty pages have you turned before you...
The Forbidden Way - George Gibbs
The Forbidden Way - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
...he went over to a cracked mirror in the corner and examined his face, grinning at his image and touching the red marks with his fingers. "That was a love-tap for fair," he said. "I reckon I deserved it. But she oughtn’t to push a man too far. She...
The Two-Gun Man - Charles Alden Seltzer
The Two-Gun Man - Charles Alden Seltzer
- Author: Charles Alden Seltzer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Rustlers are stealing Two Diamond cattle, and the manager is fit to be tied. The range boss claims it’s the neighbor, but there’s no proof. Everyone finds the neighbor’s sister desirable, but she finds everyone tedious (at best). Will lies,...
A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London
A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
In Jack London's first novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie," who heads to the Yukon gold fields after creating a stir in her hometown by being strong and forthright...
Tarzan and the Golden Lion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Golden Lion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, when the great and lordly animal becomes his ally and...
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 3) - Maurice Leblanc
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 3) - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A series of loosely related short stories of the early adventures of France's famous gentleman burglar, Arsène Lupin, as told by an admirer and trusted friend. (Cate Barrat)...
The Well at the World's End - William Morris
The Well at the World's End - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
The Well at the World's End is thought to be one of the first examples of an entirely fictional fantasy world, and has greatly influenced later fantasy writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book follows the travels of Ralph, a prince of...
The Trawler - James Brendan Connolly
The Trawler - James Brendan Connolly
- Author: James Brendan Connolly
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Trawler is a short story revolving around the trying life of a group of bank fishermen based in Gloucester. Skipper Hugh Glynn worked his men hard; some said too hard, and Arthur Snow was one who had paid the ultimate price. Arthur's close...
Aaron Trow - Anthony Trollope
Aaron Trow - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from would-be captors. The struggle is brutal. In the end, we are left wondering which person really wins--the pursued...
Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad
Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when other influences cause distrust in the business partnership and the...
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical Fiction
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has always been something especially...
Red Nails - Robert E. Howard
Red Nails - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Conan the Cimmerian pursues the beautiful and deadly pirate Valeria after she kills a Stygian only to find himself cornered by a dragon. Apparently this dragon doesn’t know who he’s messing with. The pair then encounters the city of Xuchotl with its...
The Wind in the Willows (version 3) - Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows (version 3) - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Animals & Nature
The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy ending. The prose is beautiful and...
Indian Boyhood - Charles Alexander Eastman
Indian Boyhood - Charles Alexander Eastman
- Author: Charles Alexander Eastman
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the life of a Sioux child in the last days of the tribe's "wild" life in the 19th century, before they succumbed to fences, boundaries, and other constrictions of civilization....
Louise de la Valliere - Alexandre Dumas
Louise de la Valliere - 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...
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories - Andrew Barton Paterson
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories - Andrew Barton Paterson
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1900 onward
From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window into the past and the culture of the region. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Edmond Dantès - Edmund Flagg
Edmond Dantès - Edmund Flagg
- Author: Edmund Flagg
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
"Edmond Dantès" the Sequel to Alexander Dumas' masterpiece, "The Count of Monte-Cristo," is a novel that will delight, entertain and instruct all who read it. It has wonderful fascination, absorbing interest and rare merit, combined with remarkable...
The Love of Monsieur - George Gibbs
The Love of Monsieur - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
A charming rogue, a stolen birthright, unrequited love, mutiny on the high seas, with a backdrop of 17th century England and the Spanish Main, make for another historical romance from George Gibbs. - Summary by Donald Cummings...
Glinda of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Glinda of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth Land of Oz book and is the last one written by the original author L. Frank Baum, although the series was continued after his death by several other authors. Dorothy and Ozma discover that a war is brewing in a distant...
Heart of the World - H. Rider Haggard
Heart of the World - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long lost city filled with gold and jewels! It is also a love story of a couple willing to give up everything, and I...
The Call of the Wild (version 4) - Jack London
The Call of the Wild (version 4) - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a...
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a...
The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
- Author: Anthony Hope
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania he becomes involved in saving the...
Madcap - George Gibbs
Madcap - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Quote:"To the quiet Titine her mistress created an impression of bringing not only herself into the room, but also the violent horse and the whole of the out-of-doors besides." --Chapter 1 of Madcap. --In the same chapter, Hermia Challoner, this...
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly-employed French valet...
The Power-House - John Buchan
The Power-House - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. The narrator is the barrister and Tory MP Edward...
The Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The Sign of the Four, the second of four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, has a complex plot involving India, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts and two corrupt prison guards. Some of Holmes's less savory habits are revealed,...
Revelations of a Wife - Adele GARRISON
Revelations of a Wife - Adele GARRISON
- Author: Adele GARRISON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Adele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee. She later worked as an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and then a reporter and writer for the Chicago...
Nomads of the North - James Oliver Curwood
Nomads of the North - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
An unlikely pair were Neewa, the black bear cub who had been orphaned at a young age, and Miki, part Mackenzie hound, part Airedale and Spitz who had become separated from his master in the frozen reaches of northern Canada. But the two befriended...
Khaled, A Tale of Arabia - Francis Marion Crawford
Khaled, A Tale of Arabia - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Khaled is a powerful jinn, or genius, but he has a good heart. When he sees that Zehowah, the beautiful, virtuous daughter of the king is about to accept a foreign prince as husband, who lied about converting to Islam, he takes the law into his own...
Miss Pim's Camouflage - Dorothy TENNANT
Miss Pim's Camouflage - Dorothy TENNANT
- Author: Dorothy TENNANT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
Mid-WWI, staid Englishwoman Miss Perdita Pim suffers a sunstroke gardening & gains the power of invisibility. She becomes a super-secret agent, going behind German lines, sometimes visible, sometimes not, witnessing atrocities & gleaning...
Plain Living - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
Plain Living - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Author: Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Family Life
Seemingly down-on-his-luck Australian sheep rancher and orchard grower kindly teaches his loving family the value of money through 'plain living'. Fellow fans of Jon Cleary's "The Sundowners", set a generation later, may enjoy this. - Summary by...
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia - Samuel Johnson
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia - Samuel Johnson
- Author: Samuel Johnson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the Happy Valley in search of that triad of eighteenth-century aspiration - life, liberty and happiness. According...
The Scarlet Pimpernel (version 3 dramatic reading) - Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel (version 3 dramatic reading) - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Baroness Emma ("Emmuska") Orczy (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were...
