Action & Adventure Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 5
The Great Shadow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Shadow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore near his home. The stranger...
A Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West - Frank Norris
A Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West - Frank Norris
- Author: Frank Norris
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
This collection of Frank Norris' stories was published after his death in 1902. These stories range in topic from the machinations of the commodities market in Chicago in "A Deal in Wheat" to a desperate race for love in "The Riding of Felipe." "A...
The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is a collection of early Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)...
עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club - יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim BRENNER
עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club - יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim BRENNER
- Author: יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim BRENNER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Short Stories / War & Military Fiction
This is a bilingual project. The first part, in Hebrew, is the story "Injustice" by Yosef Haim Brenner, written following the conquest of Palestine by the British troops during WWI. The story takes place on the Turkish side of the dividing line...
Once on a Time - A. A. MILNE
Once on a Time - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle during breakfast provokes a series of incidents which escalate into war. While the King of Euralia is away,...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), often shortened to Huck Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels...
The Legion of Lazarus - Edmond HAMILTON
The Legion of Lazarus - Edmond HAMILTON
- Author: Edmond HAMILTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Those convicted of the most heinous crimes are sentenced to the Humane Penalty: they are ejected from the airlock of a ship, to freeze in the icy chill of outer space. Death is instantaneous. But in some cases, not permanent. - Summary by Peter...
The Angel of the Revolution - George GRIFFITH
The Angel of the Revolution - George GRIFFITH
- Author: George GRIFFITH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by English writer George Griffith. It was his first published novel and remains his most famous work. It was first published in Pearson's Weekly and was...
Countdown - Kurt BECKER. S. J.
Countdown - Kurt BECKER. S. J.
- Author: Kurt BECKER. S. J.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / General
The first flight to outer space became an actual fact – Mars would be the first stop. But before the spaceship took off, two insane enemies almost succeeded in preventing the departure. This science fiction story for teens was written by a Catholic...
The Silver Horde - Rex Beach
The Silver Horde - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Silver Horde , is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and decides to open a cannery. To...
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril - G. A. Henty
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
G. A . Henty was a prolific writer of historical fiction for young adults. In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and...
Off on a Comet - Jules Verne
Off on a Comet - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form a mini-society and cope with the...
The Steam House - Jules Verne
The Steam House - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Jules Verne is back with another action-packed adventure--this time in India with a steam-powered elephant! Maucler, Captain Hood, Banks, and Colonel Munro set out for a pleasure trip across India in their train pulled by Behemoth, their mechanical...
Members of the Family - Owen Wister
Members of the Family - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Summary by David Wales)...
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon - Jules Verne
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, having elements of codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction. Rather, it describes a voyage down the...
The Coming Race - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
The Coming Race - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the...
The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 2 - George W. M. REYNOLDS
The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 2 - George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Author: George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46, priced at a penny each. Serialised novels sold in this way were known as Penny Dreadfuls … without any...
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
In London, 1872, a rich English gentlemen named Mr. Phileas Fogg argues with the members in the Reform Club, and takes on a journey around the world in 80 days with his new servant, Passapartout, with accepting a wager. Summary by Jessie Yun Cast...
The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan
The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1939 classic film of...
Astounding Stories 12, December 1930 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 12, December 1930 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
This issue includes "Slaves of the Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Part B of "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, "The Sea Terror" by Captain S. P. Meek, "Gray Denim" by Harl Vincent, and "The Ape-Men of Xlotli" by David R. Sparks. - Summary by...
The Hunted Woman - James Oliver Curwood
The Hunted Woman - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins "It was all new - most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she had been a keenly attentive,...
The Mystery of the Ravenspurs - Fred M. WHITE
The Mystery of the Ravenspurs - Fred M. WHITE
- Author: Fred M. WHITE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged with strange happenings which are dwindling the population of the family to only a few which remain, and those...
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Single Author Collections
This lively collection of stories by Q, aka the imaginative and prolific man of letters Arthur Quiller-Couch, includes tales of mystery, horror, and adventure. Beware. There will be ghosts, pirates, scholars, death, taxes, at least one princess, and...
Aunt Jane's Nieces In The Red Cross - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces In The Red Cross - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The 10th and final book in the series for adolescent girls sees two of the three cousins react to atrocities in World War I by volunteering in the Red Cross. Written under the pseudonym of Edith Van Dyne, this is the 1915 version, which reflects...
Night Watches - W. W. JACOBS
Night Watches - W. W. JACOBS
- Author: W. W. JACOBS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A most popular Jacobs character, a night watchman along the English coast, remembers troubles his friends got into during shore leave. At least part of the fault lay with those friends, who were both careless and naïve. But not all the stories are...
The Beasts of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Beasts of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels.Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in1914, the novel was first published in book form byA. C. McClurg in 1916. In the previous novel Tarzan reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton,...
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental...
The Copper Princess - Kirk MUNROE
The Copper Princess - Kirk MUNROE
- Author: Kirk MUNROE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure set in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The delightful story features a brave and wholesome hero struggling for his rightful copper mining inheritance against smugglers...
Greenmantle - John Buchan
Greenmantle - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and...
The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell WRIGHT
The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Author: Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks and the mystery surrounding an old man called 'The Shepherd of the Hills,' who's called Dad Howitt. The backdrop storyline surrounds the pretty Samantha Lane, called Sammy, and her...
The Mysterious Island (version 2) - Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island (version 2) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death...
Storm Over Warlock, Version 2 - Andre Norton
Storm Over Warlock, Version 2 - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and...
It Is Never Too Late to Mend - Charles Reade
It Is Never Too Late to Mend - Charles Reade
- Author: Charles Reade
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to Australia to earn money enough to...
Mr. Justice Raffles - E. W. Hornung
Mr. Justice Raffles - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A. J. Raffles is a British gentleman thief of some renown who, in this, the hero's final adventure, ironically demonstrates a sense of morality by teaching a London East End loan shark a lesson. The book was later made into a movie, as well as a...
The Tavern Knight - Rafael Sabatini
The Tavern Knight - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern Knight, in his defence of the King of England against Cromwell and his Puritan Entourage. (Summary by Ric Cornwall)...
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but his plans mysteriously disappear, which means Tom must redesign his new airplane from the beginning. (Summary...
The Devil's Paw - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Devil's Paw - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
A beautiful, intelligent young woman – is she a traitorous spy or a patriot? An aristocratic soldier permanently injured during the war – is he a patriot or is there more to him than meets the eye? A clandestine meeting on a beach – espionage or...
Allan and the Holy Flower - H. Rider Haggard
Allan and the Holy Flower - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Further adventures of Allan Quatermain.This is one of the 14 books that H. Rider Haggard wrote - starting with "King Solomon's Mines" - depicting the adventures of Allan Quatermain, great English hunter in the wilds of mysterious Africa. (Summary by...
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane PORTER
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane PORTER
- Author: Jane PORTER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children, but is equally enjoyable for adults....
The Outlet - Andy ADAMS
The Outlet - Andy ADAMS
- Author: Andy ADAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
Andy Adams worked as a cowboy on trail drives from Texas for eight years. This is an account of a drive when he was the foreman of a herd of Texas cattle being driven to Montana. Expect the same quality writing as found in other books by Adams....
