Action & Adventure Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezuela) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of...
God's Country—And the Woman - James Oliver Curwood
God's Country—And the Woman - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. The success of his novels afforded him the...
The Giaour - George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Giaour - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Poetry / Romance
"The Giaour" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. "The Giaour" proved to be a great success when published, consolidating Byron's reputation critically and commercially. (Summary by...
Northwest! - Harold BINDLOSS
Northwest! - Harold BINDLOSS
- Author: Harold BINDLOSS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Northwest! takes place in western Canada, primarily western Alberta and British Columbia. The story revolves around Jimmy not being sure whether or not he shot and killed a Northwest Mounted while he and some friends were out hunting one day. Not...
The Mysteries of Marseilles - Émile Zola
The Mysteries of Marseilles - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The elopement of Philippe Cayol, an aspiring liberal, poor and untitled with Blanche De Cazalis, niece of a powerful millionaire and politician sets the stage in this novel full of twists and turns with villains a plenty. Philippe's brother Marius...
Black Ivory - R. M. Ballantyne
Black Ivory - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of the sinking ship, and a seaman friend of his,...
The Alaskan - James Oliver Curwood
The Alaskan - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A wilderness story of adventure and intrigue in Alaska in the 1920’s. Summary by Maire Rhode....
The Brethren - H. Rider Haggard
The Brethren - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical Fiction
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtful man, and Wulf is the blue eyed warrior. They are both knights of England and they are both in love with...
The Shadow - Arthur STRINGER
The Shadow - Arthur STRINGER
- Author: Arthur STRINGER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot twists along the way. Arthur Stringer was a novelist, screenwriter and poet. He published 45 works of fiction...
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an...
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advised schemes first alienate his patrimony and at last cost him his life. His younger brother, sweet-tempered...
In the Pecos Country - Edward S. ELLIS
In the Pecos Country - Edward S. ELLIS
- Author: Edward S. ELLIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he wrote under dozens of pseudonyms, as well as under his own name, it is virtually impossible to know exactly...
The Old Adam - Arnold Bennett
The Old Adam - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Edward Henry Machin, whose rise from humble beginnings to prosperity was told in 'The Card', leads a comfortable life in the English Midlands 'Five Towns'. Yet when he unexpectedly gains three hundred and forty-one pounds in a speculation on rubber...
The Mucker - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Mucker - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Grown and raised on the streets of Chicago; a ruthless, brawling beast of a man who detests all that “class” and “highbrow society” has to offer. Shanghaied and put into service upon a pirate’s vessel to kidnap an affluent business man’s daughter on...
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars - Bampfylde Moore CAREW
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars - Bampfylde Moore CAREW
- Author: Bampfylde Moore CAREW
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman, and members of the landed gentry...
The Perils of Pauline (dramatic reading) - Charles GODDARD
The Perils of Pauline (dramatic reading) - Charles GODDARD
- Author: Charles GODDARD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The Perils of Pauline is one of the first damsel in distress serials. The story is complete with undaunted hero, courageous damsel, unscrupulous villains galore, and other worldly interest. Before getting married, Pauline wants to experience the...
Survivors of the Chancellor - Jules Verne
Survivors of the Chancellor - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Survivors of the Chancellor is a poignant and tragic tale of terror and intrigue on the high seas. Through raging storms, emaciating hunger and thirst, shipwreck and mutiny…follow the passengers of The Chancellor as they descend from one layer...
The Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas - Thomas Mayne REID
The Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas - Thomas Mayne REID
- Author: Thomas Mayne REID
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah! About him there is something to...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3) - Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction
Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991, containing the unabridged text from the original French and offered up into the public domain. It is considered to be the very first...
Rupert of Hentzau - Anthony Hope
Rupert of Hentzau - Anthony Hope
- Author: Anthony Hope
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
This is the sequel to 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. Five years have passed. The King has become jealous of Rudolf Rassendyll and suspicious of the queen (Flavia)'s feelings towards him. Flavia decides that this must be the last year in which she sends to...
The False Faces - Louis Joseph Vance
The False Faces - Louis Joseph Vance
- Author: Louis Joseph Vance
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respectable life, when World War I wrecks his life. With his family dead and the spy Ekstrom alive after all, his...
The Merry Anne - Samuel Merwin
The Merry Anne - Samuel Merwin
- Author: Samuel Merwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose his boat and his sweetheart. With a fast pace and interesting plot, the story is made realistic with very...
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3) - Alexandre Dumas
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction
The d'Artagnan Romances are six volumes that intertwine exciting events (real and fictionalized) from 17th-century Europe and the life of the most adored French musketeer of that period, Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan. Volume 1 introduces...
Red Shadows - Robert E. Howard
Red Shadows - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Red Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard's puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, enters the jungles of Africa, and even faces dark Gods and evil magic -- all to avenge a woman he'd never met...
Flash Evans, Camera News Hawk - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Flash Evans, Camera News Hawk - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Jimmy 'Flash' Evans, 17, ace photographer for The Brandale Ledger, tries his hand at the newsreel game in this upbeat, pre-war adventure. The listed author, Frank Bell, was actually the prolific Mildred Wirt Benson, most famous for writing the early...
Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely-connected short stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically, the events recounted...
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity...
Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne
Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Join three intrepid explorers as they seek to cross and explore the continent of Africa from Indian Ocean to Atlantic Ocean, except they’re doing it by hot air balloon. Scholar and scientist Samuel Ferguson, his manservant Joe, and his friend...
Tarzan the Terrible - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Terrible - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for...
The Queen's Necklace - Alexandre Dumas
The Queen's Necklace - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, "The Diamond Necklace Affair". The Diamond Necklace Affair contributed to the discrediting of the Marie Antoinette...
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret - G. A. Henty
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Intrigue, murder, highwaymen... A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into the possession of Colonel Thorndyke, who is subsequently sent home to England, where he dies of wounds...
The Argonautica - Apollonius RHODIUS
The Argonautica - Apollonius RHODIUS
- Author: Apollonius RHODIUS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry
The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece took to sea in the Argos has been told many times, before and after Apollonius of Rhodes, wrote his Argonautica, in the 3rd century b.C.. It is not only the oldest full version of the...
The Passenger from Calais - Arthur Griffiths
The Passenger from Calais - Arthur Griffiths
- Author: Arthur Griffiths
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
An army officer, and a mysterious lady with a maid and baby in tow, are the only passengers on the Engadine express from Calais. The lady is afraid that someone is following her. Who is she? And what is her strange package? One suspicious...
Trips to the Moon - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
Trips to the Moon - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Author: LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Epistolary Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon wonder, Lucian first condemned in his Instructions for Writing History, and then caricatured in his True...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
Völsungasaga - William Morris
Völsungasaga - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
The 13th century Icelandic Völsungasaga is usually read by people studying the Poetic Edda or Wagner's Ring - which obscures the fact it is a much better story than practically everything derived from it. A riddle-telling dragon, a broken sword, a...
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines - Clayton EDWARDS
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines - Clayton EDWARDS
- Author: Clayton EDWARDS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction
It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested couples—for this is a book of contrasts and has been written as such. Lives of the most dramatic and...
How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion - George Wilbur Peck
How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion - George Wilbur Peck
- Author: George Wilbur Peck
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. He had a wry sense of humor and sympathy for underdogs. ( Arnold...
After London, or Wild England - Richard JEFFERIES
After London, or Wild England - Richard JEFFERIES
- Author: Richard JEFFERIES
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The...
Eleven Possible Cases - Various
Eleven Possible Cases - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This book brings together eleven stories, each a case of intrigue where more is going on than seems at first. - Summary by A. Gramour...
