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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely...
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This delightful book tells about a group of smart young people who get up to some wonderful adventures together - and save one another from troubles. The unofficial leader of the group is Grace Harlowe, the title character. When Anne Pierson comes...
The Exploits of Juve (version 2) - Marcel ALLAIN
The Exploits of Juve (version 2) - Marcel ALLAIN
- Author: Marcel ALLAIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The second book in the FantΓ΄mas series by the prolific authors Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (they published 32 FantΓ΄mas novels between 1911 and 1913.) FantΓ΄mas broke the mold of the Gentlemen burglars like Raffles and Arsene Lupin. He killed...
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading) - Baroness Orczy
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading) - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The last of the famous "Scarlet Pimpernel" books, the "Triumph" tells the story of the final confrontation between the Scarlet Pimpernel and his nemesis, Chauvelin. Set at the end of the Reign of Terror, the fortunes of all rise and fall along with...
The Brushwood Boy - Rudyard Kipling
The Brushwood Boy - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction
The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream world he discovers and frequents. (Summary by Liam Neely)...
The Courage of Marge O'Doone - James Oliver Curwood
The Courage of Marge O'Doone - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
David Raine is travelling, trying to escape his own memories. On the train he meets Father Rolland, who invites him North, to a world of "mystery and savage glory", to help him find himself again. On the same train, he meets a mysterious woman...
Camp-Fire Girls in the Country or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot - Stella M. FRANCIS
Camp-Fire Girls in the Country or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot - Stella M. FRANCIS
- Author: Stella M. FRANCIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Teen-ager Hazel Edwards and the other twelve members of the Flamingo Camp-Fire Girls experience some real adventure when they are invited to spend part of their summer as guests of Hazelβs elderly aunt on her large country farm. Mrs. Hannah Hutchins...
The Flaming Jewel - Robert W. Chambers
The Flaming Jewel - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
During the last two years, Fate, Chance, and Destiny had been too busy to attend to Mike Clinch. But now his turn was coming in the Eternal Sequence of things. The stars in their courses indicated the beginning of the undoing of Mike Clinch. In the...
Cupid in Africa - Percival Christopher WREN
Cupid in Africa - Percival Christopher WREN
- Author: Percival Christopher WREN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Bertram Greene, brilliant student, aesthete, intellectual and shy, decides to make his military father proud of him at last and joins the colonial Indian Army Reserve as a second Lieutenant at the start of Great War. Feeling a complete fish out of...
The Lure of the Dim Trails - B. M. Bower
The Lure of the Dim Trails - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
Phil Thurston was born on the range where the trails are dim and silent under the big sky. It was the place his father loved, the place he had to be. After the death of his father when he was five, his mother brought him back to the city, where he...
Earth's Enigmas - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Earth's Enigmas - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Single Author Collections
Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no adequate solution within sight. Others are the almost literal transcript of dreams which...
The Mysteries of London Vol. III - George W. M. REYNOLDS
The Mysteries of London Vol. III - 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, published in four volumes. This is the third volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap operas. Known as "Penny...
The Mysteries of London Vol. II - George W. M. REYNOLDS
The Mysteries of London Vol. II - 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, published in four volumes. This is the second volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap operas. Known as "Penny...
Tales of a Traveller - Washington Irving
Tales of a Traveller - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820βs. He wrote of people he met, places he saw and stories he was told. In fact, much of the work is recounting tales told to him by...
The Tale of Three Lions - H. Rider Haggard
The Tale of Three Lions - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Taking place in the heart of Africa, βThe Tale of Three Lionsβ is one more thrilling adventure from the eventful life of old hunter Quatermain, the famous hero of βKing Solomons Minesβ. This time, though there are no bloodthirsty people for the old...
A Child of the Jago - Arthur Morrison
A Child of the Jago - Arthur Morrison
- Author: Arthur Morrison
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863, Poplar, London - 4 December 1945, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire) was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories. Morrison's most...
Bulldog Drummond - Sapper
Bulldog Drummond - Sapper
- Author: Sapper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
βSapperβ, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. And Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond was his most popular leading character. This book, the first of the series, is of...
The Snare - Rafael Sabatini
The Snare - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A story of burning jealousy and romance set in the British peninsula campaign against Napoleon. A British officers family is ensnared by mistakes, secrets, and false accusations. ( Peter Strahm)...
Breaking Point - James Edwin GUNN
Breaking Point - James Edwin GUNN
- Author: James Edwin GUNN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Machines are infallible. Humans are not. The crew of The Ambassador knew their ship could not possibly fail, but what of themselves? And how could they defend against an unknown enemy with unknown motives and superhuman abilities, intent on driving...
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those...
The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane - Alain RenΓ© LESAGE
The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane - Alain RenΓ© LESAGE
- Author: Alain RenΓ© LESAGE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at the age of seventeen to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future is suddenly interrupted when he...
The People that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The People that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
The People that Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the second of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. The first novel ended with the hero writing a manuscript of his adventures and casting it out to sea in his thermos bottle. The second novel...
Smugglers' Reef - Harold L. Goodwin
Smugglers' Reef - Harold L. Goodwin
- Author: Harold L. Goodwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Seventh entry in the Rick Brant Science Mystery Adventure series has Rick and buddy Scott using infrared technology on the trail of smuggling no-goodniks in the vicinity of Spindrift Island, Rick's home and location of his dad's laboratory, off the...
Stolen Idols - E. Phillips Oppenheim
Stolen Idols - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the supernatural. Carved by Chinese craftsmen, they have stood to either side of the great Buddha for hundreds of...
The House of the White Shadows - B. L. FARJEON
The House of the White Shadows - B. L. FARJEON
- Author: B. L. FARJEON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Literary Fiction
Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charges against him after the trial has already commenced? And if friends hold a belief that he may have been aware...
The Game and the Candle - Eleanor M. INGRAM
The Game and the Candle - Eleanor M. INGRAM
- Author: Eleanor M. INGRAM
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Faced with inherited debts, an estate to maintain, and no money to pay for either, brothers John and Robert Allard have a difficult decision to make. How much of their integrity are they willing to compromise in order to save their aunt and cousin...
William Tell Told Again - P. G. Wodehouse
William Tell Told Again - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This is the classic story of William Tell - Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter - as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodehouse.No Swiss were (permanently) injured in the telling of this story; however, results differed for Austrian...
Historic Waterways - Reuben Gold THWAITES
Historic Waterways - Reuben Gold THWAITES
- Author: Reuben Gold THWAITES
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. This volume is the record of six hundred miles of canoeing experiences on historic waterways in Wisconsin and Illinois during the summer of 1887. There has...
Tom Sawyer, Detective - Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer, Detective - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of...
Prisoner of the Mill - Harry HAZELTON
Prisoner of the Mill - Harry HAZELTON
- Author: Harry HAZELTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Subtitled "Captain Hayward's Body Guardβ. An adventure story for boys....
Prester John - John Buchan
Prester John - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfurd before the age of twenty. As a boy growing up on the coast of Scotland, minister's son Davie and two...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the cases unfold as he does, scratch our heads as does he while the evidence...
Typee - Herman Melville
Typee - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America and England, and was Melville's...
The Fall of the Nibelungs - Unknown
The Fall of the Nibelungs - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied", a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by many to be based on the...
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 2) - Philip Francis NOWLAN
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 2) - Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Author: Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
Armageddonβ2419 A.D. is the first appearance of the character that would become Buck Rogers. First published in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, followed by a sequel in March 1929. These two novellas would spawn a comic strip that would run...
The Wizard - H. Rider Haggard
The Wizard - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Described by the author, best known for his King Solomon's Mines, as "a tale of victorious faith," this story begins on a Sunday afternoon in an English church. Most of the book, though, is set in Africa, and the adventure story is as engaging as...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction
In order to escape his cruel father, and led by a thirst for adventure, Huck Finn sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped slave. But trouble is never far behind them, and their adventures are only beginning when they meet up with...
Bob the Castaway - Frank V. WEBSTER
Bob the Castaway - Frank V. WEBSTER
- Author: Frank V. WEBSTER
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Frank V Webster was a pseudonym controlled by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the first book packager of books aimed at children. This pseudonym was used on books for boys from the early 1900s through the 1930s. Bob the Castaway follows the antics of...
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice - Jules Verne
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice - 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...
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2 - Benvenuto CELLINI
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2 - Benvenuto CELLINI
- Author: Benvenuto CELLINI
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They show a great...