Action & Adventure Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 9
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth - Jules Verne
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to...
The Time Machine (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as βThe Time Travellerβ tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as...
The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer - Anonymous
The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so he will be able to stand proudly with his ancestors. - Summary by Fritz...
The Virginians - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Virginians - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the command of General Wolfe at the...
The Talisman - Sir Walter Scott
The Talisman - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the leaders from allied countries plot and scheme to gain personal power, putting the future of the crusade in...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06 - 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 sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
The Watchers - A. E. W. Mason
The Watchers - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction
A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a dangerous youth who sat in the...
Dutch Courage and Other Stories - Jack London
Dutch Courage and Other Stories - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!" After his death in 1916, his wife Charmian assembled a collection of stories, most of which he had...
Robinson Crusoe (version 2) - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe (version 2) - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoeβs hard-luck character is still the standard for βgrowing where youβre planted.β Captured by pirates, he makes his break in a small boat and undergoes desperate adventures before winning his way back to...
Stories from Virgil - Alfred John Church
Stories from Virgil - Alfred John Church
- Author: Alfred John Church
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as "The Horse of Wood" and "The Love and Death of Dido," as well as many others perhaps less well-known, such as "King Evander"...
A Chicago Princess - Robert BARR
A Chicago Princess - Robert BARR
- Author: Robert BARR
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune, Rupert Tremorne is stranded in Nagasaki, at the end of his wits and in some debt. His only chance is to take the post as private secretary to the...
Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, and enslaved on...
The Blue Envelope - Roy J. Snell
The Blue Envelope - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska....
Black Jack - Max Brand
Black Jack - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
The son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery. Will he follow in the footsteps of his outlaw father or will his life be guided by the respectable woman who...
The Broad Highway - John Jeffery FARNOL
The Broad Highway - John Jeffery FARNOL
- Author: John Jeffery FARNOL
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters as well as a few neβer-do-wells,...
Kastle Krags: A Story of Mystery - Absalom MARTIN
Kastle Krags: A Story of Mystery - Absalom MARTIN
- Author: Absalom MARTIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
A series of murders occur at the remote seaside mansion of a millionaire in Florida. The mystery is heightened via local lore of pirates and hidden treasure, not to mention a fabled ancient octopus said to have a taste for the local black...
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. - Philip Francis NOWLAN
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. - Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Author: Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it occurs to me that my memoirs of the 25th Century may have an equal interest 500 years from nowβparticularly...
Secret of the Ninth Planet - Donald WOLLHEIM
Secret of the Ninth Planet - Donald WOLLHEIM
- Author: Donald WOLLHEIM
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
An alien race has put a station on Earth and other planets in order to steal the rays of the sun, possible causing the sun to nova within two years. Burl Denning, a high school student, is the only person who has the power to stop the alien project....
The Curse of Carne's Hold - G. A. Henty
The Curse of Carne's Hold - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
When Ronald Mervyn from Devonshire is falsely accused of murder he emigrates to South Africa. He takes part in the Kaffir war and during this time he rescues a family from death. The family then return to England and try to establish Ronald's...
The Doom of London - Fred M. WHITE
The Doom of London - Fred M. WHITE
- Author: Fred M. WHITE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Here are six stories, each one describing a disaster afflicting London, that were popularly serialized during 1903-1904 in Pearsonβs Magazine. The tales depict (1) a deep freeze and unprecedented snowfall; (2) a heavy, blinding, paralyzing blanket...
Rough and Ready OR Life Among the New York Newsboys - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Rough and Ready OR Life Among the New York Newsboys - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Join Rough and Ready for his adventure on the streets of New York City. Working as a newsboy, Rough and Ready tries to support himself and his sister on his meager earnings. Unfortunately, their stepfather is seeking to kidnap little Rose, getting...
John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Author: William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the story of John Deane of Nottingham, a person who, according to the author, really existed. John Deane is born in 1679 to wealthy parents, but starts out in relative poverty, working as a drover around London. He then goes to sea and rises...
Gunman's Reckoning - Max Brand
Gunman's Reckoning - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. His efforts to recover hers and her father's gold mine claims is the story. Not a lot of shoot...
The Ultimate Weapon - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
The Ultimate Weapon - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Author: John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his...
Abandoned - Jules Verne
Abandoned - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a wounded animal--one which must have been fired within the previous three months. The men propose to build a...
Fair Margaret - H. Rider Haggard
Fair Margaret - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This story is set during the reign of King Henry VII. Peter Brome is a poor man and without a father, and is in love with Margaret the dark-eyed daughter of John Castell, the kindly and wealthy merchant who has taken care of him and raised him....
White Fang - Jack London
White Fang - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
br>White Fang (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful Call of the Wild (1903). It is the tale of a wild dog born in the wild and eventually brought to civilization. The story is viewed primarily through the eyes of its...
Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for grammar school children. Tells how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the island, providing shelter, food, and clothing for himself from the few tools he rescued from the ship and...
The Splendid Outcast - George Gibbs
The Splendid Outcast - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
_What else?_βWhat else had happened? Something to do with the remarkable likeness between himself and Harry? The likeness,βso strong that only their own mother had been able to tell them apart. Memory came to him with a rush. He remembered now what...
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn - Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where...
A Study In Scarlet (Version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study In Scarlet (Version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the story in 1886, and it was...
Treasure Island (Version 4) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (Version 4) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a room at his inn and later dies. The map spreads its ill luck to all who know of it.A local squire outfits a...
The Ivory Child - H. Rider Haggard
The Ivory Child - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Allan Quatermain's first adventure with Lord Ragnall. (Introduction by laineyben)...
The Secret of Casa Grande - Helen RANDOLPH
The Secret of Casa Grande - Helen RANDOLPH
- Author: Helen RANDOLPH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Action & Adventure
While visiting their friend, Florence, at her home in Mexico, Jo Ann and Peggy noticed a barred window which has no opening into any of the rooms of an ancient adobe house. Curious to find out what it is, the girls tried to investigate but no one...
The Mystery of the Chinese Ring - Andy ADAMS
The Mystery of the Chinese Ring - Andy ADAMS
- Author: Andy ADAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Mystery of the Chinese Ring is an exotic adventure story and is set in locations such as Burma and China, with the historical and political ramifications which applied to the mid Twentieth Century and still ring true in the early 21st Century....
The Invisible Man (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Terrifically popular science fiction novel by renowned writer HG Wells, about a scientist discovering how to achieve invisibility. But, in his case, being out of sight evidently does NOT mean out of mind. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
Treasure Island (version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the...
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George EMERSON
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George EMERSON
- Author: Willis George EMERSON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a world peopled with giants....
The Outlaw of Torn - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Outlaw of Torn - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort. Norman is the supposed son of the Frenchman de...
An American Robinson Crusoe - Samuel B. ALLISON
An American Robinson Crusoe - Samuel B. ALLISON
- Author: Samuel B. ALLISON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his parents' wishes. The ship (and all of its crew) is lost in a storm, but Robinson makes it to a deserted island. He...
