Action & Adventure Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Enchanted Castle

Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the center of a maze. Or...

Peter Eastman 8 hours 33 minutes

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Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English novel. Based on the real-life experiences of the castaway Alexander...

Denny Sayers 13 hours 55 minutes

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Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

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»...

Lizzie Driver 11 hours 23 minutes

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Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology and engineering that...

Marlo Dianne and 26 more 16 hours 11 minutes

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Rafael Sabatini - Scaramouche

Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him...

Gord Mackenzie 17 hours 12 minutes

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Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

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Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adventures on the way. (Alex Foster)

Alex Foster and 12 more 6 hours 33 minutes

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Rafael Sabatini - Captain Blood

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...

Denny Sayers and 11 more 12 hours 12 minutes

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Jack London - White Fang

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...

Gord Mackenzie and 8 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon’s Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan...

John Nicholson 9 hours 51 minutes

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Anthony Hope - Prisoner of Zenda

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...

Andy Minter 5 hours 42 minutes

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote - Vol. 1

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he...

Chip and 16 more 21 hours 16 minutes

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Herman Melville - Typee

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...

Michael Scherer 11 hours 42 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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