Action & Adventure Fiction

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Thomas Wallace Knox - Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories

This is a collection of 22 stories of action and adventure. We follow the narrators as they escape pirates and cannibals, overcome natural disasters, and are attacked by wild animals. Cunning plans are executed and...

Michael F. Plueger Sr. and 9 more 6 hours 4 minutes

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Johnston McCulley - Curse of Capistrano (Dramatic Reading)

The Curse of Capistrano is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (the Spanish word for «fox»). The story was later republished under the name The Mark of Zorro. The outlaw Zorro is Public Enemy #1 in...

7 hours 52 minutes

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John Neihardt - Splendid Wayfaring

Quote: «In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansion of our nation beyond the Missouri. I have made Jedediah Smith the central...

Phil Schempf 6 hours 45 minutes

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G. A. Henty - Tales from the Works of G.A.Henty

George Alfred Henty was an English newspaper correspondent who became a prolific author of, predominantly, adventure stories for boys. Most were based on true historical events. In this volume, published posthumously,...

John-Paul Nelson and 9 more 4 hours 15 minutes

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William Henry Hudson - Purple Land

In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: “The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 12 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Hoofbeats on the Turnpike

Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the «Riverview...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 41 minutes

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Alain René Lesage - Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane

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...

Jim Locke 34 hours 25 minutes

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Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend

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...

Gillian Hendrie and 14 more 26 hours 47 minutes

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Robert Barr - Chicago Princess

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...

Judy Guinan and 6 more 7 hours 22 minutes

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Short Science Fiction Collection 057

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Craig Franklin and 13 more 8 hours 39 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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James Edwin Gunn - Breaking Point

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...

Peter Eastman 2 hours 10 minutes

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John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea

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William Henry Giles Kingston - John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea

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...

April6090 and 6 more 12 hours 5 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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