Action & Adventure Fiction

461 books

All Stories Novels

New TOP Discussed

24 hrs 7 days 30 days All the time

Action & Adventure Fiction

536

George Gordon, Lord Byron - Giaour

«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...

1 hour 2 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

475

George MacDonald - Cruel Painter

This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice...

Ned Troxel 1 hour 23 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

426

Booth Tarkington - Monsieur Beaucaire

A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. Since the duke himself hopes to mend his fortunes by wedding this very woman,...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 29 minutes

No comments

Children's Fiction

451

Ethel Twycross Foster - Little Tales of the Desert

A six year-old girl named Mary spends Christmas vacation with her parents in the Arizona desert of 1901 or thereabouts. ( Summary by BellonaTimes )

Bellona Times 47 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

462

Charles Dickens - Wreck of the Golden Mary

A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summary by JCarson )

James E. Carson 1 hour 20 minutes

No comments

Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

Action & Adventure Fiction

464

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights around a camp-fire, and long days on the trail. It is about a party of all sorts,...

Laura Victoria 1 hour 28 minutes

No comments

עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club

Action & Adventure Fiction

449

יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner - עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club

This is a bilingual project. The first part, in Hebrew, is the story «Injustice» by Yosef Haim Brenner, written following the conquest of Palestine by the British troops during WWI. The story takes place on the...

Omri Lernau 1 hour 18 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

444

Lee Hawkins Garby - Subspace Survivors

A team of space travelers are caught in a subspace accident which, up to now, no one has ever survived. But some of the survivors of the Procyon are not ordinary travelers. Their psi abilities allow them to see things...

Juliana M. and 1 more 1 hour 26 minutes

No comments

Ottawa Folk Festival Robert Service Collection

Action & Adventure Fiction

438

Robert W. Service - Ottawa Folk Festival Robert Service Collection

On August 13-15, 2010, A hearty band of Librivox volunteers, led by Bob Ledrew and Sean McGaughey, recorded selections from the Spell of the Yukon by Robert Service with patrons, musicians and organizers of the...

Sean McGaughey 51 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

568

H. Rider Haggard - Tale of Three Lions

Taking place in the heart of Africa, “The Tale of Three Lions” is one more thrilling adventure from the eventful life of old hunter Quatermain, the famous hero of “King Solomons Mines”. This time, though there are no...

Kristine Bekere 1 hour 13 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

508

A. Frank Pinkerton - Won by Crime

Originally included with the published edition of Dyke Darell, this is an unrelated novella. Portuguese Viceroy to Goa, Don Garcia brought his daughter and nephew to the wild island. Adventure and melodrama ensue!...

Sibella Denton 1 hour 21 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

480

Robert E. Howard - Red Shadows

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...

Paul Siegel 1 hour 2 minutes

No comments

New

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

Show all