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William Clark Russell - Frozen Pirate (version 2)

Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound vessel in the South Atlantic, while captaining a pirate ship. Russell has been...

Marilyn Rakes and 12 more 11 hours 19 minutes

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William Clark Russell - Phantom Death and Other Stories

This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories written by William Clark Russell in 1893. The stories are for the most part set on ships and bring the reader on board for ghostly nights, wonderful...

James K. White and 6 more 7 hours 23 minutes

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Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates

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Charles S. Brooks - Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates

We had hoped that our drama's scene might lie on a pirate ship at sea. We had wished for a swaying mast, full-set with canvas—a typhoon to smother our stage in wind. We had hoped to walk a victim off the plank, with...

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William Henry Giles Kingston - Three Lieutenants

A few years have passed since the adventures of Terence, Jack, and Alick as midshipmen in the British Navy. They have each gone on their paths and climbed the ranks, and now is the time that they seek to get back into...

Jim Locke 18 hours 54 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales

This lively collection of stories by Q, aka the imaginative and prolific man of letters Arthur Quiller-Couch, includes tales of mystery, horror, and adventure. Beware. There will be ghosts, pirates, scholars, death,...

Kate Follis and 3 more 11 hours 5 minutes

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Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple

Peter Simple, 'the fool of the family', son of a parson but heir presumptive to a title, goes to sea as midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. Naturally, at sea in this period is where adventures are just waiting for...

Sylviamb and 7 more 16 hours 12 minutes

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William Henry Giles Kingston - Three Midshipmen

This is the start of a series of four books following three friends through their career in the navy. Terence, Jack and Alick first meet at a boarding school, and become fast friends, not least because together they...

EMBischoff and 11 more 17 hours 16 minutes

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Harry Collingwood - Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

Eric Blackburn's strange adventures begin when the ship on which he is engaged as fourth officer is struck by an enormous meteorite and sinks within minutes, and Blackburn is the sole survivor out of the 535 people on...

Tom Penn and 6 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Poison Island

Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds “a poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paint”....

Daniel Goodson and 10 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Gerhart Hauptmann - Atlantis

Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated...

Margaret Espaillat 13 hours 59 minutes

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George Gibbs - In Search of Mademoiselle

Preface note by George Gibbs: There were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts of the French people to gain a permanent foothold on our shores… The most...

Tony Oliva 11 hours 26 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (version 5)

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...

Kara Shallenberg 6 hours 34 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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