Category Archives: Action & Adventure Fiction
Prisoner of the Mill
Author(s): Harry Hazelton Subtitled “Captain Hayward’s Body Guard”. An adventure story for boys.
Minos of Sardanes
Author(s): Charles B. Stilson The micro cosmos of Sardanes faces macro calamity as climatic disruption...
Mating in the Wilds
Author(s): Ottwell Binns An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict...
Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain
Author(s): H. Rider Haggard This is a superb sweeping romantic adventure story of how Alan...
Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (Version 2)
Author(s): Daniel DefoeLucy Aikin This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character —...
Nobody’s Boy
Author(s): Hector Malot One day, French mason Jerome Barberin finds an abandoned baby boy. As...
Queen Sheba’s Ring
Author(s): H. Rider Haggard A famed archeologist, an aging doctor, and a young army engineer...
John MacNab
Author(s): John Buchan Sir Edward Leithen and his friends Lord Lamancha, Palliser-Yeates, and Archie Roylance...
In Search of the Castaways
Author(s): Jules Verne The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of...
Imperial Marriage
Author(s): Arthur W. Marchmont An Imperial Marriage is an action novel, set in Berlin, the...
Lord Jim
Author(s): Joseph Conrad A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of...
Isobel
Author(s): James Oliver Curwood Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches...
Heart of Darkness (version 2)
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its...
Harrigan
Author(s): Max Brand A gripping nautical tale set in Hawaii and upon the open sea....
John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
Author(s): William Henry Giles Kingston This is the story of John Deane of Nottingham, a...
Juju
Author(s): Murray Leinster A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa. – Summary by david...
King Solomon’s Mines
When H. Rider Haggard accepted a five-shilling wager from his brother that he could not...
Heu-Heu, or the Monster
Author(s): H. Rider Haggard At the instigation of the witch doctor Zikal, hunter Allan Quartermain...
In Search of Treasure
Author(s): Horatio Alger, Jr. Guy Fenwick is a bright boy of 16 who lives with...
Lad of Mettle
Author(s): Nat Gould When Edgar Foster came to Redbank School he was sixteen, small for...
Huntingtower
Author(s): John Buchan Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in...
‘Farewell, Nikola’
Author(s): Guy Boothby Farewell Nikola is the fifth and last novel of the Dr Nikola...
God’s Country—And the Woman
Author(s): James Oliver Curwood James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909...
Christopher Quarles College Professor and Master Detective
Author(s): Percy James Brebner Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting...
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Author(s): Jules Verne Join three intrepid explorers as they seek to cross and explore the...
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
Author(s): Jules Verne First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an...
Frey and his Wife
Author(s): Maurice Henry Hewlett Frey and his Wife is a Nordic Saga, but written in...
Fair Margaret
Author(s): H. Rider Haggard This story is set during the reign of King Henry VII....
Cripps the Carrier
Author(s): Richard Doddridge Blackmore Esther Cripps, the younger sister of the Carrier, Zacchary Cripps, witnesses...
Edmond Dantès
Author(s): Edmund Flagg “Edmond Dantès” the Sequel to Alexander Dumas’ masterpiece, “The Count of Monte-Cristo,”...