Action & Adventure
Queen Sheba's Ring
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H. Rider Haggard
A famed archeologist, an aging doctor, and a young army engineer set out across the African desert on a great adventure. Professor Higgs is …
A Day at the County Fair
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Alice Hale Burnett
Three little friends are taken to the County Fair in Uncle Billy's motorcar, but a slight delay occurs on the way. How they finally arrived …
The Shadow of the North
Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan
Joseph A. Altsheler
"The Shadow of the North," while an independent story, in itself, is also the second volume of the Great French and Indian War ser…
Rough and Ready OR Life Among the New York Newsboys
Read by Tori Faulder
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Join Rough and Ready for his adventure on the streets of New York City. Working as a newsboy, Rough and Ready tries to support himself and h…
The Prince and the Pauper (version 3)
Read by Luke Sieburg
Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive …
In the Pecos Country
Read by Thomas Rose
Edward S. Ellis
Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…
Abandoned
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William Clark Russell
We meet Miss Lucretia Lane as she is dressing for her marriage to Captain Francis Reynolds of the British Merchant Service. Though he loves …
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
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G. A. Henty
In all history, there is no drama of more terrible interest than that which terminated with the total destruction of Jerusalem. Had the whol…
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II
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François Rabelais
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…
The Purple Cloud
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Matthew Phipps Shiel and M. P. Shiel
The story, a recording of a medium's meditation over the future writing of the text, details the narrator's (Adam Jeffson's) expedition to t…
Captain Antifer
Read by Joseph DeNoia
Jules Verne
“No good deed goes Unpunished”, as the saying goes. A wealthy Egyptian leaves millions of buried treasure on an island and sends the locatio…
The Rover Boys in the Jungle
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Arthur M. Winfield
Third entry in the then-popular boys' adventure series has the Rover brothers (Tom, Dick, & Sam) heading to Africa to search for their l…
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck
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Robert Pitcher Woodward and R. Pitcher Woodward
"A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting…
The Spirit of Bambatse
Read by Phil Benson
H. Rider Haggard
A romance, a shipwreck and a hunt for buried Portuguese treasure in the Transvaal. All the ingredients of an imperial adventure that made Ha…
Pirates of Venus
Read by Phil Chenevert
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs, of Tarzan fame, wrote many great adventure stories that were serialized in the magazines of t he 1930s. This is the fi…
Around The Campfire
Read by David Wales
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Action and adventure short stories of men and animals in the wild. - Summary by David Wales
The Story of King Arthur, in Twelve Tales
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Winona Caroline Martin
Of all the legends of bygone ages which we in the foremost ranks of time may call our own perhaps none have come to us so fraught with the s…
Stolen Souls
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William Le Queux
This is a collection of 14 of William le Queux' best mystery stories. (Summary by Carolin)
The Dragon of Wantley
Read by D. A. Frank
Owen Wister
The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, a…
The Tale of Henrietta Hen
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Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Henrietta Hen is a cute children's book filled with the adventures of a hen named Henrietta. (Summary by SarahParshall)