Action & Adventure

The Pawns Count

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.5
"I am for England and England only," John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted."I am for Japan and Japan only," Nikasti,…

High Adventure

by James Norman Hall Read by John W. Michaels 4.6
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unp…

A Study in Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.6
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…

The House by the Lock

by Alice Muriel Williamson Read by Roger Melin 4.5
What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house?A body …

After London, or Wild England

by Richard Jefferies Read by Ruth Golding 4.4
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has …

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, T…

Storm Over Warlock

by Andre Norton Read by Andre Norton 4.4
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that …

Völsungasaga

by William Morris and William James McGlothlin Read by Corpang 4.6
The 13th century Icelandic Völsungasaga is usually read by people studying the Poetic Edda or Wagner's Ring - which obscures the fact i…

Among Malay Pirates

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
G. A . Henty was a prolific writer of historical fiction for young adults. In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, hav…

Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Winston Tharp 4.7
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…

The Amateur Cracksman

by E. W. Hornung Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4.5
"I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial bille…

The Emerald City of Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by Judy Bieber 4.6
The Emerald City of Oz (1910) was the sixth Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, a title he hoped would be the last. In this book, Dorothy and …

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas Read by David Clarke 4.9
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. He completed the work in 1844. The story takes pl…

King Arthur and His Knights

by Maude L. Radford Warren Read by Robin Cotter 4.4
A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian …

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

By Pike and Dyke

by G. A. Henty Read by David Leeson 4.6
It is the 1570's, and the people of the Netherlands live in terror under the cruel dominion of Spain. Though many long to be free of Spanish…

In the Reign of Terror

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France t…

Michael Strogoff

by Jules Verne Read by David Leeson 4.6
This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city…

The Doings of Raffles Haw

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Patrick Wells 4.5
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors sprea…

A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandi…

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