Adventure Books

Sir Percy Leads the Band

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

First published in 1936, Sir Percy Leads the Band is (chronologically) the second of the Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy. The novel is set in January and February 1793 and follows on from t..

Rupert of Hentzau

Anthony Hope

Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim is a Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda written by Anthony Hope, an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especi..

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights

Thomas Malory

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights is a collection of stories for children written by Sir Thomas Malory. The book consists of a large series of episodes in the legend of the mythological first k..

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Selma Lagerlöf

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a collection of short adventure stories written for children and juvenile readers by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. She was the first female writer to win the ..

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking ..

A Dog of Flanders

Ouida

A Dog of Flanders is an 1872 novel by English author Marie Louise de la Ramée published with her pseudonym "Ouida". It is about a Flemish boy named Nello and his dog, Patrasche and is set in Antwerp.&..

The Adventures of Arabella

Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two years after she ..

The Elusive Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Des..