Adventure Books

The Ivory Trail

Talbot Mundy

The Ivory Trail is an adventure novel written by Talbot Mundy, an English writer during the early 20th century who wrote historical and sci-fi novels that proved very influential on subsequent generat..

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

James Hadley Chase

No Orchids For Miss Blandish is a 1939 crime novel by the British writer James Hadley Chase. The novel was influenced by the American crime writer James M. Cain and the stories in the pulp magazine Bl..

Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo

William Le Queux

Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo is a collection of mystery and detective stories written by William Le Queux, an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying..

De Lotgevallen van Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

De Lotgevallen van Tom Sawyer is the dutch version of Mark Twain's most popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Excerpts:Wacht! daar hoort ze plotseling een licht gedruisch achter zich en zij keer..

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form i..

Le comte de Monte-Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Edmond Dantès, a young seaman with a promising future, is arrested at his wedding ceremony under calomnious charges, and locked up in the Chateau d'If for 14 years. During this time, he secretly meets..

Les trois mousquetaires

Alexandre Dumas

Le roman raconte les aventures d'un gascon désargenté de 18 ans, d'Artagnan, monté à Paris faire carrière. Il se lie d'amitié avec Athos, Porthos et Aramis, mousquetaires du roi Louis XIII. Ces quatre..

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan and Wendy (1911) is the brainchild of Scottish playwright and novelist J.M. Barrie, who wrote the book after the the success of his play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) Be..