Adventure Books
The Master Key
L. Frank BaumThe Master Key was one of Baum's earliest full length fantasy books for children, published in 1901 just one year after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The protagonist, Rob, while experimenting in his wor..
Trips to the Moon
Samosata LucianThe endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon wonder, Lucian first condemned in his Instructions for Writ..
The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Great Shadow, also known as The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.W. Arrowsmith’s Bristol Libra..
De Ongelikte Beer
Jack LondonDe Ongelikte Beer is the Dutch version of Jack London's boxing story The Game, a novel by Jack London about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports repor..
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
Jules VerneDick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. It deals primarily with the issue of slavery, and the African slave trade by other Africans in particular. Several adaptations..
Meister Zacharius
Jules VerneMeister Zacharius is the German version of Jules Verne's story A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories.Meister Zacharius ist ein Uhrmacher in Genf und berühmt für die Genauigkeit seiner..
The Bars of Iron
Ethel M. DellThey stood in the garish light of a Queensland bar, surrounded by an eager, gaping crowd of farmers, boundary-riders, sheep-shearers, who had come down to this township on the coast on business or ple..
The Lost House
Richard Harding DavisAustin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is ..