Adventure Books

The Master Key

L. Frank Baum

The 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 Lucian

The 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 Doyle

The 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 London

De 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 Verne

Dick 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 Verne

Meister 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. Dell

They 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 Davis

Austin 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 ..