Adventure Books

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Perhaps the basis for every Scooby Doo episode ever made, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a story by Washington Irving, published pseudonymously in "The Sketch Book Geoffrey Crayon" in 1820. The story ..

The Phantom Rickshaw

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888) is a collection of haunting tales by Rudyard Kipling. The celebrated Nobel prize winner wrote this collection while living in British controlled Indi..

The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

"The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909 and first published in two parts in Harper's Magazine in 1910. It was later included in the shor..

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim t..

Tom Sawyer Detective

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to..

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

The Canterville Ghost is a novella by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887...

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country. The Secr..

The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows

Joseph Conrad

The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steam..