Adventure

A Little Maid of Ticonderoga

Alice Turner Curtis

A Little Maid of Ticonderoga is a juvenile historical novel that places a ten‑year‑old girl, Faith Carew, in…

Rollo on the Atlantic

Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott’s “Rollo on the Atlantic” is a mid‑nineteenth‑century juvenile travel narrative that blends…

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

Knowles, James, Sir; Malory, Thomas, Sir

The work is a Victorian‑era compilation that brings together the full range of Thomas Malory’s Arthurian…

The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires; Or, The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail

Laura Dent Crane

The novel is a spirited adventure aimed at young readers, featuring a troupe of girls who call themselves…

The Magic Soap Bubble

David Cory

The story is a whimsical fantasy adventure aimed at younger readers, opening with a sudden, magical…

Des Feldpredigers Schmelzle Reise nach Flätz mit fortgehenden Noten

Jean Paul

Der Text ist ein satirischer Zirkelbrief des fiktiven Feldpredigers Schmelzle, in dem er seine angebliche…

Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin

Reuben Bertram Oldfield

The book is a lively juvenile tale that follows the everyday adventures of Mister Robert Robin, a…

The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

Various

The Idler Magazine, Vol III (May 1893) is an illustrated monthly of assorted pieces, and this excerpt plunges…

A Cousin's Conspiracy; Or, A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance

Horatio Alger, Jr.

A Cousin's Conspiracy; Or, A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance is a juvenile adventure that opens in a rural…

Alaeddin und die Wunderlampe aus Tausend und eine Nacht

Curt Moreck

Der Text ist ein Märchen für Kinder, das die Geschichte des jungen Alaeddin erzählt, eines verwahrlosten…

Pathfinder; or, The Missing Tenderfoot

Douglas, Alan, Captain

The Argonauts of California: being the reminiscenses of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in the early mining days

Charles Warren Haskins

Charles Warren Haskins’s The Argonauts of California is a first‑person recollection of the early mining era,…

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878

Various

Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol.

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Kim is a sprawling adventure that follows a half‑English orphan named Kim as he weaves through the bustling…

The Boy Scout Automobilists; Or, Jack Danby in the Woods

Robert Maitland

The story is a juvenile adventure that places a troop of Boy Scouts at the centre of a mock military…

徐霞客遊記

Hongzu Xu

Wandl the Invader

Ray Cummings

Wandl the Invader is a mid‑century science‑fiction adventure that opens in the summer of 2070, when a…

The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet

Kenneth Ward

The novel is a wartime adventure aimed at younger readers, set against the backdrop of World War I naval…

The Tale of Jolly Robin

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Jolly Robin is a juvenile fiction story that follows a young robin’s early life in a nest, his…

Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates

Charles S. Brooks

The work is a stage comedy that lampoons the conventions of pirate drama while indulging in the theatrical…

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

The work is the concluding segment of Alexandre Dumas’s sprawling D’Artagnan Romances, a historical‑fiction…

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827.

Edgar Allan Poe

The work is a first‑person sea narrative that blends travelogue, personal confession, and the promise of a…

Siegfried, der Held

Rudolf Herzog

Der Roman „Siegfried, der Held“ von Rudolf Herzog ist ein episches Märchen, das im sagenhaften Niederrhein…

The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald

The story is a fairy‑tale fantasy aimed at younger readers, introducing Princess Irene, an eight‑year‑old…