Adventure

The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure

Bannister Merwin

The novel opens on a bustling State Street in Chicago, where the practical‑minded lawyer Robert Orme watches…

The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive

Emerson Hough

The work is a light‑hearted adventure tale that blends the genteel world of a late‑nineteenth‑century…

Hurricane Island

H. B. Marriott Watson

The novel is a Victorian‑era adventure narrated by a disillusioned London doctor who practices his trade in…

The Aztec Treasure-House

Thomas A. Janvier

The Aztec Treasure‑House is a work of historical fiction that places its narrator, a self‑described…

The Hero of Garside School

Panting, J. Harwood,

The Hero of Garside School is a juvenile adventure that opens with a somber portrait of Paul Percival, a…

Cantoni il volontario

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Il romanzo di Giuseppe Garibaldi, “Cantoni il volontario”, è una narrazione di tipo storico‑fantasy che si…

A Woman who went to Alaska

May Kellogg Sullivan

The work is a first‑person memoir that chronicles a woman’s eighteen‑month sojourn among the roughest mining…

Footprints in the Forest

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The work is a juvenile adventure set in the American frontier, continuing the tale begun in “Campfire and…

The Magic Pudding

Norman Lindsay

The Magic Pudding is a whimsical Australian fantasy that opens with a playful portrait of Bunyip Bluegum, a…

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old

Florence Partello Stuart

The work is a juvenile adventure set in the Philippines, written by Florence Partello Stuart and framed as a…

The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The story opens with a brisk exchange between a self‑styled detective, Stockham Calvert, and three teenage…

Crooked Trails and Straight

William MacLeod Raine

Crooked Trails and Straight is a fast‑moving Western that thrusts the reader straight into the dust‑choked…

Prairie Flowers

James B. Hendryx

Prairie Flowers is a Western tale that opens with a lively domestic scene, where a husband and wife banter…

Free Air

Sinclair Lewis

The novel opens with Claire Boltwood behind the wheel of a Gomez‑Deperdussin roadster, battling a relentless…

Great Pirate Stories

This volume is a collection of historic pirate narratives, introduced by a reflective foreword that frames…

The Son of Monte-Cristo

Jules Lermina

The Son of Monte‑Cristo continues the sweeping adventure of Alexandre Dumas’ original saga by focusing on…

With Cochrane the Dauntless

G. A. Henty

The work is a biographical adventure novel that dramatizes the life of Thomas Cochrane, the celebrated…

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries

Francis Rolt-Wheeler

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries is an adventure tale aimed at younger readers that places a spirited boy,…

Klondike Nuggets, and How Two Boys Secured Them

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The novel is a youthful adventure set against the feverish backdrop of the Klondike gold rush.

Witch-Doctors

Charles Beadle

The novel is a colonial adventure set in a German‑run outpost on the shores of Victoria Nyanza.

When dreams come true

Ritter Brown

When the narrative opens, it places the reader in the blazing midsummer of Chihuahua, describing the stark…

The Chauffeur and the Chaperon

Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris); Williamson, A. M.

New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

E. Nesbit

The story opens with the Bastable children recounting a bustling summer holiday at the Moat House, where an…

The Gold Girl

James B. Hendryx

The Gold Girl is a Western adventure that plunges the reader straight into the rugged wilderness of a…