Adventure stories books

Across the Mesa

Helen Bagg

The novel opens with Polly Street’s restless inner monologue as she wrestles with the inconvenience of an…

Frank Merriwell Down South

Burt L. Standish

This volume is a juvenile adventure set in the Mexican frontier, where the ever‑resourceful Frank Merriwell…

The Mask: A Story of Love and Adventure

Arthur Hornblow

The opening places the reader in a richly described New‑York townhouse, where a bustling breakfast scene…

In Her Own Right

John Reed Scott

In In Her Own Right John Reed Scott weaves a tale of love, adventure, and intrigue set against the backdrop…

The Lion's Mouse

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

The novel is an adventure story that also explores a tense man‑woman relationship, as indicated by its…

The Sign of the Spider

Bertram Mitford

The novel is an adventure story set against the backdrop of South Africa’s gold‑rush era, and it opens with…

The Pagan Madonna

Harold MacGrath

The Pagan Madonna is an adventure‑mystery set against the bustling backdrop of early‑20th‑century Shanghai,…

Up The Baltic; Or, Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark

Oliver Optic

Up The Baltic is a juvenile adventure that blends nautical action with a travelogue of Scandinavia.

Queensland Cousins

Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

The novel is a juvenile adventure set on a sugar‑cane plantation in North Queensland, where the Orban…

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Robert Paltock

The work is a mid‑eighteenth‑century fantasy adventure that begins with a sweeping essay on the vanity of…

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel opens amid the fevered chaos of Revolutionary Paris, where the guillotine’s blade has…

Cesar Cascabel, Deel 2 Over het IJs en door de Steppe

Jules Verne

Dit tweede deel van Cesar Cascabel is een avontuurlijke reisroman die zich afspeelt op de bevroren wateren…

Het Geheimzinnige Eiland De Verlatene

Jules Verne

Dit verhaal, geschreven door Jules Verne, combineert science‑fiction met een avontuurlijke overlevingsroman.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville

The work is a sprawling, encyclopedic meditation on the whale, presented as a patchwork of lexicons,…

The Windy Hill

Cornelia Meigs

The Windy Hill is a youthful adventure that blends mystery with the restless energy of teenage rebellion.

The Telegraph Messenger Boy; Or, The Straight Road to Success

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The story opens with a vivid scene on a riverbank in a small town where the narrator, a telegraph office…

Cesar Cascabel: "De Schoone Zwerfster"

Jules Verne

Dit is een levendig historisch avontuur dat zich afspeelt in het Californië van 1867, een periode waarin de…

A Voyage with Captain Dynamite

Charles Edward Rich

A brisk adventure tale set on the high seas, A Voyage with Captain Dynamite follows three teenage friends,…

Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone; Or, The Plot Against Uncle Sam

G. Harvey Ralphson

The novel is an adventure story aimed at young readers, centered on a group of Boy Scouts from New York who…

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The novel begins as a Victorian adventure set against the backdrop of a perilous voyage to Africa.

The Galaxy Primes

E. E. Smith

The Galaxy Primes is a space‑faring adventure that blends science‑fiction speculation with a sharply comic,…

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

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

On the dodge

Will James

The story opens with a gritty, first‑person account of a cowboy whose prized buckskin horse has been stolen…

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

The novel is an adventure set in Africa, narrated by the veteran hunter Allan Quatermain as he recounts his…