Adventure stories books

Mardi, and a voyage thither, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Herman Melville

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither, Vol. 2 of 2 is an exotic adventure set in a mythic Polynesian archipelago.

Tarzan the Untamed

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The opening of Tarzan the Untamed thrusts the reader into a wartime jungle where a German captain, Hauptmann…

Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas

Herman Melville

Melville’s sequel to Typee plunges the reader into the gritty world of a South‑Sea whaling barque, the…

Rebilius Crūsō: Robinson Crusoe, in Latin; A Book to Lighten Tedium to a Learner

Daniel Defoe

Hoc opus est versio Latina Robinsonis Crūsō, auctore Daniel Defoe, redacta a professore Latinā et destinata…

Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics

Oliver Optic

Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight‑Seeing in the Tropics is an adventure narrative that follows a wealthy…

The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The story opens in a richly imagined kingdom where a newborn heir, described in lavish detail as the most…

Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel

Charles Lever

The novel, written by Charles Lever and first serialized in the Dublin University Magazine, is presented here…

El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

The novel is a swash‑buckling historical adventure set against the fevered backdrop of the French Revolution.

Dick Sands, the Boy Captain

Jules Verne

Tarzan the Terrible

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The story is a pulpy adventure in which the legendary ape‑man Tarzan prowls a moonlit African jungle, hunting…

The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere

Charles de Coster

The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere is a…

The Four Feathers

A. E. W. Mason

The Four Feathers is a war‑and‑love story set among a circle of retired officers who gather each year to…

Great short stories, Volume 3 (of 3): Romance & Adventure

Great short stories, Volume 3 gathers a selection of nineteenth‑century French tales that blend romance with…

The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 1 (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere

Charles de Coster

The work is a sprawling seventeenth‑century Dutch adventure saga that follows the mischievous folk‑hero…

Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers

Mark Twain

Der Roman ist ein humorvoll‑gezeichnetes Abenteuer‑ und Bildungswerk, das das junge Leben im ländlichen…

The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 2 (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere

Charles de Coster

The work is a sprawling adventure tale that follows the mischievous folk‑hero Ulenspiegel and his stout…

The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

T. Smollett

The novel presents itself as a satirical adventure that unfolds on the “great northern road” from York to…

The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life of Jack Wilton With an Essay on the Life and Writings of Thomas Nash by Edmund Gosse

Thomas Nash

The volume presents a scholarly portrait of Thomas Nash, an obscure Elizabethan writer whose surviving works…

Ayesha, the Return of She

H. Rider Haggard

The novel continues H. Rider Haggard’s blend of fantasy and adventure, picking up the legend of Ayesha, the…

The Vicomte de Bragelonne; Or, Ten Years Later Being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" and "Twenty Years After"

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Typee

Herman Melville

The Ebb-Tide: A Trio And Quartette

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd

Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City: His Progress and Adventures

S. R. Crockett

Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2

Henry Fielding