Action Adventure Books
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Lheroine Du Colorado
[french | 1918]Gustave Le Rouge
Summary: [Laction met aux prises deux compagnies de construction de chemin de fer rivales Trust fonde par le Gnral Todd Holmes et Coast dirige par le machiavlique Fritz Dixler dans le but daccaparer au profit de lAllemagne tout le rseau des voies ferres du Colorado. Suite la mort prmature du Gnral sa fille Helen avec laide de lingnieur Hamilton et du dvou mcanicien Georges Storm devra multiplier les ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 396
Moon Of Israel
[english | 1918]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [First published November 1918. This edition has been designed and typeset exclusively for the Reincarnation Library.:--Verso of t.p.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 317
When The World Shook
[english | 1918]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [The Cartoons that Shook the World is a 2009 book by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen about the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. Klausen contends that the controversy was deliberately stoked up by people with vested interests on all sides and argues against the view that it was based on a cultural misunderstanding about the depiction of Muhammad. The book itself caused ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 422
Hearts Of Three
[english | 1918]Jack London
Summary: [Originally intended as a film scenario this plot is an improbably adventure story that cant help but bring to mind the Lost Ark films of decades later!]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 364
The Red One
[english | 1918]Jack London
Summary: [Features the haunting title novella well worth comparing to Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 244
The Grizzly King
[english | 1918]James Oliver Curwood
Summary: [As in human life there are tragedy and humour and pathos in the life of the wild there are facts of tremendous interest real happenings and real lives to be written about and very small necessity for one to draw on imagination. (This book was the inspiration for French director Jean-Jacques Annauds 1988 film The Bear.)]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 470
The Wolf Hunters
[english | 1918]James Oliver Curwood
Summary: [A thrilling tale of adventure in the Canadian wilderness.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 358
Harrigan
[english | 1918]Max Brand
Summary: [With gusts of wind fanning it roughly the flame rose fast. Harrigan made other journeys to the rotten stump and wrenched away great chunks of bark and wood. He came back and piled them on the fire. It towered high the upper tongues twisting among the branches of the tree. They laid Kate Malone between the windbreak and the fire. In a short time her trembling ceased she turned her face to the ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 436
Brood Of The Witch Queen
[english | 1918]Sax Rohmer
Summary: [There was sincerity in the appeal spoken in the softest most silvern tone which he had ever heard. He stood beside the veiled woman and met the glance of her dark eyes with a consciousness of some magnetic force in the glance which seemed to set his nerves quivering.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | fantasy] Downloads: 275
Tom Swift And His War Tank
[english | 1918]Victor Appleton
Summary: [Tom Swift And His War Tank Or Doing His Bit For Uncle Sam Classic Reprint by Victor Appleton. TOM SWIFT AND HIS WAR TANK CHAPTER I past memories Ceasing his restless walk up and down the room Tom Swift strode to the window and gazed across the field toward the many buildings where machines were turning out the products evolved from the brains of his father and himself. There was a worried look on ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | science fiction] Downloads: 127
The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel
[english | 1919]Baroness Emma Orczy
Summary: [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale The Scarlet Pimpernel. Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919 the book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeneys exploits in rescuing various aristos and French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine. The stories which are listed below are set in 1793 but appear in no ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 217
On The Makaloa Mat
[english | 1919]Jack London
Summary: [The best Hawaii stories and among Londons best stories overall including Shin Bones and The Water Baby.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 20
The Rivers End
[english | 1919]James Oliver Curwood
Summary: [The Rivers of Zadaa is the sixth novel in the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 218
The Curse Of Capistrano The Mark Of Zorro
[english | 1919]Johnston Mcculley
Summary: [The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 novella by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). After the enormous success of the 1920 film adaptation The Mark of Zorro the story was republished under that name. Prior to being published in novella form The Curse of Capistrano appeared as five serialized installments in the pulp ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | romance] Downloads: 299
Tom Swift And His Air Scout
[english | 1919]Victor Appleton
Summary: [Tom Swift (in some versions Tom Swift Jr. ) is the name of the central character in five series totaling over 100 volumes of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science invention and technology. The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer the founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate a book-packaging firm. His adventures have been written by a number of different ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | science fiction] Downloads: 457
Tarzan The Untamed
[english | 1920]Edgar Rice Burroughs
Summary: [Verso of t.p.: Published April 1920.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 131
Thuvia Maid Of Mars
[english | 1920]Edgar Rice Burroughs
Summary: [This installment shifts focus from John Carter and Dejah Thoris protagonists of the first three books in the series to their son Carthoris prince of Helium and to Thuvia princess of Ptarth and follows Carthoris efforts to win the heart of Thuvia who will have nothing to do with him. When Thuvia is kidnapped Carthoris is presented with an opportunity -- throw in an airship battle lost cities ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | science fiction] Downloads: 487
The Great Impersonation
[english | 1920]Edward Phillips Oppenheim
Summary: [Excerpt:The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin spiral wisps of smoke urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing. It developed the next morning when he ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | mystery detective] Downloads: 57
Rouletabille Chez Krupp
[french | 1920]Gaston Leroux
Summary: [Rouletabille est arrach aux tranches pour se voir confier une mission despionnage : il dot se rendre en Allemagne et dlivrer un savant franais avant quil ne livre sa terrible invention lennemi. Le reporter part avec ses compagnons La Candeur et Vladimir...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 149
West Wind Drift
[english | 1920]George Barr Mccutcheon
Summary: [The romantic story of the shipwreck of a great modern liner on an uninhabited island where the passengers built homes established a government created laws and enforced them and kept the fires of courage burning through the years that followed.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | romance] Downloads: 267