Action Adventure Books

Ange Pitou Tome Ii Les Memoires Dun Medecin

  [french | 1851]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Suite du cycle Les mmoires dun mdecin. Gilbert llve de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et lami de Balsamo que lon croyait mort (voir Joseph Balsamo) revient en France aprs un sjour en Amrique o il a mis au service de la libert ses talents de philosophe et de mdecin. peine arriv au Havreil se fait arrter alors que dans le mme temps on vole un coffret lui appartenant et quil avait confi au fermier Billot de ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 324

Arms And The Woman

  [english | 1899]  

Harold Macgrath

Summary: [The story is a blending of the romance and adventure of the middle ages with nineteenth century men and women and they are creations of flesh and blood and not mere pictures of past centuries. The story is about Jack Winthrop a newspaper man. Mr. MacGraths finest bit of character drawing is seen in Hillars the broken down newspaper man and Jacks chum.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | romance] Downloads: 393

Around The World In Eighty Days

  [english | 1872]  

Jules Verne

Summary: [Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow Vernes hero traverses the far reaches of the earth all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 271

At The Earths Core

  [english | 1914]  

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Excerpts: [... and vigorous muscles. Nor was my belief mere vanity, for always had my physique been the envy and despair of my fellows. And for that very reason ...... lay before us within the bowels of the earth, and so we might continue to hope for the best, at least until we were dead-when hope would no longer be ...... little or no forehead. Their arms were rather longer and their legs ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 296

Au Pays Des Brumes

  [french | 1926]  

Arthur Conan Doyle

Summary: [Ce roman nous emmne en voyage dans la vieille Angleterre dans le monde du spiritisme et de la voyance. Le journaliste Edward Mallone mne lenqute auprs des mdiums et dans les runions spiritistes. A la dcouverte des fantmes et des esprits il fait dtranges rencontres dans un univers o le surnaturel ctoie la supercherie.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | occult supernatural] Downloads: 171

Aventures De Lyderic

  [french | 1839]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [La lgende de Lyderic premier comte de Flandre au VIIe sicle.En 628le prince de Dijon Salwart succombe sous les coups du gigantesque prince Phinard de Buck dans une fort des Flandres. Sa femme Ermengarde a juste le temps de cacher leur fils Lyderic dans un buisson avant dtre faite prisonnire. Le bb est sauv de la mort par une biche qui le nourrit et un vieil ermite qui llve. Il devient vite dune ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 349

Ayesha

  [english | 1905]  

Henry Rider Haggard

Excerpts: [... And I am strong, I may live another fifty years. What then can you do? I asked. I can take a short road to knowledge-or to peace, he answered solemnly, ...... nor expected disturbance. We wondered whether the man from beyond the mountains was as good as his word and had brought down the vengeance of that priestess ...... by Leo shaking me and saying- Come here, Horace, I have ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 85

Back To Gods Country And Other Stories

  [english | 1920]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [After her father is killed by an outlaw Dolores marries Peter. While at sea in the Arctic Dolores meets the ships captain -- the man who killed her father! The captain causes an accident to happen to Peter so Dolores is all alone and defenseless as they drop anchor in a remote harbor.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 40

Bardelys The Magnificent

  [english | 1905]  

Rafael Sabatini

Summary: [An absorbing story of love and adventure in France of the early seventeenth century.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 269

Baree Son Of Kazan

  [english | 1917]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [The story of the son of the blind Grey Wolf and the gallant part he played in the lives of a man and a woman.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | westerns] Downloads: 59

Beatrice

  [english | 1890]  

Henry Rider Haggard

Excerpts: [... face like that which upon this day first dawned on Geoffrey Bingham to his sorrow and his hope. It was strong and pure and sweet as the keen sea breath, ...... and the crowd ran after them. Who is the other? somebody asked. Mr. Bingham-the tall lawyer who came down from London the other day. Tell policeman-run ...... citadelled within the silent heart, that no human skill could ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 244

Before Adam

  [english | 1907]  

Jack London

Summary: [Adam Copeland on Edge is an autobiographical book written WWE professional wrestler Adam Copeland better known by his ring name Edge. The first hardcover edition was published by WWE Books and distributed by Pocket Books on November 4 2004. A paperback edition was released on October 11 2005 and a Kindle edition on May 10 2010.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 275

Belle Rose

  [french | 1847]  

Amedee Achard

Summary: [Belle-Rose gentilhomme et soldat ne peut obtenir la main de sa belle car il ne peut prtendre la fortune ou la noblesse de son rival. Il annonce quil les gagnera et quil reviendra... Suivent les annes de combat pendant lesquelles il gagne lamiti indfectible de la Droute et de son fidle Grippard mrite lamiti des soldats et linimitis des intriguants et des puissants. Le destin de notre hros sera ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 82

Benita An African Romance

  [english | 1906]  

Henry Rider Haggard

Excerpts: [... beautiful was that night! No air that stirred the black smoke from the funnels of the mail steamer Zanzibar lay low over the surface of ...... something dark rose beside them. It was a piece of wreckage, and clinging to it a woman, who clasped a bundle to her breast. More, she was alive, ...... with Benita senseless on his breast, and that answer still locked in her sleeping heart? ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | romance] Downloads: 64

Black Amazon Of Mars

  [english | 1951]  

Leigh Brackett

Summary: [Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city?with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran hungering for that magic jewel?ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures?at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | science fiction] Downloads: 291

Black Bartlemys Treasure

  [english | 1920]  

Jeffery Farnol

Summary: [Martin Conisby embittered by his five years of slavery on the Spanish galleon Esmeralda escapes during a sea fight and makes his way back to England determined to avenge himself on Richard Brandon who was the cause of his fathers death and his own ill-treatment. Broken in body and spirit he arrives home just in time to save from the hands of robbers a beautiful girl Lady Joan Brandon the daughter ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 150

Black Canaan

  [english | 1936]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Summary: [If you can get past the considerable racism (the setting is the Jim Crow Deep South the storys told in first person) its a creepy swamp voodoo tale comparable in its eerieness to many of the darker Conan stories. The Pool of the Black One comes to mind. I enjoyed it but you may not if you cant stand casual use of the N word.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | fantasy] Downloads: 256

Black Heart And White Heart

  [english | 1900]  

Henry Rider Haggard

Excerpts: [... wizened and aged man who seemed to be pleading with him earnestly am I a dog that these white hyenas should hunt me thus? Is not the land mine, and ...... in a most unkingly manner, whilst the terrified Induna, springing backwards, contrived to touch the trigger of the rifle and discharge a bullet through ...... whose grizzled hair showed him to be over fifty years of age. His face ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 202

Blacksheep Blacksheep

  [english | 1920]  

Meredith Nicholson

Summary: [The story of a gentleman who becomes a criminal against his will and takes to the open road to escape from the results of his crime.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | mystery detective] Downloads: 497

Blow The Chinks Down

  [english | 1931]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Excerpts: [... you? Listen here, you flat-headed mutt- I begun with some heat, but the girl said: Now, now, don't fight, boys. Sit down and let's all talk sociably. ...... in outraged surprise. It was a tall, slender Englishman with a kind of tired, half humorous expression. Come, come, my good men, he said. We can't ...... right you got buttin' into a private row? I complained. Rights vested in ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 399