Action Adventure Books

Vingt Ans Apres

  [french | 1845]  

Alexandre Dumas

Excerpts: [... temps du cardinal de Richelieu, et voyant qu'il n'y avait personne dans ce cabinet qu'un mousquetaire de sa compagnie, il arr^eta les yeux sur ce mousquetaire, ...... avoir demand'e un cong'e qui lui fut accord'e `a l'instant et sign'e par Mazarin lui-m^eme. `A peine dehors il s'approcha d'une lanterne qui 'etait ...... : voici autour de vous quatre cardinaux qui, `a la t^ete des ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 316

Von Bagdad Nach Stambul

  [german | 1892]  

Karl May

Summary: [Scheik Mohammed Emin stirbt bei einem Kurden-berfall sein Sohn trennt sich von den Reisegefhrten um die Tter zu verfolgen. Im Pesthauch der Todeskarawane werden Kara Ben Nemsi und Halef von schwerer Krankheit befallen und erreichen Damaskus. Bei den Ruinen von Baalbek begegnen sie einem alten Widersacher.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | juvenile] Downloads: 470

Voyage Au Centre De La Terre

  [french | 1864]  

Jules Verne

Summary: [Le professeur Lidenbrock trouve un document dans lequel il apprend lexistence dun volcan teint dont la chemine pourrait le conduire jusquau centre de la Terre. Accompagn de son neveu Axel et du guide Hans il se rend au volcan Sneffels en Islande et sengouffre dans les entrailles de la Terre. Ils ne tarderont pas faire dtonnantes dcouvertes...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | science fiction] Downloads: 116

Voyages Et Aventures Du Capitaine Hatteras

  [french | 1866]  

Jules Verne

Summary: [A Liverpool un brick le Forward (en franais : En avant) attire la curiosit de tous : il est visiblement conu pour les mers polaires mais de nombreux dtails dans sa constructions intriguent. De plus les marins sont trs bien pays mais ils ignorent la destination du bateau le bateau emmne une norme quantit de poudre mais peu darmes. Le capitaine est absent et inconnu le second en titre Shandon joue ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 223

Warrior Of The Dawn

  [english | 1942]  

Howard Browne

Summary: [From the forest deeps came brutal killers and Tharn the Cro-Magnon vowed that vengeance would be his....]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 152

Waterfront Fists

  [english | 1930]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Excerpts: [... and knowing I had a tough battle ahead of me and needed some training, I got me a haircut and then went down to the Hibernian Bar for a few shots ...... one eye, raised one ear, and then went back to sleep with a sort of gentle canine smile. Y'oughta be careful, growled Bill, while Mushy sloshed ...... Which one of you frails is Gloria Flynn, if any? You could of knocked me over ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 282

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

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

White Fang

  [english | 1906]  

Jack London

Summary: [An initiation story concerning the taming of a wild dog in the Klondike.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 314

Winner Take All

  [english | 1930]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Summary: [Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway (July 21 1899 - July 2 1961). Hemingways third collection of short stories it was published four years after his most recent novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) and a year after the non-fiction book about bullfighting Death in the Afternoon (1932).]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 210

Worms Of The Earth

  [english | 1932]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Summary: [Bran Mak Morn King of the Picts vows revenge on the Roman governor Titus Sulla after witnessing the crucifixion of a fellow Pict. He seeks forbidden aid from the Worms of the Earth a race of creatures who were once men but after generations of living underground have become monstrous and semi-reptilian. He secures their help after stealing a religious item of theirs from a barrow trading it back ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | fantasy] Downloads: 403

Wulf The Saxon

  [english | 1895]  

G Henty

Summary: [From the creator of exciting historically accurate fiction for young readers comes this tale of loyalty and courage in 11th-century Britain. Wulf and his best friend Beorn fight bravely for their Saxon king capturing castles rescuing shipwrecked survivors repelling Viking invaders and fighting the Battle of Hastings.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 349