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Mathias Sandorf
[french | 1885]Jules Verne
Summary: [Mathias Sandorf trahi alors quil luttait pour librer la Hongrie de la domination autrichienne schappe de prison. Il rapparait sous le nom de docteur Antkirtt possdant des navires lectriques lui permettant de traverser la Mditerrane trs rapidement pour accomplir sa vengeance... La meilleure prsentation de ce roman est faite par lauteur lui-mme : Dans cet ouvrage jai essay de faire de Mathias ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 497
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
[english | 1885]Mark Twain
Summary: [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism or vernacular told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry Huck Finn best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | humorous] Downloads: 363
She
[english | 1886]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 ? 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations predominantly Africa and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature continue to be popular and influential.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 19
Kidnapped
[english | 1886]Robert Louis Stevenson
Summary: [Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away his sufferings in a desert isle his journey in the wild highlands his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws falsely so called.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 42
A Final Reckoning
[english | 1887]G Henty
Summary: [An exciting adventure of outlaws in the early days of the Australian gold rush when fortunes were made and stolen and when bush rangers and natives constituted a real and formidable danger to the settlers. All boys will read this story with eager and unflagging interest. The episodes are in Mr. Hentys very best vein--graphic exciting realistic and as in all Mr. Hentys books the tendency is to the ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 272
A Tale Of Three Lions
[english | 1887]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... doors the angels of the sun seem to move continually. And there, too, is the wild game, following its feeding-grounds in great armies, with the springbuck ...... life, and most curious some of them were. No man can pass all those years following the rough existence of an elephant-hunter without meeting with many ...... just in time, for in another moment I should have gone for him, ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 423
Allan Quatermain
[english | 1887]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggards 1885 novel King Solomons Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 436
Jess
[english | 1887]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Dont Know About Them) is a book by Bart D. Ehrman a New Testament scholar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This work includes a narrative of Erhmans own progression in Biblical studies and beliefs an overview of the issues raised by scholarly analysis of the Bible details of a selection of findings from ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 341
Ticket No
[english | 1887]Jules Verne
Summary: [Here is one of those forgotten works. Ticket No. 9672 is a fascinating tale of two women who live in a Norway Inn. Dame Hansen is a foolish creature whose mistakes must be dealt with by her daughter Hulda. Coming to their aid is their brother Joel and the remarkable Sylvius Hogg who helps them all after the young Hansens rescue him from the edge of the Rjukanfos Waterfall.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 349
Maiwas Revenge
[english | 1888]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [She -- King Solomons mines -- Allan Quatermain -- Allans wife -- Maiwas revenge.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 195
Otto Of The Silver Hand
[english | 1888]Howard Pyle
Summary: [The gentle son of a medieval German robber baron raised in the calm and thoughtful quiet of a monastery returns to his fathers castle and despite great suffering and blood-feuds grows to honor and manhood.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | juvenile] Downloads: 334
A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder
[english | 1888]James De Mille
Summary: [The satiric and fantastic romance is set in an imaginary semi-tropical land in Antarctica inhabited by prehistoric monsters and a cult of death-worshipers called the Kosekin.The main story of the novel is the narrative of the adventures of Adam More a British sailor shipwrecked on a homeward voyage from Tasmania. After passing through a subterranean tunnel of volcanic origin he finds himself in a ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | fantasy] Downloads: 185
El Hombre Que Pudo Reinar
[spanish | 1888]Rudyard Kipling
Summary: [The secret of the growing gold.--Draculas guest.--The invisible giant.--The judges house.--The burial of the rats.--A star trap.--The squaw.--Grooken sands.--The combeen man (from The snakes pass).--The Watters Mou.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 252
The Man Who Would Be King
[english | 1888]Rudyard Kipling
Summary: [The 21st Century King James Version is a minor update of the King James Version. However unlike the New King James Version it does not alter the language significantly from the 1611 version retaining Jacobean grammar (including thee and thou) but it does attempt to replace some of the vocabulary which no longer would make sense to a modern reader. An example from Ezra 9:3 Another example from the ...]
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Allans Wife
[english | 1889]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... tall, foreign- looking gentleman who stood beside her, and, tapping him affectionately on the shoulder with her gold eye-glasses, said- Look, cousin-look ...... at it with his finger, then turning round to point with the assegai towards his rival. For a while I looked at him in silence. He was a curious wizened ...... of these Kaffir wizards or witch-finders. But Indaba-zimbi ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 233
Cleopatra
[english | 1889]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references (xxv-xxvi).]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | romance] Downloads: 210
Eric Brighteyes
[english | 1889]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... my price. Pay it if thou wilt. Read me the dream and I will name the child. Nay, first name thou the babe: for then no harm shall come to her at ...... her heart. Listen, Gudruda, Eric said at last. Death draws near to us, and before it comes I would speak to thee, if speak I may. Speak on, she ...... in the morning which seemed well enough on yester eve. He remembered that he held ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 347
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthurs Court
[english | 1889]Mark Twain
Summary: [This is the tale of a 19th-century citizen of Hartford Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD 528.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | humorous] Downloads: 119
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
Lenfant Mysterieux
[french | 1890]Vinceslas Eugene Dick
Summary: [Laction se droule vers 1840 lle dOrlans. Un enfant adopt la suite de la disparition de ses parents gne lhritier lgal de la famille...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 161