Action/Adventure
Stories of an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger involving spies, assassins and more.
The Survivors of the Chancellor [en] (1875)
Jules Verne
Mr. Kazallon thought that booking passage on a cargo ship from Charleston to Liverpool would be a charming way to return to his English homeland. If only he knew! A crazed sea captain, a disaster in the hold, storms, oppressive heat, sharks and starvation are just some of the many travails...
Genre: Action/Adventure
The Man Who Would Be King [en] (1888)
Rudyard Kipling
Two former British soldiers who were sent in the early 19th century to British controlled India to search for adventure end up becoming kings of Kafiristan. This story is inspired by Josiah Harlan, an American adventurer who claimed the title of Prince of Ghor after leding a military force...
Genres: Action/Adventure, Short Stories
Tarzan the Terrible [en] (1921)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lieutenant Obergatz had fled in terror from the seeking vengeance of Tarzan of the Apes. And with him, by force, he had taken Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane. Now the ape-man was following the faint spoor of their flight, into a region no man had ever penetrated. The trail led across seemingly...
Genre: Action/Adventure
Tarzan the Untamed [en] (1920)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs` legendary Tarzan stories continue with two of his greatest! In Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan defends his jungle home from invaders during World War I and then must protect an Englishman and a German spy from a lost civilization of lion-men! And in Tarzan the Terrible, the...
Genre: Action/Adventure
The Deerslayer [en] (1841) 
James Fenimore Cooper
Set in 1740 during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer testifies to the murderous humanity and natural beauty on which the history of America was written. In the climactic novel of the Leather-stocking Tales, Hawkeye, the noble white youth, learns to sacrifice self-interest for the...
Genres: Action/Adventure, Historical Fiction
The Prince of India [en] (1893)
Lew Wallace
A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinary power the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with the warm underglow of an Oriental romance.
Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras [en] (1866) 
Jules Verne
First Mate Shandon receives a mysterious letter asking him to construct a reinforced steamship in Liverpool. As he heads out for Melville Bay and the Arctic labyrinth, a crewman finally reveals himself as Captain John Hatteras, and his obsession--to get to the North Pole. After experiencing...
Genre: Action/Adventure
Moby Dick [en] (1851)
Herman Melville
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance....
Genres: Action/Adventure, Nautical
Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp [en] (1922)
Alice B. Emerson
Betty Gordon enjoys a Christmas vacation with the Littell family in Washington. One day, while out shopping, Betty meets an unhappy girl named Ida Bellethorne, who works in a store. After Betty loses a locket in the store Ida finds and gives it to the owner but when Betty goes back to the...
Genres: Action/Adventure, Young Readers
Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil [en] (1920)
Alice B. Emerson
Betty Gordon leaves for Oklahoma to see her Uncle Dick with Bob Henderson, who hopes to find his aunts, the Saunders sisters. While they journey on the train Bob overhears two sharpers talking on how they can cheat old women out of their farms and make a fortune in oil. You can imagine Bob's...
Genres: Action/Adventure, Young Readers
Betty Gordon in Washington [en] (1920)
Alice B. Emerson
Let me go with you, Betty?" coaxed Bobby. "Carter will take us in the machine. I won't bother you, and if you have personal business to attend to, I'll wait for you in the library or some place. Cooking and making lace drives me wild, and if you leave me at home as likely as not I'll pick a...
Genres: Action/Adventure, Young Readers
Betty Gordon at Boarding School [en] (1921)
Alice B. Emerson
The girl, who was watching a wiry little bay horse contentedly crop grass that grew in straggling whisps about the fence posts, looked up and showed an even row of white teeth as she smiled.
Genres: Action/Adventure, Young Readers
Ticket No. "9672" [en] (1887)
Jules Verne
Jules Verne is almost synonymous with nineteenth-century science fiction. Who can forget Captain Nemo and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas or Robur of Master of the World? And what science fiction buff isn't aware of A Journey to the Interior of the Earth or From the Earth to the Moon!...
Genre: Action/Adventure
The Master of Ballantrae [en] (1899)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottish history. When two brothers...
Genres: Action/Adventure, Historical Fiction
A Voyage in a Balloon [en] (1852)
Jules Verne
Amalgamating futuristic technologies and expeditions into the future, this is a scintillating collection by Verne. The work combines sights of the future as well as bird’s eye view of the contemporary era. This brilliant work by the author is the example of his genius and creative abilities.
Genres: Action/Adventure, Short Stories
Dick Sand [en] (1878)
Jules Verne
Jules Verne presents an amazing tale of adventure and courage of a fifteen year old boy Dick Sands. Being the only survivor of a whale hunt in the Pacific Ocean, he becomes the captain of his ship and struggles hard to reach to the South American coast. The story depicts the human attributes...
Genre: Action/Adventure
Facing the Flag [en] (1897)
Jules Verne
Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879 , it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally overcome...
Genre: Action/Adventure
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent [en] (1894)
Jules Verne
Claudius Bombarnac, a reporter is assigned by the Twentieth Century to cover the travels of the Grand Transasiatic Railway which runs between Uzun Ada, Turkestan and Peking, China. Accompanying him on this journey is an interesting collection of characters, including one who is trying to beat...
Genre: Action/Adventure
The Black Arrow [en] (1888)
Robert Louis Stevenson
From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys’ adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man’s journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England’s War of the Roses,...
Genres: Action/Adventure, Historical Fiction, Romance
The Sea Wolf [en] (1904)
Jack London
Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. A deranged and abusive sea captain perpetrates a shipboard atmosphere of increasing violence that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. This 1904 maritime classic depicts the...
Genres: Action/Adventure, Nautical