Action & Adventure

The Danger Trail

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.3
Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through som…

After London, or Wild England

by Richard Jefferies Read by Ruth Golding 4.4
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has …

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…

The Journey of Coronado

by Pedro De Castañeda Read by Sue Anderson 4.5
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …

Benito Cereno

by Herman Melville Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvio…

Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Twenty Years After picks up the story of D'Artagnan and his fellow musketeers two decades after the events of The Three Musketeers. As the w…

Tom Sawyer Abroad

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.6
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque a…

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

by Daniel Defoe Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.5
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton follows the extraordinary journey of a man who rises from humble beginnings to beco…

The Adventures of Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a…

Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Winston Tharp 4.7
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…

The Brethren

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtfu…

The Sea Fairies

by L. Frank Baum Read by Judy Bieber 4.7
In 1910, Baum hoped to end the Oz series and follow with a new series about a little girl named Trot and her sailor companion, Cap'n Bill. T…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain Read by Phil Chenevert 4.9
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. …

Ride Proud, Rebel!

by Andre Norton Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with …

At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in…

The Valley of Silent Men

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.5
Subtitled: A Story of the Three River Country. James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decid…

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.5
Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English…

A Study in Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.6
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…

The Ethical Engineer

by Harry Harrison Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012) 4.5
“The Ethical Engineer” also known as “Deathworld II” finds our hero Jason dinAlt captured to face justice for his crimes, but the ever-wily …

Storm Over Warlock

by Andre Norton Read by Andre Norton 4.4
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that …

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