Action & Adventure
The Swiss Family Robinson (Version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Johann David Wyss
First published in 1812, The Swiss Family Robinson may sometimes seem old-fashioned to modern readers, especially the family’s attitude towa…
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
H. G. Wells
In this classic of H. G. Wells, Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a beautiful island in the South Seas and is drawn into the wild and cruel …
The Son of Tarzan
Read by Ralph Snelson
Edgar Rice Burroughs
This is the fourth of Burroughs' Tarzan novels. Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his en…
The Master of the World
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jules Verne
Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volca…
Pellucidar
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidar is a fictional "Hollow Earth" milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. The sto…
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 4)
Read by Ralph Snelson
Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Ve…
Alcatraz
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Max Brand
This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. (Summary by Richar…
To the Last Man
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Zane Grey
The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranc…
The Heritage Of The Desert
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Zane Grey
Jack Hare is a young cowboy who was rescued from sure death by an old settler by the name of August Naab. Hare learns that Naab's ranch is a…
A Princess of Mars (version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, …
Tarzan the Terrible
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German tro…
The Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four, the second of four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, has a complex plot involving India, a stolen treasure, and a secr…
The Mad King
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Shades of The Prisoner of Zenda! All our old friends are here—the young king, the usurping uncle and his evil henchman, the beautiful prince…
The Lost Princess of Oz
Read by Mark F. Smith
L. Frank Baum
Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard…
Treasure Island (Version 4)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a r…
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)
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Jules Verne
Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adve…
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
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Howard Pyle
Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern version…
Space Tug
Read by Mark Nelson
Murray Leinster
Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank. In desperation he turned toward Haney. "My God, we've bee…
Little Women (version 2)
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Louisa May Alcott
This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to lo…
The Emerald City of Oz
Read by Judy Bieber
L. Frank Baum
The Emerald City of Oz (1910) was the sixth Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, a title he hoped would be the last. In this book, Dorothy and …