Adventure audiobooks
Aunt Jane's Nieces In Society
by Lyman Frank BaumAunt Jane's Nieces in Society is a young adult novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. First published in 1910, the book is the fifth volume in the Aunt Jane's Nieces series, which was the second-greatest success of Baum's literary career, after the Oz books themselves. The novel carries forward the continuing story..
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is a children's novel written by Mark Twain. Finn, a teen boy on his way to escape from his abusive father encounters with a runaway slave Jim. They unite together to fight for their survival in this cruel world. Though Twain originally intended this to be sequel to his earlier work "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", it..
Jezebel's Daughter
by Wilkie CollinsJezebel's Daughter is a sensation novel published in 1880 and dedicated to Alberto Caccia, Collins's Italian translator. Based on the 1858 play, The Red Vial, Collins's attempt to write for 'the masses' resulted in an unduly melodramatic tone. The novel, however, is notable for the way it handles the treatment of lunatics and the mental..
Dark Night's Work
by Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellA Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking. The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his d..
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel DefoeThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by Daniel Defoe inspired by the real life experiences of the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk. This novel narrates the adventurous journey of a sailor whose shipwreck turned his life to staying alone for decades in Islands where only Cannibals lived. While Robinson Crusoe's parents wa..
Mystery of the Sea
by Bram StokerThe Mystery of the Sea, a mystery novel by Bram Stoker, was originally published in 1902. Stoker is best known for his 1897 novel Dracula, but The Mystery of the Sea contains many of the same compelling elements. It tells the story of an Englishman living in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who meets and falls in love with an American heiress. She is invol..
Allan Quatermain
by Henry Rider HaggardAllan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman cum African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series, Quaterman and his two good friends from KSM have tired of their dull and unfulfilling lives in England, and decide to search for the truth of an old tale about the existence of an isolated white kingdom deep i..
Heart of the World
by Henry Rider HaggardHeart of the World is an 1895 book by H Rider Haggard about a lost Mayan city in Mexico. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the tenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1976. ..