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Adventure.

From the frozen Yukon of White Fang to the treacherous seas of Treasure Island, our adventure shelves are stacked with stories of survival, revenge, and discovery. These enduring tales—from Dumas to Stevenson—will sweep you into worlds where courage is the only compass.

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

Maurice Leblanc's dazzling debut collection introducing Arsène Lupin, the charming master thief who robs the rich, outwits the police, and turns every crime into a performance.

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.

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Little Women

Little Women

Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale becomes a swirling vortex of biblical allusions and salt-stained philosophy.

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.

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Jewels of Gwahlur

Jewels of Gwahlur

Conan the Cimmerian slips into a ruined temple city in search of legendary gems, only to find rival treasure-hunters, an oracle who is not what she seems, and older terrors waiting

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Rinkitink in Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

A buoyant Oz adventure in which a comic king, a young prince, and Dorothy cross perilous islands on the way to Oz.

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Homer's Odyssey

Homer's Odyssey

Homer's timeless epic of homecoming, in Samuel Butler's clear English prose.

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A Princess of Mars

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs launches his Barsoom saga with a fast, vivid planetary romance of duels, deserts, war, and improbable love.

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The Young Railroaders: Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

The Young Railroaders: Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

A collection of boyhood adventure stories set along the rails, where quick wits and steady nerves meet runaway trains and roadside emergencies.

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The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

A boys' outdoor adventure that sends its young companions down the historic Missouri, mixing wilderness craft, river travel and American frontier history for eager young readers.

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Desert Conquest

Desert Conquest

A novel whose title evokes the struggle to master a hard, arid land, a story set against the frontier's contest between people, water, and unforgiving country.

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The Emerald City of Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry settle in Oz as Baum combines domestic warmth, comic fantasy, and an invasion plot.

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Paul Patoff

Paul Patoff

A novel of intrigue and human passions from F.

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Shadows in Zamboula

Shadows in Zamboula

Robert E.

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The People of the Black Circle

The People of the Black Circle

Robert E.

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An Undivided Union

An Undivided Union

A rousing juvenile adventure set against the American Civil War, following young soldiers through the trials of the Blue and the Gray.

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The Red True Story Book

The Red True Story Book

Andrew Lang trades fairy tales for true ones in this companion to his famous colour-titled series: real episodes from history retold with a storyteller's flair.

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Peter and Wendy

Peter and Wendy

J.

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Shadows in the Moonlight

Shadows in the Moonlight

Robert E.

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A Martian Odyssey

A Martian Odyssey

Stanley G.

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The Dash for Khartoum

The Dash for Khartoum

A rousing Victorian adventure set against the Nile campaign in the Sudan, following young heroes into danger, duty, and the dust of desert warfare.

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Wanderfoot

Wanderfoot

A novel of restless hearts and far horizons, following characters whose lives are shaped by travel, longing, and the pull of distant places.

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The Aeneid of Virgil

The Aeneid of Virgil

Virgil’s epic of exile, destiny, war, and empire follows Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding myth of Rome.

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Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

A collection of sensational true and traditional tales from the age of sail, gathering accounts of shipboard revolt, bloody crime, and piracy on the high seas.

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Red Nails

Red Nails

Robert E.

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The Hour of the Dragon

The Hour of the Dragon

Robert E.

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The Wandering Jew — Complete

The Wandering Jew — Complete

Eugène Sue's sprawling nineteenth-century epic of intrigue, following a scattered family pursued across the world by a ruthless conspiracy.

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Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled

Hudson Stuck's vivid record of winter journeys by dog sled across Alaska, a missionary-explorer's account of the far North, its trails, peoples and unforgiving cold.

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The Trail of the Hawk

The Trail of the Hawk

An early Sinclair Lewis novel about a restless young American who trades the flatness of small-town life for the open sky, finding in flight and ambition a new kind of frontier.

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A Journey to the Center of the Earth

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is a foundational science-fiction adventure filled with subterranean wonder, peril, discovery, and scientific imagination.

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Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

Ingersoll Lockwood's curious Victorian fantasy.

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The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

The firsthand record of one of history's great expeditions, as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cross the North American continent, charting rivers, peoples, wildlife and landsca

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The Martian

The Martian

A strange and haunting tale in which an earthly life is shaped by an unseen guiding spirit from another world.

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The Czar's Spy

The Czar's Spy

William Le Queux's fast-moving tale of intrigue and espionage, set among the secrets and dangers of imperial Russia's reach.

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The Zeppelin's Passenger

The Zeppelin's Passenger

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A Victor of Salamis

A Victor of Salamis

William Stearns Davis's rousing historical novel of ancient Greece, set amid the Persian Wars and the great sea battle of Salamis, where courage and love are tested against the fat

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One of the Six Hundred

One of the Six Hundred

A tale of soldiering and valour that takes its title from Tennyson's immortal charge, where six hundred rode into the guns.

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Aladdin & Co

Aladdin & Co

A brisk American novel of enterprise, ambition, and fortune-making in a fast-growing town, told with wit and a keen eye for the schemes of its go-getting characters.

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Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty

Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty

Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling historical romance set in Renaissance Italy: a tale of honour, love, and intrigue among the courts and condottieri of Urbino, told with the master s

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The Spy

The Spy

James Fenimore Cooper's Revolutionary War novel of a mysterious pedlar suspected as a British spy, torn loyalties and midnight risks in the contested no-man's-land of the Hudson.

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Trial by water

Trial by water

A novel titled Trial by Water, offered here for readers to discover.

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The Man in the Brown Suit

The Man in the Brown Suit

A young woman witnesses a death in a London Underground station and follows a cryptic clue aboard a liner bound for South Africa, launching one of Agatha Christie's most dashing ea

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Set in Silver

Set in Silver

A charming period romance of travel and courtship, in which a journey becomes the setting for misunderstanding, disguise and the slow blossoming of love.

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Under the Red Dragon

Under the Red Dragon

A Victorian adventure novel of soldiering, love and loyalty, its title carrying the red dragon of a regimental banner into war and romance.

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Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Lucien Biart's account of a boy's natural-history adventures in the wilds of Mexico.

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Mr. Standfast

Mr. Standfast

John Buchan's rousing First World War thriller, the third Richard Hannay adventure, sending its hero undercover through a Britain riddled with espionage on the trail of a dangerous

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Anabasis

Anabasis

Xenophon’s classic march narrative follows a stranded Greek army through retreat, leadership crisis, and survival.

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The Riddle of the Sands

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers's pioneering spy novel of two Englishmen who stumble on a secret while yachting the tidal shallows of the North Sea.

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The Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson

Johann David Wyss's beloved tale of a shipwrecked family who build an ingenious new life on a tropical island.

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The Landloper

The Landloper

A tale of the open road and a wandering hero, in which a man on the move stirs up a community and finds himself drawn into its affairs.

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Peter the Brazen

Peter the Brazen

George F.

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'Firebrand' Trevison

'Firebrand' Trevison

A hard-riding Western of the open range, in which a strong-willed man clashes with powerful interests over land, law and love in a frontier town where nerve settles most arguments.

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The Place of Honeymoons

The Place of Honeymoons

A romantic novel of love, travel and adventure from the popular fiction of its era.

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan's breakneck thriller of espionage and pursuit.

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Plague Ship

Plague Ship

A tense science-fiction adventure aboard a free-trading spaceship whose crew, having landed a rich trading deal, find themselves quarantined and accused of carrying a deadly plague

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Tarrano the Conqueror

Tarrano the Conqueror

A fast-moving early science-fiction thriller about tyranny, resistance, and perilous escape in Ray Cummings’s imagined future.

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Sword and Pen: Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier

Sword and Pen: Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier

A biography of Willard Glazier, Civil War cavalryman, prisoner, escapee, author, and explorer.

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On the Trail of the Space Pirates

On the Trail of the Space Pirates

A vintage juvenile science-fiction adventure that hurtles young readers into the far reaches of space, where a crew must outwit ruthless raiders among the stars in the pulp-era spi

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The Air Pirate

The Air Pirate

An early aviation adventure of daring, danger, and villainy in the skies, from the pioneering age of flight.

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Catriona

Catriona

Robert Louis Stevenson continues David Balfour’s adventures through kidnapping, legal peril, divided loyalties, romance, and Jacobite intrigue with wit and momentum.

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Kidnapped

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson's breathless Scottish adventure, in which a robbed orphan is flung into a Highland flight across moor and mountain after the Jacobite rising, bound to a dang

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle's classic retelling of the Robin Hood legend, gathering the greenwood's finest tales of daring, disguise and good cheer into one rousing, richly told adventure.

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The Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon

Henry De Vere Stacpoole's famous romance of two children shipwrecked on a Pacific island, who grow to adulthood in innocent isolation and discover love, nature and the pull of the

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The Silent Barrier

The Silent Barrier

Louis Tracy’s alpine romance-thriller of chance encounter, concealed motive, social performance, and danger in the high Engadine.

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Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

R.

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The Gay Adventure

The Gay Adventure

A light-hearted novel in the older sense of "gay" — bright, spirited, and comic.

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The Rover Boys on the Farm

The Rover Boys on the Farm

A lively installment in the classic Rover Boys series of adventures for young readers.

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The Hero of the People

The Hero of the People

A sweeping romance of the French Revolution from the great Dumas, carrying its characters through the fever of Paris as an old regime falls and a new age is born in blood.

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Blow The Man Down

Blow The Man Down

Holman Day's brisk sea-and-shore adventure of a young man making his way in the hard world of shipping and coastal trade, full of salt air, rivalry and grit.

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The Treasure of Pearls

The Treasure of Pearls

An adventure tale built around the lure of hidden riches, following the search for a fabled treasure of pearls.

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The Car of Destiny

The Car of Destiny

A romance of motoring and intrigue from the golden age of the automobile, when the open road promised adventure, mystery and love.

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The Yeoman Adventurer

The Yeoman Adventurer

A historical adventure novel of loyalty, intrigue, and derring-do set against the turbulence of eighteenth-century England.

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Forest Days

Forest Days

A nineteenth-century historical romance of pursuit, loyalty, and danger unfolding through woodland England.

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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe’s enduring adventure classic follows Robinson Crusoe through shipwreck, solitude, labor, fear, and survival on a remote island.

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The Pirate: Andrew Lang Edition

The Pirate: Andrew Lang Edition

A seafaring tale presented in an edition associated with Andrew Lang, the great Victorian anthologist and man of letters.

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Monte-Cristo's Daughter

Monte-Cristo's Daughter

A dramatic sequel to Dumas's beloved Count of Monte Cristo, carrying the saga of vengeance, fortune and destiny into a new generation.

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That Girl Montana

That Girl Montana

A story of the American West and a spirited young heroine, set against frontier country where identity, belonging and the past all come into play.

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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Jules Verne's thrilling descent into the hollow depths of the planet, where a determined professor and his companions find a lost world beneath our feet.

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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

The once and future king, his fellowship of the Round Table, and the long dream of Camelot, retold with the sweep and sorrow of the old romances.

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Thuvia, maid of Mars

Thuvia, maid of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to Barsoom for a swift tale of a Martian princess, a lovestruck prince, telepathic beasts and phantom armies across the dying red planet.

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is a witty, inventive classic that blends time travel, satire, adventure, and social criticism.

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The Misplaced Battleship

The Misplaced Battleship

A brisk, witty science-fiction caper in the golden tradition of the interstellar rogue.

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A Honeymoon in Space

A Honeymoon in Space

George Griffith sends newlyweds beyond Earth for a fin-de-siècle voyage through the solar system, mixing wonder, satire, and early spacefaring imagination.

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The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

Homer's great homecoming epic in Samuel Butler's clear, readable prose — the ten-year wandering of Odysseus toward Ithaca, his waiting wife and his imperilled home.

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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift's classic satire following Lemuel Gulliver to lands of miniature people, giants, deranged intellectuals, and rational horses.

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Beowulf

Beowulf

The great Old English epic of a hero who battles a monster, its vengeful mother, and finally a dragon, in Francis Barton Gummere's stately verse translation.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain's immortal boyhood idyll: whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, hidden treasure and a cave.

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The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett's boisterous eighteenth-century picaresque, following a young Scotsman through misfortune, sea voyages, and rogues aplenty in a raucous, satirical tour of Georgian

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History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding's sprawling comic masterpiece follows a good-hearted foundling through misadventure, love, and English society toward the truth of his birth.

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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete

Tobias Smollett's picaresque novel follows a charming, unscrupulous rogue as he cheats and connives his way across eighteenth century Europe.

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Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville's vast, oceanic masterpiece of obsession and the whale.

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Omoo

Omoo

Herman Melville's rollicking sequel to Typee, following a restless sailor through the islands of the South Pacific.

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Typee

Typee

A sailor jumps ship in the South Pacific and lives among an island people both alluring and unsettling.

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The Deerslayer

The Deerslayer

In his youth on a wilderness lake, the hunter Natty Bumppo faces his first battles and his first hard moral tests.

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The Pioneers

The Pioneers

On the New York frontier, ageing woodsman Natty Bumppo clashes with the settlers and laws reshaping the wilderness he loves.

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The Pathfinder

The Pathfinder

The frontier scout Natty Bumppo guides a party through the Great Lakes country and, unexpectedly, into matters of the heart.

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The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

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The People That Time Forgot

The People That Time Forgot

A rescue expedition into the lost land of Caspak plunges its hero among dinosaurs, primitive tribes and a strange evolutionary mystery.

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The Warlord of Mars

The Warlord of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs’s high-velocity Barsoom adventure delivers rescue, warfare, romance, and classic planetary pulp.

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The Gods of Mars

The Gods of Mars

Earthman John Carter returns to a dying Mars and into the deadly heart of its cruelest religion.

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Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes

Orphaned in the African jungle and raised by great apes, a nobleman's son grows into a legend caught between two worlds, in Edgar Rice Burroughs's founding adventure of one of fict

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Burning Daylight

Burning Daylight

Jack London follows a legendary Klondike gold-rush adventurer from the frozen North to the boardrooms of California, in a sweeping novel about fortune, corruption and the search fo

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The Sea-Wolf

The Sea-Wolf

Jack London strands a cultivated survivor aboard a sealing schooner ruled by Wolf Larsen, creating a sea novel of violence, philosophy, power, and endurance.

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The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon

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The Lost World

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle sends Professor Challenger into the Amazon in a classic adventure filled with dinosaurs, danger, and discovery.

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Kim

Kim

Rudyard Kipling’s great picaresque follows Kimball O’Hara across colonial India through espionage, spiritual quest, railway movement, and a world alive with competing loyalties.

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Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling turns a boy-overboard rescue into a sea-going coming-of-age novel about labor, discipline, pride, and earned self-respect aboard a North Atlantic fishing schooner.

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From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne's visionary adventure of the space age before it began.

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The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island

Five castaways marooned by balloon on an uncharted island rebuild civilisation from nothing, guided by a hidden benefactor.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne's founding adventure sends a stubborn professor and his reluctant nephew down a volcano into a hidden underworld of oceans, storms and prehistoric wonders beneath our f

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Captured aboard a mysterious submarine, three men voyage through the ocean's depths with the brilliant, embittered Captain Nemo.

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Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne's exhilarating race against the clock.

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The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip

Alexandre Dumas turns seventeenth-century Holland, political danger, and tulip fever into a fast-moving historical adventure.

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Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After

Two decades on, the four musketeers reunite amid civil war and shifting loyalties, older and no longer all on the same side.

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

A young Gascon named d'Artagnan comes to Paris to make his fortune with a sword and falls in with three inseparable comrades.

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The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

The ageing musketeers are drawn into a perilous royal secret and a plot that could topple a king.

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Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens's rousing tale of a young man's fight against cruelty and greed.

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White Fang

White Fang

A fierce companion to The Call of the Wild, tracing a wolf-dog’s path from violence and fear toward trust and domestication.

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The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild

Jack London’s iconic Yukon adventure follows Buck from domestic comfort into brutal struggle, instinct, and wilderness.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas's grand tale of betrayal, imprisonment, hidden treasure, and meticulous revenge.

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The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

A boy raised by wolves learns the laws of the jungle, navigating a world where danger and wonder are inseparable.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer’s world is sunlit and sly, where fence-painting becomes a con and treasure hunts turn treacherous.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island

A boy’s adventure becomes a brutal education in deception when a pirate’s map leads to mutiny, buried gold, and the unforgettable Long John Silver.

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote

A deluded knight and his loyal squire wander the Spanish countryside, mistaking windmills for giants and inns for castles.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck Finn flees his abusive father and joins Jim, a runaway slave, on a raft down the Mississippi.

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