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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 Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

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

by Johann David Wyss

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

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

by George F. Worts

George F.

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'Firebrand' Trevison

by Charles Alden Seltzer

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

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

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

John Buchan's breakneck thriller of espionage and pursuit.

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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

by Ray Cummings

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

by John Algernon Owens

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

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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

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

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Catriona

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

by Howard Pyle

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

by H. De Vere Stacpoole

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

by Louis Tracy

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

by R. D. Blackmore

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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

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

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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

by Holman Day

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

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

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

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

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Forest Days

by G. P. R. James

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

by Daniel Defoe

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

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

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

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

by Verne, Jules

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

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

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

by Mark Twain

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

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

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A Honeymoon in Space

by George Griffith

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

by Homer

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

by Jonathan Swift

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

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Beowulf

by Francis Barton Gummere (translator)

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

by Mark Twain

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

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The Adventures of Roderick Random

by Tobias Smollett

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

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

by Tobias Smollett

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

by Herman Melville

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

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Omoo

by Herman Melville

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

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Typee

by Herman Melville

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

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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

by James Fenimore Cooper

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

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