Adventure Books

Nobody's Boy

Hector Malot

Nobody's Boy is an 1878 French novel by Hector Malot. The most recent English translation is Alone in the World by Adrian de Bruyn, 2007. The novel was reportedly inspired by the Italian street musici..

Chums in Dixie

St. George Rathborne

Chums in Dixie; or, The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat is a juvenile fiction novel written by St. George Rathborne, an American author of boys' stories and dime novels. He is believed to have prod..

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Maddox Ford begins with the famous line "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." It is the tragic tale of an upper-class English couple, Edward Ashbur..

The Last Day of a Condemned Man

Victor Hugo

The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a short novel by Victor Hugo first published in 1829. The novel recounts the thoughts of a man condemned to die. Victor Hugo wrote this novel to express his feelings..

Winnetou, the Apache Knight

Karl Friedrich May

Winnetou, the Apache Knight is a juvenile fiction novel written by Karl Friedrich May,  German writer best known for his adventure novels set in the American Old West. His main protagon..

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Hugh Lofting

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was the second of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books to be published, coming out in 1922. It is nearly five times as long as its predecessor and the writing style is p..

Captains Courageous - A Story of the Grand Banks

Rudyard Kipling

Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a ..

Le Morte d'Arthur - Volume 1

Thomas Malory

Le Morte d'Arthur is a reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of existing tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interpreted existing Fr..