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The Odyssey
One war, ten years lost at sea, and several gods with grudges.
Homer · myth
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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
A vengeful captain drafts a crew into his private war against a specific sperm whale with a grudge.
Herman Melville · novel
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A boy flees his drunk father, finds an enslaved man, and descends the Mississippi toward freedom.
Mark Twain · novel
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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
A ship's surgeon visits a land of six-inch politicians and a kingdom of giants who treat him like a doll.
Jonathan Swift · novel
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Peter Pan
A boy flies into a nursery, steals three siblings, and refuses to apologize for it.
J. M. Barrie · novel
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The Count of Monte Cristo
A man is betrayed on his wedding day and spends fourteen years deciding who pays.
Alexandre Dumas · novel
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Treasure Island
A boy finds a map, a squire hires a mutinous crew, and a parrot screams for pieces of eight.
Robert Louis Stevenson · novel
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
A rogue captain drives a submarine around the world; his guests want off.
Jules Verne · novel
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Anne of Green Gables
An elderly farming duo requests an orphan boy for help; the orphanage sends an imaginative girl instead.
L. M. Montgomery · novel
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A boy wants to avoid school, witness his own funeral, and find treasure without doing any actual chores.
Mark Twain · novel
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Around the World in Eighty Days
A man wagers his fortune on a clock, then realizes he miscounted the calendar.
Jules Verne · novel
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
A rabbit ignores his mother's advice to avoid a pie-making gardener. This does not end well.
Beatrix Potter · novel
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
A scholar finds a coded note in an old book and decides the only logical response is jumping into a volcano.
Jules Verne · novel
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The Jungle Book
A boy grows up in the wolf pack. The local tiger has objections.
Rudyard Kipling · collection
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The Tempest
A sorcerer maroons his enemies on an island. Then things get complicated.
William Shakespeare · play
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The call of the wild
Stolen from a sunny estate, a heavy-muscled dog learns to trade his collar for the kill-or-be-killed logic of the Arctic.
Jack London · novel
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
A shipwrecked man spends three decades building a personal kingdom out of goatskin, salvaged planks, and solitary prayer.
Daniel Defoe · novel
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The Swiss family Robinson
Shipwrecked in the tropics, a Swiss family discovers that home is where the pulley is.
Johann David Wyss · novel
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The Mysterious Island
Five Union escapees drop from a balloon into a Pacific wilderness and build a civilization using only a pocket watch.
Jules Verne · novel
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Twenty years after
Two decades later, the gang reunites to save a king and dodge civil war.
Alexandre Dumas · novel
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Kidnapped
An orphan survives a murderous uncle and a slave ship only to be framed for murder in the Scottish Highlands.
Robert Louis Stevenson · novel
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
A bored expatriate finds a corpse in his flat and must outrun the police to stop a global war.
John Buchan · novel
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The Adventures of Roderick Random
A young man sets out for London with nothing but a grudge and a temper.
T. Smollett · novel
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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
A boy pulls a sword from a stone, founds an elite fellowship, and watches it crumble through betrayal and magic.
Thomas Sir -1471 Malory · myth
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
An undercover detective infiltrates a cabal of anarchists, only to find the revolution is surprisingly bureaucratic.
G. K. Chesterton · novel
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Two princes crash-land in a pastoral utopia, adopt disguises, and accidentally make both the King and Queen fall in love with them.
Philip Sidney · novel
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Four Arthurian Romances
Knights errant, runaway sparrow-hawks, and swords for bridges: the standard operating procedure for Arthur's table.
de Troyes active 12th century Chrétien · collection
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Mr. Standfast
A mining engineer swaps his uniform for a tweed suit to stop a German intelligence plot.
John Buchan · novel
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The three musketeers
A country boy arrives in Paris, insults three legends, and suddenly everyone is fighting for the Queen.
Alexandre Dumas · novel
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The Sheriff of Nottingham wants a tax collector, but he gets a headache instead.
Howard Pyle · myth
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The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757
A scout, a Mohican chief, and a British major navigate a forest full of ambushes to save two kidnapped sisters.
James Fenimore Cooper · novel
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The Pirate
A shipwrecked pirate charms a remote island community, ruins a local boy's social life, and triggers an identity crisis.
Walter Scott · novel
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White Fang
A wolf-dog learns that survival is mostly violence, until he learns that life is mostly having a master.
Jack London · novel
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A girl loses her house in a storm and demands a way back from a local bureaucrat.
L. Frank Baum · novel
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A princess of Mars
An Arizona prospector wakes up on Mars, discovers he has superpowers, and joins a six-limbed green warrior tribe.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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The island of Doctor Moreau
A man lands on an island where surgery turns forest animals into people with existential dread.
H. G. Wells · novel
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The Lady of the Lake
A disguised King, a fiery cross, and an exiled lady collide in a mountain chase where honor outweighs every law.
Walter Scott · poetry
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Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since
An English soldier visits Scotland for a quiet holiday and accidentally joins a revolution to restore a king.
Walter Scott · novel
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron · poetry
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
A fashionable dandy saves aristocrats from the guillotine; the French Republic is remarkably annoyed.
Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy · novel
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Kim
An Irish orphan wanders India as a Buddhist disciple while moonlighting for the British Secret Service during the Great Game.
Rudyard Kipling · novel
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
Three Englishmen attempt to solve the mysteries of the Nile by floating across the continent in a double-walled hydrogen balloon.
Jules Verne · novel
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The Man in the Iron Mask
A scheming bishop replaces the King of France with his identical twin, leaving the aging Musketeers to pick the wrong side.
Alexandre Dumas · novel
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A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
A professor deciphers a runic note, ignores all safety protocols, and takes his nephew to the Earth's core.
Jules Verne · novel
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The Mabinogion
A giant king crosses a sea on foot while his sister’s wedding feast is ruined by a very angry brother.
Charlotte Lady Schreiber · myth
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The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Islands
Three castaways chase treasure maps and civilize islands while dodging witch doctors and mysterious skeletons.
Roger T. Finlay · novel
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King Solomon's Mines
Three Englishmen walk into a desert looking for one missing brother and stumble upon a kingdom.
H. Rider Haggard · novel
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"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks
A spoiled rich boy falls overboard and joins a Gloucester fishing crew. Professional manners ensue.
Rudyard Kipling · novel
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Ten Years Later
An aging musketeer finances a king's return while a young monarch finds thirteen million gold coins in his basement.
Alexandre Dumas · novel
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The Vicomte de Bragelonne
A bankrupt English king seeks a crown, an aging musketeer invests in a kidnapping, and Louis XIV learns to rule.
Alexandre Dumas · novel
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The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms
A naval officer trades his Jersey marriage for a French dukedom, only to find the revolution cares little for titles.
Gilbert Parker · novel
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Tarzan of the Apes
A stranded English infant is raised by apes, learns to read from a primer, and discovers a complicated inheritance.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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Lord Jim
A merchant officer jumps from a sinking ship; he spends the rest of his life explaining why.
Joseph Conrad · novel
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The gods of Mars
A man leaves Earth to find his wife, but Mars has better dungeons.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
A ward discovers his guardian is a murderer; now, he must choose a side.
Robert Louis Stevenson · novel
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The Lost Continent
Jefferson Turck expects to find a lost cousin civilization; he finds zebras grazing on London.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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Triplanetary
Amphibious aliens invade Earth to mine its iron, forcing humanity to invent inertialess travel and survive a high-speed orbital war.
E. E. Smith · novel
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Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
A linguist wanders England, debates religion, hangs out with nomads, and fights for his honor.
George Borrow · novel
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She
A Cambridge professor and his handsome ward follow an ancient pottery shard to a murderous, immortal queen in a volcanic cave.
H. Rider Haggard · novel
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The prisoner of Zenda
A man looks exactly like a king. The king is kidnapped. Things escalate.
Anthony Hope · novel
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Captain Blood
A doctor is sold into slavery for treating rebels; he takes to the sea for payback.
Rafael Sabatini · novel
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Dave Dawson with the Commandos
Two teenage pilots must infiltrate an occupied airfield and outsmart the Luftwaffe's finest.
Robert Sidney Bowen · novel
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Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale
An inventor hunts a metallic whale, but finds a shipwrecked comedy of errors instead.
Luis Senarens · novel
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My Ántonia
An orphan boy and a Bohemian immigrant girl navigate the brutal Nebraska prairie, where the soil breaks men and makes women.
Willa Cather · novel
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The Princess and the Goblin
The goblins want the princess as a bride, but they forgot about the mountain's plumbing.
George MacDonald · novel
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Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures
A boy who throws barrel-staves at laundry shops learns the Scout Oath and creates total social confusion.
Percy Keese Fitzhugh · novel
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The Motor Boys in Mexico; Or, The Secret of the Buried City
Three friends, a bug-collecting professor, and a temperamental automobile navigate Mexican brigands to find a subterranean Aztec ruin.
Clarence Young · novel
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The Bobbsey Twins in the Country
Two sets of twins invade the countryside, bringing the city with them one disaster at a time.
Laura Lee Hope · novel
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Fifth
Two youths cross the African continent using camels, steamers, and donkeys while citing every famous explorer's notes along the way.
Thomas Wallace Knox · travel
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Rob Roy
A merchant's son goes to Scotland to fix his father’s ledger and meets a legendary outlaw with a sword.
Walter Scott · novel
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The Son of Tarzan
A British peer's son runs to the jungle, becomes a killer, and brings a surprise home.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Born in Newgate, she survives five husbands, one accidental brother, and twelve years of professional thievery to die a wealthy penitent.
Daniel Defoe · novel
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Jungle Tales of Tarzan
He lives in the canopy, talks to apes, and remains entirely perplexed by snakes.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · collection
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The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem
A Portuguese explorer braves unmapped oceans, jealous gods, and hostile merchants to trade pepper for national glory.
Luís de Camões · myth
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
A simple earthquake turns a buggy ride into a long, subterranean haul through weird civilizations.
L. Frank Baum · novel
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The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
A shipwrecked trio manages a tropical paradise with Victorian efficiency until pirates and cannibals interrupt their botanical studies.
R. M. Ballantyne · novel
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
A sailor is trusted to move a fortune, but he decides that he is the fortune's new owner.
Joseph Conrad · novel
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The Frogs
Dionysus goes to the Underworld to rescue a poet, but the candidates won't stop bickering.
Aristophanes · play
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Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
A lawyer-turned-actor taunts the aristocracy until the country literally explodes around him.
Rafael Sabatini · novel
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The Romany Rye
A linguist-blacksmith wanders the English countryside while trading horses, repairing carriages, and debating total strangers.
George Borrow · novel
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Greenmantle
British spies race across Europe to prevent a German-backed holy war from setting the East on fire.
John Buchan · novel
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Rinkitink in Oz
King Rinkitink loves jokes, his goat loves sarcasm, and their island just lost its entire population.
L. Frank Baum · novel
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Tarzan loses his memory, a thief steals his retirement fund, and the priestess of Opar wants a husband.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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The Spoilers
A miner returns to Nome to find his gold mine stolen by the very judge sent to protect it.
Rex Beach · novel
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Howard Pyle's Book of pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
A collection of grim maritime encounters where treasure usually comes with a side of betrayal and a sharp dirk knife.
Howard Pyle · short story
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The Wandering Jew
A century-old fortune, a shadowy Jesuit plot, and a cursed traveler collide as seven heirs race toward a multi-million-franc deadline.
Eugène Sue · collection
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The Beasts of Tarzan
An escaped convict kidnaps an infant, leading a nobleman to recruit a panther and a pack of apes for revenge.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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Frank Merriwell, Jr.'s, Helping Hand; Or, Fair Play and No Favors
A golden-boy athlete defends his friend against a frame-up in the Arizona territory.
Burt L. Standish · novel
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The Coming Race
An American traveler falls down a hole and finds a winged master race fueled by a world-ending energy source.
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton · novel
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The Son of Monte-Cristo
The Count’s heir survives Saharan kidnappings and slave marts while his father attempts to resign from the business of revenge.
Jules Lermina · novel
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Lucian's True History
A weary traveler promises the absolute truth about moon-men, space-spiders, and living inside a whale, then admits he is lying.
of Samosata Lucian · novel
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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
Two sailors desert their ship for a tropical paradise, only to realize their new hosts might be planning a barbecue.
Herman Melville · novel
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Orlando Furioso
A paladin goes mad, a hippogriff visits the moon, and two lovers fight fate to start an Italian dynasty.
Lodovico Ariosto · myth
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The Secret of Chimneys
A drifter takes a job delivering memoirs and ends up accidentally inheriting a throne and a murder investigation at a country house.
Agatha Christie · novel
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The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall
Three brothers balance farm chores, mystery-solving, and the final weeks of military school.
Edward Stratemeyer · novel
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Peter the Brazen: A Mystery Story of Modern China
A telegraphist with supersonic hearing lands in China and discovers the local intrigue is deafening.
George F. Worts · novel
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The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House
A shuttered window, a sliding stair landing, and an unopened letter lead a club of girls to a family reunion.
Hildegard G. Frey · novel
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The Air Pirate
A sky-cop loses his fiancée to a high-tech pirate and goes undercover in Cornwall to ground a flying fortress.
Guy Thorne · novel
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Monte-Cristo's Daughter
A suitor loses his mind in the Colosseum, a flower-girl causes a scandal, and a hidden doctor saves the day.
Edmund Flagg · novel
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The Car of Destiny
A romantic exile chases his lady across Spain in a car while dodging royal guards.
C. N. Williamson · novel

More Popular Stories

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Set in Silver
Two people tour England by car, argue about honor, and slowly realize they are the only ones not lying.
C. N. Williamson · novel
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One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York
An engineer returns to New York, finds a dead man's license, and marries a Lady before his luggage is unpacked.
Louis Tracy · novel
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Cynthia's Chauffeur
An American heiress hires a driver, only to get a viscount in disguise.
Louis Tracy · novel
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The Silent Barrier
Helen heads to the Swiss Alps, only to find three men and a very quiet mountain.
Louis Tracy · novel
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The Man in the Brown Suit
A girl witnesses a London subway death and decides to solve the case herself.
Agatha Christie · novel
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The Boy with Wings
A girl likes a pilot, a pilot likes his plane, and a war changes the flight plan.
Berta Ruck · novel
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A Honeymoon in Space
Two newlyweds take a gap year, except it is in space and they are fighting Martians.
George Chetwynd Griffith · novel
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Blue-grass and Broadway
A broke girl from Kentucky arrives on Broadway, and a theater producer learns that some plays actually work.
Maria Thompson Daviess · novel
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The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California
An Englishman wanders into a Mexican blood feud, and a very capable American brings extra ammunition.
Gustave Aimard · novel
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One of the Six Hundred: A Novel
A cavalry officer faces war, a secret engagement, and an unwelcome suitor named Lord Slubber de Gullion.
James Grant · novel
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The Misplaced Battleship
A galactic con man turns detective when a massive warship vanishes from a shipyard using nothing but forged paperwork.
Harry Harrison · novel
In the library
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Maurice Leblanc · collection
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The Blue Lagoon: A Romance
Two children shipwreck on a deserted island, grow up, and accidentally discover the birds and the bees.
H. De Vere Stacpoole · novel
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The Secret Adversary
Two young, broke, and bored Londoners decide to start an adventure agency; they immediately find a dangerous international conspiracy.
Agatha Christie · novel
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Catriona
A young laird risks the gallows to save a friend, only to be abducted by his own government.
Robert Louis Stevenson · novel
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The Hawk of Egypt
A girl wanders through Cairo with a bulldog, while a mysterious man warns her about the desert.
Joan Conquest · novel
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Priscilla's Spies
Priscilla hunts a German spy in an Irish bay, while her cousin Frank tries to maintain his dignity.
George A. Birmingham · novel
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My Friend the Chauffeur
Two gentlemen offer an upscale road trip, but their passengers bring secrets, heirs, and one persistent prince.
C. N. Williamson · novel
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The Mask: A Story of Love and Adventure
A husband leaves for diamonds; an impostor takes his place in the living room.
Arthur Hornblow · novel
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Thuvia, maid of Mars
A princess gets kidnapped, a prince pursues, and they both stumble into a city of imaginary people.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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'Firebrand' Trevison
A man loses his land to a crooked railroad scheme and decides that judges make excellent prisoners.
Charles Alden Seltzer · novel
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The Riddle of the Sands
Two amateur sailors find a German invasion fleet lurking in the shallows of the North Sea.
Erskine Childers · novel
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Project Cyclops
An ex-agent’s recreation of the Odyssey goes poorly when a gunship shows up.
Thomas Hoover · novel
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The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure
A masked ball in New Orleans, a suicide pact in the city, and several ways to die for gold in Alaska.
Rex Beach · collection
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The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century
A powerful Duke wants a woman for his collection. He forgets to consult her brother.
Georgette Heyer · novel
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From Kingdom to Colony
A spirited girl in Marblehead keeps secrets, dodges redcoats, and helps forge a new nation.
Mary -1914 Devereux · novel
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Trial by water
A husband tests his wife's loyalty against a rapids-running sawyer. Nature provides the verdict.
Sewell Peaslee Wright · short story
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Love-at-arms
A noblewoman refuses her arranged marriage. Her spurned suitor brings a siege engine; she brings a fortress.
Rafael Sabatini · novel
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The Yeoman Adventurer
A farmer joins a rebellion but finds that dodging dragoons is less complicated than his love life.
George W. Gough · novel
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Complete Short Works of George Meredith
A merchant protects his daughter from a Kaiser, a General endures weaponized sketches, and a house succumbs to the tide.
George Meredith · collection
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The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
A man wanders the road, clashes with a corrupt political machine, and accidentally becomes a hero.
Holman Day · novel
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The Railway Children
The father vanishes, the family moves to the countryside, and the local express train becomes their only lifeline.
E. Nesbit · novel
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The First of the English: A Novel
A sea captain infiltrates Spanish occupied Flanders to steal the Duke of Alva's tax gold and his favorite daughter.
Archibald Clavering Gunter · novel
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The Lost World
A professor claims he found dinosaurs; a reporter goes to prove him wrong.
Arthur Conan Doyle · novel
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Plague Ship
The Solar Queen carries a cargo of spice, but unfortunately, they also brought home a space-plague.
Andre Norton · novel
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The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
A young knight vows to pluck German feathers, sparking a bloody cycle of kidnapping, revenge, and border skirmishes.
Henryk Sienkiewicz · novel
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The Revolt on Venus
Three cadets take a summer vacation to Venus and accidentally dismantle a planet-wide conspiracy.
Carey Rockwell · novel
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The warlord of Mars
An Earthman navigates Martian politics, religious zealots, and a very inconvenient kidnapping to save his wife.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
In the library
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
Ingersoll Lockwood · collection
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The Land That Time Forgot
A tug-of-war over a submarine ends with British and German sailors stranded in an Antarctic valley full of dinosaurs.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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The Chessmen of Mars
A princess is blown off course, captured by telepathic heads, and forced into a live-action board game where every move is fatal.
Edgar Rice Burroughs · novel
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The last dragon
A group of children tries to hide a full-sized dragon under a bed. Logistics ensue.
Dan Totheroh · novel
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The Ultimate Weapon
The Mirans need a steady star, and Sol is currently occupied by humans.
John W. Jr. Campbell · novel
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Tarrano the Conqueror
Tarrano intends to rule three worlds, but Lady Elza has other plans for his future.
Ray Cummings · novel
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The Colors of Space
A fugitive teenager hides on a Lhari ship and accidentally learns how to navigate the stars.
Marion Zimmer Bradley · novel
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Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
A captain and his orderly are launched into space when a comet hits the Mediterranean.
Jules Verne · novel
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A Martian Odyssey
A stranded chemist makes a friend on Mars. His friend is a bird-thing that talks in whistles.
Stanley G. Weinbaum · short story
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The man who mastered time
A physicist and his friend travel 28,000 years into the future to find New York under ice and hierarchy.
Ray Cummings · novel

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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
A vengeful captain drafts a crew into his private war against a specific sperm whale with a grudge.
Herman Melville · novel
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The Odyssey
One war, ten years lost at sea, and several gods with grudges.
Homer · myth · 1 on Boovie
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The Mabinogion
A giant king crosses a sea on foot while his sister’s wedding feast is ruined by a very angry brother.
Charlotte Lady Schreiber · myth
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The Tempest
A sorcerer maroons his enemies on an island. Then things get complicated.
William Shakespeare · play
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Anne of Green Gables
An elderly farming duo requests an orphan boy for help; the orphanage sends an imaginative girl instead.
L. M. Montgomery · novel
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
A scholar finds a coded note in an old book and decides the only logical response is jumping into a volcano.
Jules Verne · novel
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Four Arthurian Romances
Knights errant, runaway sparrow-hawks, and swords for bridges: the standard operating procedure for Arthur's table.
de Troyes active 12th century Chrétien · collection
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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
A ship's surgeon visits a land of six-inch politicians and a kingdom of giants who treat him like a doll.
Jonathan Swift · novel
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Treasure Island
A boy finds a map, a squire hires a mutinous crew, and a parrot screams for pieces of eight.
Robert Louis Stevenson · novel
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Lucian's True History
A weary traveler promises the absolute truth about moon-men, space-spiders, and living inside a whale, then admits he is lying.
of Samosata Lucian · novel
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The Frogs
Dionysus goes to the Underworld to rescue a poet, but the candidates won't stop bickering.
Aristophanes · play
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
A rogue captain drives a submarine around the world; his guests want off.
Jules Verne · novel
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Around the World in Eighty Days
A man wagers his fortune on a clock, then realizes he miscounted the calendar.
Jules Verne · novel
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
A shipwrecked man spends three decades building a personal kingdom out of goatskin, salvaged planks, and solitary prayer.
Daniel Defoe · novel
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Kim
An Irish orphan wanders India as a Buddhist disciple while moonlighting for the British Secret Service during the Great Game.
Rudyard Kipling · novel
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Orlando Furioso
A paladin goes mad, a hippogriff visits the moon, and two lovers fight fate to start an Italian dynasty.
Lodovico Ariosto · myth
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The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem
A Portuguese explorer braves unmapped oceans, jealous gods, and hostile merchants to trade pepper for national glory.
Luís de Camões · myth
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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
A boy pulls a sword from a stone, founds an elite fellowship, and watches it crumble through betrayal and magic.
Thomas Sir -1471 Malory · myth
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Peter Pan
A boy flies into a nursery, steals three siblings, and refuses to apologize for it.
J. M. Barrie · novel
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The Count of Monte Cristo
A man is betrayed on his wedding day and spends fourteen years deciding who pays.
Alexandre Dumas · novel
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Two princes crash-land in a pastoral utopia, adopt disguises, and accidentally make both the King and Queen fall in love with them.
Philip Sidney · novel
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Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since — Complete
An English soldier visits Scotland for a quiet holiday and accidentally joins a revolution to restore a king.
Walter Scott · novel
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The three musketeers
A country boy arrives in Paris, insults three legends, and suddenly everyone is fighting for the Queen.
Alexandre Dumas · novel
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
Three Englishmen attempt to solve the mysteries of the Nile by floating across the continent in a double-walled hydrogen balloon.
Jules Verne · novel
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A boy flees his drunk father, finds an enslaved man, and descends the Mississippi toward freedom.
Mark Twain · novel
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
A boy wants to avoid school, witness his own funeral, and find treasure without doing any actual chores.
Mark Twain · novel
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Lord Jim
A merchant officer jumps from a sinking ship; he spends the rest of his life explaining why.
Joseph Conrad · novel
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The call of the wild
Stolen from a sunny estate, a heavy-muscled dog learns to trade his collar for the kill-or-be-killed logic of the Arctic.
Jack London · novel
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Two captains and a boat crew head west with trade beads, flannel shirts, and a very detailed diary habit.
Meriwether Lewis · collection
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Rinkitink in Oz
King Rinkitink loves jokes, his goat loves sarcasm, and their island just lost its entire population.
L. Frank Baum · novel
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The Voyage of the Beagle
A young naturalist boards a survey ship for five years, encountering jaguars, glaciers, and severe seasickness.
Charles Darwin · Travel
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The Innocents Abroad
An American skeptic travels through the Holy Land, mocking overly enthusiastic pilgrims, dishonest guides, and the general lack of soap.
Mark Twain · travel
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The Riddle of the Sands
Two amateur sailors find a German invasion fleet lurking in the shallows of the North Sea.
Erskine Childers · novel
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Cursed be the treasure
A boy grows up in a shadow of secrets, chasing a treasure that promises only ruin.
H. B. Drake · novel
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Set in Silver
Two people tour England by car, argue about honor, and slowly realize they are the only ones not lying.
C. N. Williamson · novel
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Howard Pyle's Book of pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
A collection of grim maritime encounters where treasure usually comes with a side of betrayal and a sharp dirk knife.
Howard Pyle · short-story
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
An undercover detective infiltrates a cabal of anarchists, only to find the revolution is surprisingly bureaucratic.
G. K. Chesterton · novel

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!Tention: A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War
George Manville Fenn · novel
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'Drag' Harlan
Charles Alden Seltzer · novel
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'Firebrand' Trevison
A man loses his land to a crooked railroad scheme and decides that judges make excellent prisoners.
Charles Alden Seltzer · novel
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'Smiles': A Rose of the Cumberlands
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"Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West
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"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks
A spoiled rich boy falls overboard and joins a Gloucester fishing crew. Professional manners ensue.
Rudyard Kipling · novel
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13 Days: The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison
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1970: A Vision of the Coming Age
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6,000 Tons of Gold
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A backwoods princess
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A Balloon Ascension at Midnight
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A Bicycle of Cathay
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A Bid for Fortune; Or, Dr. Nikola's Vendetta
Guy Boothby · novel
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A Big Temptation
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A biographical memoir of the late Dr. Walter Oudney, Captain Hugh Clapperton, both of the Royal Navy, and Major Alex. Gordon Laing, all of whom died amid their active and enterprising endeavours to explore the interior of Africa
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A Bitter Heritage: A Modern Story of Love and Adventure
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A Book of American Explorers
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A Book of Discovery
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A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open
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A Bookful of Girls
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A Border Ruffian
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A Bounty Boy
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