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Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
A Real Romance of the South Sea
Summary
Two seamen escape from their service onboard a whaling ship, only to find themselves trapped among savages in the Marquesas Islands.
Written by
Herman Melville
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Scotland Yard’s first female investigator sets out to prove the innocence of a convicted forger.
Written by
Edgar Wallace
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
After a tower mansion is robbed, two boys are determined to find the culprit and exonerate their friend’s father.
Written by
Franklin W. Dixon
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Children's · Fiction · Mystery
Source
Standard Ebooks
Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
Summary
Six siblings search for treasure in order to restore their lost family fortune.
Written by
E. Nesbit
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Children's
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Rival colonies are stranded on an alien world, their memories mixed with those of their ancestors and pitted against each other by the Western and Soviet forces who sent them.
Written by
Andre Norton
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Science Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Three shipwrecked youths encounter delights and dangers as they attempt to escape their uninhabited tropical island paradise.
Written by
R. M. Ballantyne
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Children's · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A young boy begins his apprenticeship with Doctor Dolittle, accompanying him on a series of adventures in search of a floating island and a missing naturalist.
Written by
Hugh Lofting
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Children's · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad
Summary
After coming into his fortune and evading his uncle’s schemes, young gentleman David Balfour continues his adventures in 18th century Scotland, helping a politically unwelcome friend escape into France, avoiding the hangman himself, finding his place as a gentleman in Edinburgh society, and falling in love with the daughter of a notorious Macgregor clansman.
Written by
Robert Louis Stevenson
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Children's · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An old enemy kidnaps Tarzan’s family, and Tarzan must rescue them with the help of his panther and ape friends.
Written by
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Stranded U-boat survivors and their rescuers contend with dangerous beasts and prehistoric people in a strange lost world.
Written by
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Science Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Romance
Summary
A disinherited knight returns from the Crusades and fights back against Prince John’s reign.
Written by
Walter Scott
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An English doctor is caught up in a rebellion and sentenced to transportation to the Caribbean, but later escapes slavery to become a pirate.
Written by
Rafael Sabatini
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An orphaned street-urchin follows a holy man across India during the time of the British Raj, eventually gaining an education and becoming a recruit to the Great Game of espionage against the Russians.
Written by
Rudyard Kipling
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A team of scientists and adventurers explores a prehistoric land.
Written by
Arthur Conan Doyle
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fantasy
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
On a bet, an eccentric Victorian gentleman races to circumnavigate the globe.
Written by
Jules Verne
Translated by
George Makepeace Towle
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A wild half-wolf survives a harsh existence before finding love and domestication in civilization.
Written by
Jack London
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
To prevent the passage of a controversial government bill, four vigilantes take the law into their own hands.
Written by
Edgar Wallace
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A group of recently-pardoned former vigilantes aids Scotland Yard in bringing a gang of thugs and murderers to justice.
Written by
Edgar Wallace
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A group of wealthy vigilantes continue their quest to bring justice to those criminals beyond the reach of conventional law.
Written by
Edgar Wallace
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
The police are out of their depth as counterfeit bills circulate through the city, but two amateur sleuths are on the case.
Written by
Franklin W. Dixon
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Children's · Fiction · Mystery
Source
Standard Ebooks