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The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard

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The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rudolf Erich Raspe · 140 pages

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Conan (Book 1)

Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter · 221 pages

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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

C.S. Forester · 258 pages

1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command... As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's Navy, Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. With a

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Captain Blood Returns

Rafael Sabatini · 296 pages

This book explores the further adventures of Captain Peter Blood part time doctor, full time pirate

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Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson · 278 pages

KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound

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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy · 242 pages

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John Carter of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 127 pages

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With Fire and Sword

Henryk Sienkiewicz · 745 pages

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Miguel Street

V.S. Naipaul · 176 pages

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Mr. Midshipman Easy

Frederick Marryat · 349 pages

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The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · 555 pages

Three great swordsmen, Porthos, Aramis, and Anthos, with their protege, D'Artagnan, match wits with the sinister Cardinal Richelieu who seeks to divide the royalty in his own quest for power.

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Sharpe's Christmas: Two Short Stories

Bernard Cornwell · 68 pages

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce · 36 pages

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", it was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in Bierce's book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). The story, which is set

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Bran Mak Morn

Robert E. Howard · 234 pages

In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism ... all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race.

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The Gun Ketch

Dewey Lambdin · 400 pages

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The World of Jeeves

P.G. Wodehouse · 564 pages

The collection (first published in 1967, reprinted in 1989) contains all of the Jeeves short stories (with the exception of "Extricating Young Gussie") presented more or less in narrative chronological order.

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Jack Absolute

C.C. Humphreys · 330 pages

In 1777, Jack Absolute is famous - as the dashing lover in Sheridan's famous comedy 'The Rivals'. However, this notoriety comes as something of a shock to the real Jack Absolute when he disembarks at Portsmouth after four months at sea, and seven years in India.

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Ivanhoe

Walter Scott · 484 pages

The father of the historical novel, Sir Walter Scott invented a literary form that has remained popular for over one hundred and fifty years. Infusing his works with romance, action, and suspense, he brought long-gone eras back to life with splendor and spectacle.Set in England just after the Third Crusade, Ivanhoe is the tale of Wilfrid, a young Saxon knight, and his love for the royal princess R

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The Long Ships

Frans G. Bengtsson · 503 pages

Med en stor portion humor och en berättarglädje som knappast har något motstycke i den svenska litteraturen är Röde Orm en av våra få verkligt levande klassiker som har fängslat generationer av läsare. Orms äventyr börjar när han som yngling av en slump hamnar på ett vikingaskepp. Hans fortsatta öden berättas i dråpliga episoder om hans tid som galärslav och livvakt hos kalifens visir Almansur

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The Golden Ocean

Patrick O'Brian · 288 pages

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The Walking Drum

Louis L'Amour · 468 pages

Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russi

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King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard · 220 pages

King Solomon’s Mines was published in September 1885, becoming an immediate best seller by tapping into people’s excitement for the unknown: in this case, the unexplored regions of Africa. Haggard wrote the novel in a very short period, between six and sixteen months, on a bet with his brother to try to match Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. In the process he created a new literary ge

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The Barbary Pirates

William Dietrich · 336 pages

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