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The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
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Include books by the same authorThe Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Rudolf Erich Raspe · 140 pages
Conan (Book 1)
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter · 221 pages
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Emmuska Orczy · 242 pages
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
John Carter of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 127 pages
Captain Blood Returns
Rafael Sabatini · 296 pages
This book explores the further adventures of Captain Peter Blood part time doctor, full time pirate
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.
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
Fast Ships, Black Sails
Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer · 241 pages
Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, p
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.
Swords and Ice Magic
Fritz Leiber · 192 pages
"Wonderful, magical Fritz Leiber, before whom Bradbury and Sturgeon and Norton and Goldman and Barth and Vonnegut bow, not to mention Robinson, Busby, Anderson and even yours truly, the maddest egomaniac of them all. Fritz Leiber, very likely the best of all of us, the man who has won more awards than anyone else in the genre, the man whose words have lifted this too often wretched category to Oly
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
Philip Roth · 298 pages
Dramatizations of aspects of American life seen through the comic or tragic predicament of American Jews.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle · 247 pages
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood retells the legends of the English outlaw Robin Hood, adapting the old ballads to be read by children. The story sees Robin become an outlaw and follows his adventures as he recruits Merry Men and outwits the local authorities. Pyle's stories set a precedent for much of the modern Robin Hood mythology and storytelling.
With Fire and Sword
Henryk Sienkiewicz · 745 pages
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
G.A. Henty · 278 pages
The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories
Jack London · 368 pages
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.
Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
Jonathan Swift
The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales
Nikolai Leskov · 356 pages
"But you know how it is: when the devil calls you follow." The Enchanted Wanderer is a Russian Candide with a revolutionary edge, a picaresque that features a fast-talking monk named Ivan who is at war, it seems, with every level of society. Working as a carriage man for a Count, Ivan accidentally causes the death of a monk, which leads to his being ostracized by the local peasantry ... until the
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
E.W. Hornung · 292 pages
A Country Doctor's Notebook
Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas'evich Bulgakov · 160 pages
In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to his position a diploma and a complete lack of field experience. And the challenges he faced didn't end there: he was assigned to cover a vast and sprawling territory that was as yet unvisited by modern conveniences such as the motor car, the telephone, and electric light