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A Master of Fortune [en] (1898)
Hyne Description: "The pay is small enough," said Captain Kettle, staring at the blue paper. "It's a bit hard for a man of my age and experience to come down to a job like piloting, on eight pound a month and my grub." |
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El duelo [es] (1908)
Conrad |
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La llamada de la selva [es] (1903)
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L'Île au trésor [fr] (1883)
Stevenson Description: Le héros de cette histoire est Jim Hawkins, fils d'un tenancier d'auberge dans un port anglais, sur la côte ouest de l'Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle. Le principal client de cette auberge se trouve êt... |
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Bull Hunter [en] (1924)
Brand Description: Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. Nobody west of the Pecos would have dared run afoul of the mighty ... |
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The Filibusters [en] (1900)
Hyne Description: This story deals with the participants in an expedition that successfully captures the presidency of a Central American republic. It is very exciting, the incidents being fresh and daring with not ... |
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Historia de la vida del Buscón [es] (1626)
Quevedo Description: El Buscón es un relato de la peripecia vital del pícaro don Pablos de Segovia, desde su infancia a la proyectada fuga a Indias con que termina la obra. Entre estos dos polos se sitúa una serie de a... |
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Manuscrito hallado en una botella [es] (1833)
Poe Description: Un joven desarraigado pero de esmerada educación se embarca en un buque de carga en la Isla de Java. El viaje es accidentado y en el transcurso de una tormenta toda la tripulación, salvo el joven y... |
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Les Amants de Venise [fr] (1909)
Zévaco Description: La suite du Pont des soupirs, l'accomplissement de la terrible vengeance de Roland Candiano... |
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Le Pont des soupirs [fr] (1909)
Zévaco Description: Les Vénitiens en liesse acclament Roland Candiano, le fils du doge, qui s'apprête à fêter ses fiançailles avec Léonore, descendante de l'illustre famille Dandolo - et pourtant le doge et la dogares... |
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La Cour des miracles [fr] (1910)
Zévaco Description: Ce deuxième tome va peu à peu dénouer l'écheveau habilement noué par l'auteur dans Triboulet. Trois personnes, enlevées à leurs parents dans leur tendre enfance, vont voir leur destin s'entrecroise... |
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Borgia ! [fr] (1906)
Zévaco Description: À partir de personnages et de faits réels, l'auteur a imaginé une formidable épopée: celle d'un chevalier français, pauvre mais plein d'audace, le jeune Ragastens qui, après s'être mis au service d... |
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The Turtles of Tasman [en] (1916)
London Description: A minor collection that includes the amazing "Told in the Drooling Ward." |
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Tales of the Fish Patrol [en] (1905)
London Description: Stories set on the San Francisco Bay of London's youth, including "A Raid on the Oyster Pirates." |
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The Strength of the Strong [en] (1914)
London Description: Includes "The Dream of Debs," "South of the Slot," and "The Unparalleled Invasion." |
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South Sea Tales [en] (1911)
London Description: Darker Pacific tales, including "Mauki" and "The Terrible Solomans." |
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A Son of the Sun [en] (1912)
London Description: A number of lesser-known South Pacific tales. |
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The Red One [en] (1918)
London Description: Features the haunting title novella, well worth comparing to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." |
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On the Makaloa Mat [en] (1919)
London Description: The best Hawaii stories, and among London's best stories overall, including "Shin Bones" and "The Water Baby." |
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Moon-Face & Other Stories [en] (1906)
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Lost Face [en] (1910)
London |
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The God of his Fathers & Other Stories [en] (1901)
London Description: Tales from Northland. |
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The Faith of Men & Other Stories [en] (1904)
London Description: Tales from the Klondike. |
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Dutch Courage and Other Stories [en] (1922)
London Description: A collection of very early stories published posthumously, with a preface by his wife Charmian. |
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Children of the Frost [en] (1920)
London Description: Tales from the Klondike. |
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Hearts of Three [en] (1918)
London Description: Originally intended as a film scenario, this plot is an improbably adventure story that can't help but bring to mind the "Lost Ark" films of decades later! |
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Michael, Brother of Jerry [en] (1917)
London Description: This story of brutality toward animals inspired a movement known as the Jack London Clubs, which were devoted to the cause of animal welfare and humane treatment. |
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Jerry of the Islands [en] (1917)
London Description: Jerry is a dog whose experiences reflect the cruelty and racism of colonial Melanesia. |
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La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades [es] (1554)
Anonymous Description: Lazarillo de Tormes es un esbozo irónico y despiadado de la sociedad del momento, de la que se muestran sus vicios y actitudes hipócritas, sobre todo las de los clérigos y religiosos. http://es... |
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La Fin de Fausta [fr] (1926)
Zévaco Description: La suite du volume IX, La Fin de Pardaillan, et la fin de ce cycle majeur dans l'oeuvre de Zévaco. |
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La Fin de Pardaillan [fr] (1926)
Zévaco Description: Paris, 1614. Louis XIII n'est qu'un jeune garçon de quatorze ans. La reine mère Marie de Médicis est régente et les Concini abusent de sa faiblesse pour usurper le pouvoir et piller le trésor royal... |
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Captain Gardiner of the International Police [en] (1916)
Allen Description: In the far flung year of 1975 ("sixty years after the last and most terrible European war") Captain Gardiner, a squarejawed two-fisted Slab Thunkchest type, is the best agent that the International... |
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The Abysmal Brute [en] (1911)
London Description: A prize fighter faces the corruption of civilization and finds redemption in the wilds of California. |
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Burning Daylight [en] (1910)
London Description: A tale of the Klondike Goldrush and the corrupting influence of high stakes capitalism. |
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The Teeth of the Tiger [en] (1914)
Leblanc |
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Dick Sands the Boy Captain [en] (1878)
Verne |
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Le Fils de Pardaillan [fr] (1916)
Zévaco Description: Nous sommes à Paris en 1609. Henri IV règne, sous la menace permanente des attentats. Le chevalier de Pardaillan, qui n'a pas retrouvé son fils, rencontre un jeune truand, Jehan-le-Brave, en qui il... |
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Les Amours du Chico [fr] (1913)
Zévaco Description: La suite de Pardaillan et Fausta. Au cours de son ambassade à la Cour d'Espagne, Pardaillan est amené à protéger une jeune bohémienne, La Giralda, fiancée d'El Torero, Don César, qui n'est autre qu... |
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Pardaillan et Fausta [fr] (1913)
Zévaco Description: 1590. À Rome, Fausta, après avoir mis au monde le fils de Pardaillan, bénéficie de la grâce du pape Sixte Quint, qui se prépare à intervenir auprès du roi d'Espagne Philippe II dans le conflit qui ... |
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Belle-Rose [fr] (1847)
Achard Description: Belle-Rose, gentilhomme et soldat, ne peut obtenir la main de sa belle, car il ne peut prétendre à la fortune, ou à la noblesse de son rival. Il annonce qu'il les gagnera et qu'il reviendra... Suiv... |
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Before Adam [en] (1907)
London Description: A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Too... |
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The Game [en] (1905)
London Description: On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the ... |
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The Son of the Wolf [en] (1900)
London Description: Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of... |
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The Sea Wolf [en] (1904)
London Description: Chronicles the voyages of a ship run by the ruthless Wolf Larsen, among the greatest of London's characters, and spokesman for an extreme individualism London intended to critique. |
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20.000 Mijlen onder zee [nl] (1870)
Verne |
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Winner Take All [en] (1930)
Howard |
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Waterfront Fists [en] (1930)
Howard |
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Vikings of the Gloves [en] (1932)
Howard |
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The Slugger's Game [en] (1934)
Howard |
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The Bull Dog Breed [en] (1930)
Howard |
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Texas Fists [en] (1931)
Howard |
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Sluggers on the Beach [en] (1934)
Howard |
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Night of Battle [en] (1932)
Howard |
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General Ironfist [en] (1934)
Howard |
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Fist and Fang [en] (1930)
Howard |
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Circus Fists [en] (1931)
Howard |
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Champ of the Forecastle [en] (1930)
Howard |
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The Gates of Chance [en] (1904)
Sutphen |
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On a Torn-Away World [en] (1913)
Rockwood Description: Jack and Mark build an airship and head North, hoping to find a rare plant that grows only in Alaska. But a freak earthquake causes a chunk of the Earth, along with our protagonists, to fly into ou... |
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Lost on the Moon [en] (1911)
Rockwood Description: After learning of a diamond field on the Moon, our crew heads for the satellite, where they discover a petrified city populated by petrified people. |
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Through Space to Mars [en] (1910)
Rockwood Description: Mark and Jack enroll in the Universal Electrical & Chemical College, and meet the inventor Santell Roumann. Santell has discovered a new fuel source called Etherium, and together the group builds a... |
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Five Thousand Miles Underground [en] (1908)
Rockwood Description: Dismantling the dirigible-ship Monarch & the submarine Porpoise, our crew constructs from the combined parts the Flying Mermaid which is both airship & submarine. They leave their home in Maine & h... |
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Under the Ocean to the South Pole [en] (1907)
Rockwood Description: The adventuresome crew builds a submersible craft, the Dolphin, that runs on sea water and chemicals. On the maiden voyage they battle sea monsters, pass through a sunken graveyard, and discover an... |
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Through the Air to the North Pole [en] (1906)
Rockwood Description: Orphans Mark and Jack are fostered by Professor Henderson, with help from the professor's assistant Washington White and his friend Andy Sudds, the big game hunter. In their first adventures the Pr... |
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The Mysterious Island [en] (1874)
Verne Description: The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Begining in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Vir... |
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Off on a Comet [en] (1911)
Verne Description: The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on t... |
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Cord and Creese [en] (1868)
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Lost in the Fog [en] (1870)
De Mille |
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [en] (1888)
De Mille |
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Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive [en] (1922)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters [en] (1921)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Undersea Search [en] (1920)
Appleton Description: Times have changed. The Great War is over and money is getting hard to come by. Mr. Damon shows up with a new friend, who promises wealth from the bottom of the sea. Tom reluctantly agrees to join ... |
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Tom Swift and His Air Scout [en] (1919)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His War Tank [en] (1918)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders [en] (1917)
Appleton Description: Tom has had enough of adventure and swears he is going to stay home and live the life of a sedate scientist, working on his many patent applications. He spots a magazine article written by Professo... |
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Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel [en] (1916)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship [en] (1915)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone [en] (1914)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon [en] (1913)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight [en] (1912)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera [en] (1912)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift in Captivity [en] (1912)
Appleton Description: The story opens with Tom complaining that life lacks adventure. It's been a while since they returned from Siberia, and a fresh Adrenaline fix is needed to take the edge off sitting around and read... |
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Tom Swift and His Air Glider [en] (1912)
Appleton Description: Far ranging adventures through the sky over Russia, as Tom and his friends search for the lost Platinum mines... |
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Tom Swift in the City of Gold [en] (1912)
Appleton Description: The story opens with Tom receiving a letter from Africa, containing a crude map. The rest of the story can be summed up in a mere three words: Acute Gold Fever, or AGF. Jacob Illingway, the Protest... |
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Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle [en] (1911)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Sky Racer [en] (1911)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice [en] (1911)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers [en] (1911)
Appleton Description: Barcoe Jenks, the nervous and eccentric financier, enlists Tom's aid to travel to Colorado and determine the method of making artificial (and perfect!) gemstones -- the secret of this method having... |
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Tom Swift and His Wireless Message [en] (1911)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout [en] (1910)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat [en] (1910)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Airship [en] (1910)
Appleton |
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Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat [en] (1910)
Appleton Description: The tale of great boat races and thrilling experiences with Tom Swift the boatman. |
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Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle [en] (1910)
Appleton |
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The Tide Mill [en] (2008)
Herley Description: The setting is feudal Sussex in the thirteenth century, a landscape and society that have changed almost beyond recognition. The power of the Church is at its zenith, and the bishop of Alincester i... |
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The Penal Colony [en] (1987)
Herley Description: It is 1997. The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails. Among all these colonies, Sert, 25 miles off the north Cornish co... |
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The Earth Goddess [en] (1984)
Herley Description: It is 3000 BC. The cult of the Earth Goddess is controlled throughout the vast empire of Europe by the secretive and unscrupulous Red Order, the priesthood which manipulates all power for its own e... |
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The Flint Lord [en] (1981)
Herley Description: This novel of intrigue, violence and betrayal in the land of our Stone Age forefathers is a magnificent successor to the author's The Stone Arrow. Here, spurring the Flint Lord's drive for conquest... |
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The Stone Arrow [en] (1978)
Herley Description: When the men of Burh, settlers from continental Europe, fall upon the sleeping nomad tribe in the depths of the forest amid the Downs of southern England, Tagart is the only survivor, escaping by s... |
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The Trampling of the Lilies [en] (1906)
Sabatini |