Title: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
A Scandal in BohemiaTo Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love […]
Title: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
Adventure I
Silver Blaze
“I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,” said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.
“Go! Where to?”
“To Dartmoor; to King’s Pyland.”
I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed upon […]
Title: The Daniel Defoe Collection
Author: Daniel Defoe
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
Daniel Defoe - Born toward the of the summer of 1660, died on April 24, 1731- original surname Foe, Defoe altered it in 1703English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, author of ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719), a story of a man shipwrecked alone on an island. Along with Samuel Richardson, […]
Title: Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good
family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of
Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by
merchandise, and leaving off his trade lived afterward at York, from
whence he had […]
Title: The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Category: Adventure, Classic
Description:
CHAPTER I - REVISITS ISLANDTHAT homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. “That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,” was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that […]
Title: Rob Roy
Author: Walter Scott
Category: Adventure, Classic
Annotation:
For why? Because the good old rule
Sufficeth them; the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can.
Rob Roy’s Grave Wordsworth
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Title: TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
Author: JULES VERNE
Category: Adventure, Children, Classic
Description:
PART ONE
CHAPTER I
A SHIFTING REEF
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious
and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population
and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents,
seafaring men were […]
Title: Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Adventure, Children, Classic
Description:
PART ONE
The Old Buccaneer
1
The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these
gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole
particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning
to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the
island, and that only because there […]
Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Author: Frank Baum
Category: Adventure, Children, Classic
Description:
Introduction
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all […]
Title: AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Author: Verne Jules
Category: Adventure, Children, Classic
Description:
Chapter I
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER,
THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington
Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of
the most noticeable members of […]