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Wreck of the Titan, or Futility

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Action & Adventure Fiction
Chapter: 16 | Listen: 7

The Titan: the latest and most awesome industrial feat of modern luxury ocean liner, holding two thousand passengers, is set to sail the Northern Lane Route between New York and England. This alleged unsinkable and indestructible vessel is set to beat the record for this voyage in less than 5 days! In her crew: John Rowland; a drunk, and washed-out naval seaman. On the passenger list: Myra Selfridge, and her little daughter. A former lover who wants nothing to do with Rowland, due to his drinking. After a collision with an Iceberg and all hands deemed lost, Rowland finds himself fighting for life on an ice floe…and in his charge: keeping alive Myra’s little daughter! (This novella was written 14 years before the Titanic set sail) – Summary by Joe DeNoia [chương_files]

Elissa

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Anthropologists have studied the ruins of a great city and temple in Zimbabwe, and it has left them in wonder. The construction and markings are Phoenician, but how was it developed so far South of the Fertile Crescent? Who built it and why? How was it destroyed? H Rider Haggard has elaborated on this in the novel, Elissa. It is the story of the love of Prince Aziel, an Israelite grandson of both Solomon the Wise and a daughter of Pharaoh, and Elissa of Zimboe, a priestess of Baal. They are faced with impossible relationship choices on which depend the lives of thousands, and even their own immortal souls. (Summary by Keith Salis) [chương_files]

Female American

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Published before 1800
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 8

“The Female American; Or The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield, Written by Herself in Two Volumes” was anonymously published under the pseudonym Unca Eliza Winkfield in 1767. Unca Eliza, a half-Native American and half-English woman, is shipwrecked on an island. Discovering the remnants of past civilization, Unca Eliza utilizes the tools she finds and her extensive knowledge (derived from her experience with both the English and Native Americans) to survive the island and immanent encounters with indigenous peoples. This audiobook is a collaborative project by graduate students in the English Department at the University of Oregon. – Summary by Kathleen Gekiere [chương_files]

Blue Behemoth

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction
Chapter: 4 | Listen: 4

Shannon’s Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian swamp-town—to find that death stalked it from the jungle in a tiny ball of flame. (Summary from the text) [chương_files]

Winnetou II

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Action & Adventure Fiction
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 7

In diesem Band verfolgt Winnetou weiterhin den Mörder Santer. Währenddessen führt es den Ich-Erzähler Old Shatterhand kreuz und quer durch die USA. Er reitet zunächst nach St. Louis, wo er die geretteten Zeichnungen im Surveying Office abgibt, dann verschlägt es ihn nach New York. Er trifft neue und alte Bekannte und besteht mit ihnen mehrere neue Abenteuer im Westen. – Zusammenfassung von Katharina21 [chương_files]

Clubfoot the Avenger

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers
Chapter: 21 | Listen: 3

At the conclusion of The Return of Clubfoot, Dr. Grundt has been left for dead on a south sea island by former secret agent Desmond Oakwood. Oakwood and his brother Francis are now retired from the Secret Service and are living comfortably retired in England. But the body of an apparent suicide is discovered in a car park in London, and the possibility that Grundt is alive and seeking revenge in England pulls the Oakwoods out of retirement to once again face the sinister and deadly CLUBFOOT. – Summary by sjmarky [chương_files]

Maiwa’s Revenge; Or, The War of the Little Hand

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Action & Adventure Fiction
Chapter: 8 | Listen: 6

While hunting elephants in the country of Wambe, big game Hunter Allan Quartermain gets word that an old friend, John Every, is a captive of Wambe. Quartermain plans an attack by another tribe on Wambe’s village to rescue Every. Summary by Derek Trial. [chương_files]

Pirates

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction, War & Military Fiction
Chapter: 26 | Listen: 4

A dozen men jailbreak from a naval prison, and steal the newest destroyer tied up at the docks to escape in: the fastest ship in the navy. However a young officer was the only one on board, and is now a part of the voyage to escape. Things get tense when he awakens, and finds his boyhood rival and enemy is one of the jailbreakers on board! Can the officer find a way to sabotage their escape, without being thrown overboard himself? – Summary by Joe DeNoia [chương_files]

Pirate, and The Three Cutters

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction
Chapter: 26 | Listen: 3

Pirates are the subject of many a dime novel and boys’ stories, but they tend to be portrayed as one-dimensional. Such is the case here. The captain of The Avenger is a Byronic or even a Michael Scottish hero—an impossible monster, compounded of one virtue and a thousand crimes. Marryat drew on his recollections of the time when he was a midshipman with Cochrane in the Impèrieuse, for the figure of the old steersman, who sticks to his post under the fire of the Avenger. The Three Cutters was written to pad out the novel The Pirate and deals with smuggling. It is a farcical romp, with too many women in a man’s world to be credible. [chương_files]

Na srebrnym globie

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction
Chapter: 21 | Listen: 6

Czy ciemna strona Księżyca jest martwa, czy też nadaje się do zasiedlenia? Na to pytanie, nurtujące ludzkość od wieków, postanawia znaleźć odpowiedź grupa śmiałków. Organizują więc wyprawę na Srebrny Glob. Wśród jej uczestników znajduje się także kobieta, co okaże się brzemienne w skutkach. O zmaganiach członków ekspedycji z niewyobrażalnymi przeciwnościami oraz własnymi słabościami dowiadujemy się z dziennika, prowadzonego przez jednego z nich. Mimo oczywistych naiwności w warstwie naukowej (powieść napisana w 1903 roku), historia wyprawy jest znakomitym pretekstem do stawiania wciąż aktualnych pytań o ludzką kondycję. Jak radzimy sobie z własnymi demonami, jak kształtuje się nowe społeczeństwo i z czego wynika jego nieodparta potrzeba religijności. Na srebrnym globie. Rękopis z Księżyca – jest pierwszą częścią Trylogii księżycowej Jerzego Żuławskiego. (Summary by Jarek Celuch) [chương_files]