the WORLD’S CLASSIC ACTION ADVENTURE STORIES
From adventures on the high seas, to airship quests; whether on the side of rogues, heroes or something in between, we have the classic adventures here that have kept generations of readers turning pages. It’s the weird, the wonderful, and the wild.
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Dumas: The Musketeers & Robin Hood
Three famous adventure series in one volume. The Three Musketeers, Robin Hood Outlaw, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and The Count of Monte Cristo. These are some of the greatest adventure tales in the western canon - written by one of the first internationally famous writers of color, a grandson of Haitian slaves that would leave an indelible mark on the western canon.
Pirate Tales & Sea Adventures
Here you will find a collection of classic pirate tales and sea adventures from some of the most famous writers from the English canon. James Fenimore Cooper's enchanting tales of the sea; Richard Connell's timeless short story, The Most Dangerous Game; Howard Pyle's unforgettable and beautifully illustrated Book of Pirates; and a bonus treasure for the most hard core sea story fan, R.M. Ballentyne's The Coral Island.
Gothic Masters
Four masters of the Gothic short story in one elegant, comprehensive volume. This treasure trove of well-known and obscure gems is sure to resonate today with old favorites and new discoveries. Mortality, loss, and pain are specters which haunt these timeless stories. The supernatural stalks in shadows, pushing characters and readers to towards the edge of our understanding of psychology, metaphysics, and morality. These masterpieces provide shivers of terror, the frisson of fascination with the occult, and a strange comfort in the universality of fear regarding the unknown, mortality, and our own depths of human darkness. Here is an updated version of these stories formatted for all e-readers. Light a candle, grab a blanket, pour a cognac and delve into the work of some of the most enigmatic and ingenious writers of American gothic literature.
Adventures of Robin Hood
All the classic tales of Robin Hood from from prose, poetry, and verse. Includes Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Alexandre Dumas' Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and Robin Hood Outlaw as well as stories by Andrew Lang, Frank Sidgwick, Paul Cheswick, Henry Justice Ford, Joseph Riton, Maud Isabel (M.I.) Eddutt, J. Walker McSpadden, Howard Pyle, Thomas Love Peacock, George Manville Fenn. Includes the novel Maid Marian, poems from anonymous old English sources, and dozens of timeless illustrations. Plus a Bonus Book of Andrew Lang's illustrated book of Romance (Romantic Medieval Tales).
Best of Philip K. Dick & Jules Verne
Philip K. Dick: The Crystal Crypt; Beyond the Door; The Eyes Have It; The Hanging Stranger; The Piper in the Woods; Beyond Lies the Wub; Second Variety; Mr. Spaceship; The Skull; The Gun; Tony Beetle; The Defenders; The Variable Man
Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Around the World in Eighty Days;
The Mysterious Island Trilogy (Abandoned, & The Secret of the Island); Journey to the Center of the Earth; The Underground City; The Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon; Off on a Comet
Castaways of the Flag (a Swiss Family Robinson Adventure) and more. . .
The Ultimate King Arthur Tales
In one volume, the ultimate collection of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table tales spanning from Thomas Malory (Le Morte d'Arthur) to Mark Twain (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court). This ebook also features the epics of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mary Esther Miller, Andrew Lang, Thomas Bulfinch, Henry Gilbert, James Knowles, Howard Pyle, Maude Radford Warren, and William Henry Frost; also includes original black and white and color illustrations from Howard Pyle, Lancelot Speed, Walter Crane, Henry Justice Ford, and Mark Twain himself. Mark Twain's Personal Reminiscences of Joan of Arc are included as a lesser known companion piece of medieval adventure.
Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, & Franz Kafka
The work of these ground breaking work echoes today in everything from X-Files and Stranger Things, to non-fiction essays exploring the dangers of genetic engineering, class exploitation, and mental illness.
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Bram Stoker – Dracula’s Guest; Dracula
H.P. Lovecraft – The Shunned House; The Dunwich Horror
Franz Kafka – The Trial; The Metamorphosis.
A rollicking collection of science fiction that influenced everything that came after from George Lucas and Star Wars to Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek. In this collection you will find the timeless action adventure stories that are the forerunners of the science fiction stories that have taken over pop culture. Complete novels in this download:
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars (Barsoom) Series: A Princess of Mars; Gods of Mars; Warlord of Mars; Thuvia, Maid of Mars; Chessmen of Mars
The Best of H.G. Wells:The Invisible Man; The Time Machine; The Island of Dr. Moreau; War of the Worlds; The War in the Air and more. . .