60 Adventure Classics
Sixty Timeless Tales of Shipwreck, Treasure, Lost Worlds, Frontier Survival, and Swashbuckling DaringBy Alexandre Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Rider Haggard, G. A. Henty, Jack London, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jules Verne, Maurice Leblanc, Bret Harte, H. G. Wells, R. M. Ballantyne, George Augustus Sala, Max Brand, James Fenimore Cooper, Zane Grey, Daniel Defoe, Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Mary Mapes Dodge, Mark Twain, Selma Lagerlöf, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Carlo Collodi, Robert Montgomery Bird, H. C. McNeile, Oliver Optic, E. W. Hornung, Baroness Orczy, E. Nesbit, James Oliver Curwood, Mrs. Loudon, William Clark Russell, Frederick Marryat, Richard Henry Dana, Joshua Slocum, Rafael Sabatini
Length964h 33m
About this audiobook
60 Adventure Classics surveys the extraordinary vitality of adventure writing from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, gathering sea tales, imperial romances, frontier narratives, detective exploits, voyages of discovery, and imaginative journeys. Its range extends from satire and historical romance to juvenile fiction, survival narrative, and proto-science fiction, revealing adventure as a capacious form in which danger, mobility, technology, and moral testing converge. Tales of piracy, lost worlds, polar and oceanic travel, and audacious quests stand beside more unsettling meditations on conquest, greed, and the unknown. The contributors form a transnational canon of popular and literary storytelling, linking British, American, French, Italian, Swedish, and other traditions. Their varied careers—among them novelists of empire, maritime observers, journalists, fabulists, children's writers, and innovators of speculative fiction—situate the volume within Romanticism, Victorian mass print culture, colonial-era romance, and the emergence of modern popular genres. Read together, these voices expose both the exhilarations and the ideological pressures of adventure: exploration may promise freedom while also registering empire, racial hierarchy, commerce, and contested landscapes. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking a broad education in the forms that shaped modern adventure fiction. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles, national traditions, and changing conceptions of heroism within a single collection. Students, general readers, and genre historians alike will find in its internal dialogues a compelling map of adventure's enduring imaginative power.
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length964 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Chronicles of Clovis (Annotated)
260 Adventure Classics
3Treasure Island
4Part I The Old Buccaneer
5Part II The Sea Cook
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6Part III My Shore Adventure
7Part IV The Stockade
8Part V My Sea Adventure
9Part VI Captain Silver
10The Count Of Monte Cristo
11VOLUME ONE
12Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
13Chapter 2. Father and Son.
14Chapter 3. The Catalans.
15Chapter 4. Conspiracy.
16Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast.
17Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
18Chapter 7. The Examination.
19Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
20Chapter 9. The Evening of the Betrothal.
21Chapter 10. The King's Closet at the Tuileries.
22Chapter 11. The Corsican Ogre.
23Chapter 12. Father and Son.
24Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
25Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
26Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
27Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
28Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
29Chapter 18. The Treasure.
30Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
31Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If.
32Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
33Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
34Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
35Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
36Chapter 25. The Unknown.
37Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
38Chapter 27. The Story.
39VOLUME TWO
40Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
41Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
42Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
43Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
44Chapter 32. The Waking.
45Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
46Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
47Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.
48Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.
49Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.
50Chapter 38. The Compact.
Die Geschichte einer großen Liebe: Lady Hamilton und Lord NelsonAlexandre Dumas, Heinrich Smidt30h 22m$1 · $0.00
Zwischen Fiktion und Geschichte: Die bedeutendsten historisch-biografischen RomaneAlexandre Dumas, Stefan Zweig, George Eliot, Alfred Schirokauer, Heinrich Vollrat Schumacher, Julius Wolff, Klabund, Jakob Wassermann, Dmitri Mereschkowski, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Arthur Schurig, Ida Gräfin Hahn-Hahn, Franz Werfel, Dora Duncker, Walter Scott, August Sperl, Richard von Kralik, John Erskine392h 21m$1 · $0.00
Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo & The Three MuskateersAlexandre Dumas75h 17m4.5 (4.6K)$95 · $0.00
Les Compagnons de JéhuAlexandre Dumas24h 54m$1.99 · $0.00
El conde de MontecristoAlexandre Dumas53h 23m$1.99 · $0.00
Le Château d'EppsteinAlexandre Dumas8h 49m$1.99 · $0.00
Les GaribaldiensAlexandre Dumas9h 15m$1.99 · $0.00
El Hombre de la Máscara de HierroAlexandre Dumas15h 18m4.1 (78K)$1.99 · $0.00
Geschichtsträger: Charaktere, die Zeiten überbrückenAlexandre Dumas, Stefan Zweig, George Eliot, Alfred Schirokauer, Heinrich Vollrat Schumacher, Julius Wolff, Klabund, Jakob Wassermann, Dmitri Mereschkowski, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Arthur Schurig, Ida Gräfin Hahn-Hahn, Franz Werfel, Dora Duncker, Walter Scott, August Sperl, Richard von Kralik, John Erskine392h 21m$1 · $0.00
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Le Collier de la reineAlexandre Dumas32h 17m4.1 (2.7K)$1.99 · $0.00
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Die Fünfundvierzig (Kommentiert)Alexandre Dumas23h 43m4.4 (35)$1 · $0.00
Alexandre Dumas: 40+ Historical Novels, Adventure Classics & True Crime Stories (Illustrated) (Annotated)Alexandre Dumas511h 46m$2 · $0.00
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