THE GREAT ADVENTURE Boxed Set: 56 Action-Adventure Classics, Spy Thrillers & Historical Novels
56 Classic Adventures, Spy Thrillers & Historical IntrigueBy Emma Orczy
Length288h 48m
About this audiobook
THE GREAT ADVENTURE Boxed Set gathers fifty-six action-adventure classics, spy thrillers, and historical novels into a panoramic anthology of popular narrative from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its pages move among clandestine missions, political conspiracies, perilous journeys, romantic intrigues, and conflicts shaped by revolution and war. The collection's literary appeal lies in its vigorous pacing, dramatic reversals, secret identities, and morally legible contests between courage and tyranny. Read in the context of imperial adventure fiction, sensation literature, and the early spy novel, it also reveals how writers transformed contemporary anxieties about national power, social upheaval, and modern technology into compelling entertainment. Emma Orczy, best known for The Scarlet Pimpernel, brought aristocratic settings, theatrical suspense, and ingenious disguises to the adventure tradition. Born in Hungary and raised partly in Britain, she wrote amid the intense nationalism and political uncertainty of fin-de-siècle and Edwardian Europe. Her success helped establish the masked hero and covert rescuer as enduring figures in popular fiction, while her work reflects both the romantic ideals and class assumptions of its age. This boxed set is recommended for readers who want an expansive introduction to adventure and espionage fiction, as well as for students tracing the development of historical romance and popular narrative. It offers sustained excitement, remarkable variety, and a valuable opportunity to examine how literary suspense has evolved across genres and generations.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Mystery and Thriller
Length288 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 11, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE GREAT ADVENTURE Boxed Set: 56 Action-Adventure Classics, Spy Thrillers & Historical Novels
2The Ultimate Adventure Collection: Complete Novels, History of the Pirates, Military Biographies (Annotated)
3The Scarlet Pimpernel Series
4The Laughing Cavalier
5AN APOLOGY
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6THE PROLOGUE
7CHAPTER I NEW YEAR'S EVE
8CHAPTER II THE FRACAS BY THE POSTERN GATE
9CHAPTER III AN INTERLUDE
10CHAPTER IV WATCH-NIGHT
11CHAPTER V BROTHER AND SISTER
12CHAPTER VI THE COUNSELS OF PRUDENCE
13CHAPTER VII THREE PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR FRIENDS
14CHAPTER VIII THE LODGINGS WHICH WERE PAID FOR
15CHAPTER IX THE PAINTER OF PICTURES
16CHAPTER X THE LAUGHING CAVALIER
17CHAPTER XI THE BARGAIN
18CHAPTER XII THE PORTRAIT
19CHAPTER XIII THE SPANISH WENCH
20CHAPTER XIV AFTER EVENSONG
21CHAPTER XV THE HALT AT BENNEBROCK
22CHAPTER XVI LEYDEN
23CHAPTER XVII AN UNDERSTANDING
24CHAPTER XVIII THE START
25CHAPTER XIX IN THE KINGDOM OF THE NIGHT
26CHAPTER XX BACK AGAIN IN HAARLEM
27CHAPTER XXI A GRIEF-STRICKEN FATHER
28CHAPTER XXII A DOUBLE PLEDGE
29CHAPTER XXIII A SPY FROM THE CAMP
30CHAPTER XXIV THE BIRTH OF HATE
31CHAPTER XXV AN ARRANT KNAVE
32CHAPTER XXVI BACK TO HOUDEKERK
33CHAPTER XXVII THENCE TO ROTTERDAM
34CHAPTER XXVIII CHECK
35CHAPTER XXIX CHECK AGAIN
36CHAPTER XXX A NOCTURNE
37CHAPTER XXXI THE MOLENS
38CHAPTER XXXII A RUN THROUGH THE NIGHT
39CHAPTER XXXIII THE CAPTIVE LION
40CHAPTER XXXIV PROTESTATIONS
41CHAPTER XXXV THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE
42CHAPTER XXXVI BROTHER PHILOSOPHERS
43CHAPTER XXXVII DAWN
44CHAPTER XXVIII THE HOUR
45CHAPTER XXXIX "SAUVE QUI PEUT"
46CHAPTER XL THE LOSER PAYS
47CHAPTER XLI "VENGEANCE IS MINE"
48CHAPTER XLII THE FIGHT IN THE DOORWAY
49CHAPTER XLIII LEYDEN ONCE MORE
50CHAPTER XLIV BLAKE OF BLAKENEY
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