The Kidnapping Omnibus Collection: 29 Thrilling Books
Twenty-Nine Classic Tales of Ransom, Rescue, Hidden Identities, and Perilous PursuitBy Friedrich Schiller, Justus Miles Forman, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Frank Savile, P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Boothby, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Andy Adams, Nicholas Carter, Edmond Hamilton, William R. Eyster, Samuel Richardson, George W. Peck, Paul Hutchens, Howard Pyle, Burt L. Standish, Evelyn Raymond, Frank Walton, Howard Roger Garis, Edward Stratemeyer, L. P. Wyman, Frances Trego Montgomery, William Henry Giles Kingston, Elsie Singmaster, Grace Willard Edick, Belle Wiley, Horatio Jr. Alger
Length157h 43m
About this audiobook
The Kidnapping Omnibus Collection gathers twenty-nine narratives in which abduction, concealment, rescue, and pursuit become engines of suspense. Spanning historical romance, detective fiction, boys' adventure, juvenile moral tale, frontier story, comic escapade, and proto-science-fictional thriller, the volume reveals kidnapping as both a sensational plot device and a means of testing loyalty, class, family, and personal agency. Tales of daring recoveries, criminal conspiracies, threatened inheritances, and perilous journeys create a remarkably broad map of popular narrative across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its contributors range from canonical European drama and the early English novel to American dime-fiction, children's literature, maritime adventure, Western writing, and magazine-era mystery. Collectively, these writers represent the expanding literary marketplace shaped by serialization, mass readership, juvenile publishing, and genre specialization. Their varied cultural settings illuminate how captivity could register anxieties about modern crime, imperial travel, domestic authority, frontier violence, and social mobility, while also furnishing opportunities for humor, romance, and heroic self-definition. Recommended for readers of adventure and crime fiction, as well as students of popular literary history, this omnibus offers an unusual comparative archive. Reading across its contrasting idioms and audiences enables readers to trace recurring conventions while appreciating each work's distinctive imaginative world. It is a valuable invitation to explore how many voices transformed a single compelling premise into sustained dialogue across genres and generations.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length157 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes
26II. A MISER'S HOUSEHOLD.
2INTRODUCTION
27III. THE UNWELCOME VISITOR.
3CHAPTER III
28IV. A STARTLING QUESTION.
4CHAPTER VIII
29V. THE COMPACT.
5CHAPTER XI
30VI. CHARLIE AT HOME.
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6CHAPTER XVI
31VII. CAPTAIN BRACE.
7CHAPTER XX
32VIII. THE BLUE CHEST.
8CHAPTER XXIV
33IX. ON BOARD.
9CHAPTER XXVIII
34X. CHARLIE IN A TIGHT PLACE.
10CHAPTER XXXII
35XI. OFF TO SEA.
11CHAPTER XXXV
36XII. LANDLORD AND TENANT.
12CHAPTER XXXIX
37XIII. CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE.
13CHAPTER XLII
38XIV. BERT.
14CHAPTER XLVI
39XV. MRS. CODMAN'S GOOD FORTUNE.
15CHAPTER XLIX
40XVI. THE BEGINNING OF CHARLIE'S SEA-LIFE.
16Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht; Or, A Young Millionaire and the Kidnappers
41XVII. THE RIVAL CHAMPIONS.
17PREFACE
42XVIII. ANTONIO'S RESOLVE.
18CHAPTER V DICK IS SHADOWED
43XIX. CHARLIE'S LAND YARN.
19CHAPTER X UNCLE EZRA'S OFFER
44XX. BILL STURDY'S STORY.
20CHAPTER XVI UNCLE EZRA AS A SAILOR
45XXI. THE PIRATE SHIP.
21CHAPTER XXIII DICK ON THE TRAIL
46XXII. HOW TO ESCAPE FROM A PIRATE.
22CHAPTER XXIX THE RESCUE
47XXIII. ANTONIO'S PLOT.
23Charlie Codman's Cruise
48XXIV. CHARLIE GETS INTO TROUBLE.
24PREFACE.
49XXV. THE REAL CULPRIT IS DISCOVERED.
25I. CHARLIE AND THE MISER.
50XXVI. A STORM BREWING.
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