Action & Adventure

Adventures of Horatio Hornblower

4.5
Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo recreated their roles on a one-hour Lux Radio Theater program broadcast on January 21, 1952. This adaptation …

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad Read by Stewart Wills 4.5
A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

White Fang

by Jack London Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
White Fang (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful Call of the Wild (1903). It is the tale of a wild dog born in the …

The Adventures of Peter Cottontail

by Thornton W. Burgess Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the story of Peter Rabbit, a mischievous, but cautious, lagomorph who lives in the Green Meadows. Peter Rabbit begins his adventures…

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.5
While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beau…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain Read by Steve Andersen 4.6
Come and hear the strange tale of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds …

Famous Sea Fights

by John R. Hale Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
I propose to tell in non-technical and popular language the story of some of the most remarkable episodes in the history of sea power. I sha…

The Amateur Cracksman

by E. W. Hornung Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4.5
"I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial bille…

Ozma of Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by Judy Bieber 4.7
Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy cou…

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, T…

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas Read by David Clarke 4.9
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. He completed the work in 1844. The story takes pl…

By Pike and Dyke

by G. A. Henty Read by David Leeson 4.6
It is the 1570's, and the people of the Netherlands live in terror under the cruel dominion of Spain. Though many long to be free of Spanish…

Lord Tony's Wife

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Another adventure of the Scarlet pimpernel! As the title suggests, it follows the story of Lord Tony and his wife, Yvonne. It is full of sus…

American Fairy Tales

by L. Frank Baum Read by Matthew Reece 4.6
This collection of fantasy stories was originally serialized in regional newspapers, prior to being published as a complete volume. The stor…

The Ultimate Weapon

by John Wood Campbell Jr. Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4
The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little w…

Star Hunter

by Andre Norton Read by Leonie Rose 4.3
"Somewheres on the jungle world of Jumala, there was a man in hiding—a man whose mind had been reconditioned with another's brain patte…

I Will Repay

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Annie Kirkpatrick 4.1
I Will Repay is the thrilling sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, continuing the adventures of the enigmatic hero, Sir Percy Blakeney. Set agai…

Round the Moon

by Jules Verne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Round the Moon is Jules Verne's captivating sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, picking up the thrilling journey of the Baltimore Gun Club…

The Enchanted Island of Yew

by L. Frank Baum Read by Ted Delorme 4.6
A fairy has become bored with her life, and convinces some young girls to transform her into a human boy so she can go on adventures. The ad…

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
Surely the Time Traveler threw great dinner parties! His guests were treated to a once-in-forever trial of a miniature time machine - an exq…

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