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World's Great Adventure Stories

  • 590 pages · about 10 hours
  • First published 1929
  • 5 editions
  • Free to read

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1 About this book

Siege of Berlin / Alphonse Daudet The white wolf / Guy de Maupassant The honor of von Bulow / Alexandre Dumas Wreck of the Copeland / H. Rider Haggard The Marseillaise / Leonid Andreyev Love in a pool / Theophile Gautier King of the jungle / D. de Pereyra A passion in the desert / Honore de Balzac Sire de Maletroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson Capture of the Guerriere / Gunner M. Smith Quest of the golden fleece / Hugh Clifford An adventure / Anton Chekhov The white wale / Herman Melville A moonlight adventure / Emile Zola Ring of Thoth / A. Conan Doyle Count Mortier, madman / Victor Hugo Possession of the island / Christopher Columbus Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce Wife of an Icelander / Pierre Loti Taking of Lungtungpen / Rudyard Kipling The lovers / William Morris The doctor / Michael Artzybashev The negro mate / Mark Twain Lady Cardina / Gentile Sermini Alexander the Great / Thomas Paine The visitor / Persian Nights Sevastopol / Leo Tolstoi Moon-slave / Barry Pain The triple…

Good for readers who want: a classic, adventure, and a long read.

  • Classics
  • Action and adventure fiction
  • Adventure
  • Horror
  • Juvenile audience
  • Civil war
  • Hanging
  • Fear

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3 About Alphonse Daudet

1840–1897

Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet (French:; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist and writer of short stories. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.

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