Action & Adventure

Astounding Stories 13, January 1931

Read by Bill Boerst


Sewell Peaslee Wright


This issue contains "The Dark Side of Antri" by Sewell Peaslea Wright, "The Sunken Empire" by H. Thompson Rich, "Th…

A Thief in the Night

Read by Cate Barratt


E. W. Hornung


Gentleman thief A.J. Raffles burgles his way through a series of homes in late Victorian England. A Thief in the Night is a short story coll…

Mr. Justice Raffles

Read by Cate Barratt


E. W. Hornung


A. J. Raffles is a British gentleman thief of some renown who, in this, the hero's final adventure, ironically demonstrates a sense of moral…

Billy Budd

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Herman Melville


Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summar…

Tausend und eine Nacht, Band 4

Read by Bernd Ungerer


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Scheherazade oder Schehersad, die Tochter eines Wesirs, heiratete den König / Sultan, der die Angewohnheit hatte, seine Ehefrauen am er…

The Ego Machine

Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)


Henry Kuttner


Celebrated playwright Nicholas Martin didn’t read the small print in his Hollywood options contract. Now he’s facing five years of servitude…

A Prisoner of Morro

Read by Tom Weiss


Upton Sinclair


Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckrak…

The Shades of the Wilderness

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Joseph A. Altsheler


"The Shades of the Wilderness" is the seventh book of the Civil War Series by Joseph A. Altsheler. Picking up where "The Star…

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice

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Jules Verne


The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced tha…

A Mating in the Wilds

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)


Ottwell Binns


An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict in England, has established a lonely life as a trapper in the north woods.…

The Moon Maid

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Sabotage accidentally takes Earth's first manned interplanetary expedition to the Moon, where a sublunar adventure ensues, involving two int…

Topsy-Turvy

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Jules Verne


Topsy Turvy is a translation of Sans dessus dessous (1889) . This anonymous translation was first published by J. G. Ogilvie (New York, 1890…

Le Avventure d'Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

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Lewis Carroll


Traduzione italiana del celebre romanzo fantastico di Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (meglio noto sotto lo pseudonimo di Lewis Carroll) fatta dal …

Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

Read by Bev J Stevens


William Godwin


The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, …

Once on a Time

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A. A. Milne


When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle …

The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies

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Frank Gee Patchin


The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies is the first book in the 12 part series by Frank Gee Patchin. (Summary by ashleighjane)Next book in the s…

The Thing in the Attic

Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)


James B. Blish


Honath the Pursemaker is a heretic. He doesn’t believe the stories in the Book of Laws which claims giants created his tree-dwelling race. H…

The Life and Death of King John

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William Shakespeare


The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son…

The Notting Hill Mystery

Read by Kevin Green


Charles Warren Adams


Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of "T…

Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers

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Victor Appleton


Tom Swift flies his airship to the mountain tops of Colorado to seek for the secret of the Diamond Makers: criminal scientists who have figu…

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