World's Great Adventure Stories

VOLUME I Siege of Berlin — Alphonse Daudet The White Wolf — Guy de Maupassant Honor of von Bulow — Alexandre Dumas Wreck of the Copeland — H. Rider Haggard The Marseillaise — Leonid Andreyev Love in a Pool — Theophile Gautier [actually by Robert Reichert ; adapted from a story by Théophile 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 VOLUME II An Adventure — Anton Chekhov The White Whale — 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 Wire of an Icelander — Pierre Loti Taking of Lungtungpen — Rudyard Kipling The Lovers — William Morris VOLUME III 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 Duel — Captain F. Marryat The Pit and the Pendulum — Edgar Allan Poe Castle Dumburg — Otmar VOLUME IV Foma, the Wolf — Ivan Turgenieff The Lock Lady — Counsellor F. Gottschalck The Fury — Paul Heyse Jack Slade, Bandit — Professor T. Dimsdale A Coward? — Rafael Enriquez First Gorilla — Paul du Chaillu The Arch-Rogue — Lothar The Outcasts of Poker Flat — Bret Harte The Hunter — Olive Schreiner The Dancing Courtiers — Jonathan Swift VOLUME V The Crucific — Carlos Varras An Adventure in India — Voltaire William Tell — Johann Zscokke Balloon and Comet — Jules Verne Torture by Hope — De Lisle Adam Three Geniuses — Carlo Gozzi My Strange Adventure — Karl Von Munchhausen The Gray Champion — Nathaniel Hawthorne Adventure in the Other World — Plato Furnace of the Gale — William Henry Murray VOLUME VI In Both Camps — War Records Ocean Pearls — Cotton Mather The Black Christian — Doctor J. Grimm Yellow Tiger — William Wilkie Collins Master Huldebrand — Egerton Castle A Tale of Jack Freelove — Joseph Addison By Ford and Flow — George M. McCrie Captain Coucy — Parisian Papers The Maid of Bregenz — S. Nowell Duke Alva — Doctor J. Soffing VOLUME VII Taking of the Redoubt — Prosper Merimee Lazarette — W. Clark Russell The Young Sheep Herder — Arabian Nights A Piece of Bread — Francois Coppee A Society Adventure — Arthur Machen Corporal Flint's Murder — J. Fenimore Cooper King of the Emerald Sea — Spitta-Bey The Outlaws — Selma Lagerlof A Love Adventure — Maxim Gorky The Venus-Berg — Lewis Tieck VOLUME VIII The Scorpion — Ricardo Palma Conky Stiles — Eugene Field The Woman at Corfu — Giovanni Boccaccio Death of the Arch-Sorcerer — G. R. Widman Mazeppa's Guide — Verner Von Heidenstam Smugglers of the Clone — S. R. Crockett Kiss of Death — Carmen Sylva The False Venus — Washington Irving The Shot — Alexander S. Pushkin Sealed Room — Bernhard Ingemann VOLUME IX An Indian Amazon — Chief J. P. Beckworth Autobiography of a thief — Charles Reade Queen Zemrouda — Eberhardt The Gypsy's Prophecy — Pedro de Alarcon The Black Imp — La Motte Fouque Cromwell's Pickpocket — Historical Archives A Chinese Adventure — Nathaniel P. Willis St. John's Eve — Nikolai Gogol