World's Great Adventure Stories
| Book | World's Great Adventure Stories |
| Publisher | Black's Readers Service Company |
| Copyright Holder | Walter J. Black, Inc. |
| Contributing Writer | Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, H. Rider Haggard, Leonid Andreyev, Théophile Gautier, Diómedes de Pereyra, Honoré de Balzac, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gunner M. Smith, Hugh Clifford, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Émile Zola, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Christopher Columbus, Ambrose Bierce, Pierre Loti, Rudyard Kipling, William Morris, Mikhail Artsybashev, Mark Twain, Gentile Sermini, Thomas Paine, Leo Tolstoy, Barry Pain, Captain Marryat, Edgar Allan Poe, Otmar, Ivan Turgenev, Counsellor F. Gottschalck, Paul Heyse, Professor Thomas J. Dimsdale, Rafael Enriquez, Paul du Chaillu, Lothar, Bret Harte, Olive Schreiner, Jonathan Swift, Carlos Varras, Voltaire, Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke, Jules Verne, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Carlo Gozzi, Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Plato, William Henry Murray, Cotton Mather, Doctor J. Grimm, Wilkie Collins, Egerton Castle, Joseph Addison, George M. McCrie, S. Nowell, Doctor J. Soffing, Prosper Mérimée, W. Clark Russell, François Coppée, Arthur Machen, James Fenimore Cooper, Guillaume Spitta-Bey, Selma Lagerlöf, Maxim Gorky, Ludwig Tieck, Ricardo Palma, Eugene Field, Giovanni Boccaccio, G. R. Widman, Verner von Heidenstam, S. R. Crockett, Carmen Sylva, Washington Irving, Alexander Pushkin, B. S. Ingemann, James P. Beckwourth, Charles Reade, Eberhardt, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Nikolai Gogol |
| Series | La Comédie humaine, Études de mœurs, Scènes de la vie militaire |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Roslyn, New York |
| Copyright | 1929 |
| Pages / Font | 504 pages |
| Chapters | 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 |
| Notes | Printed in the United States of America |
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