Adventure Books

The Cat and the Canary

 Author:John Willard, David Muncaster Category:Mystery Published: 01/01/1922  Language: English  File Size: 419 MB  Tags:Black and white | Classics | comedy | Fiction | Horror | Mystery | Plays |  Description: The Cat and the Canary by John Willard, David Muncaster, a story concerns the death and inheritance of old Cyrus West, a rich eccentric who felt that his relatives “have watched my wealth as if they were cats, and I — a canary”.

Three Men in a Boat

 Author:Jerome K. Jerome Category:Humor Published: 01/01/1889  File Size: 591 KB  Tags:Adventure | British Literature | Classics | comedy | Fiction | Humor | Literature | novel | Travel |  Description: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome is about three friends and a dog rowing their way along the Thames toward Oxford. This story revolves round, more or less, the adventure of three men who decide to take a break from their monotonous life and take a …

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My Man Jeeves

 Author:P G Wodehouse Category:Humor Publisher:Paperback Published: 01/05/1919  Language: English  File Size: 1.1 MB  Tags:Best Sellers | British Literature | Classics | comedy | Fiction | Historical Fiction | Humor | short stories | Description: My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes.

Man and Superman

Author:George Bernard Shaw Category:Humor Published: 01/01/1903  Language: English  File Size: 1.3 MB  Tags:Classics | comedy | drama | Fiction | Ireland | Literature | Philosophy | Plays | Theatre |  Description: Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw is a Victorian-era play in which a young woman, Ann, uses her attractiveness to manipulate John Tanner, a highly intelligent social revolutionary into marrying her.

Antic Hay

 Author:Aldous Huxley Category:Humor Published: 01/01/1923  Country: United Kingdom  Language: English  File Size: 2.2 MB  Tags:Classics | comedy | drama | Fiction | Humor | novel |  Description: Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley summarized whole theme of this novel as “contemporary civilization is damnable, and…the dark stream of Time is the only reality.” A 1961 scholarly journal article characterized the book’s theme as “disunity, disorder and disorganization” whose characters “illustrate a disreputable world disintegrating into fragments. A satire …

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A Prefect’s Uncle

Author:P G Wodehouse Category:Humor Published: 11/09/1903  Language: English  File Size: 925 KB  Tags:British Literature | Childrens | Classics | comedy | Fiction | Humor | School | Sports | Description: A Prefect’s Uncle by P G Wodehouse , the action takes place at the fictional “Beckford College”, a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arrival at the school of a mischievous young boy called Farnie, who turns out to be the uncle of the older …

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We Hunt the Flame

Author:Hafsah Faizal Category:Fantasy Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 14/05/2019  Language: English  File Size: 3.7 MB  Tags:Adventure | Fantasy | Fiction | magic | Romance |  Description: We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal, explores the theme of morality, love, truth and honour. It tells the story of Zafira, a legendary hunter who disguises herself as a man in order to travel into a dangerous forest to feed her people. The story also follows Nasir, …

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The Way of Kings

Author:Brandon Sanderson Category:Fantasy Publisher:Tor Books Published: 31/08/2010  Language: English  File Size: 8 MB  Tags:Adventure | Epic | Fantasy | Fiction | magic | Science fiction | Description: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, explores the theme of Social hierarchy.  Literary awards

The Time Machine

 Author:H. G. Wells Category:Fantasy Published: 01/01/1895  Language: English  File Size: 643 KB  Tags:Adventure | Classics | Dystopia | Fantasy | Fiction | Literature | Science fiction | Time Travel |  Description: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, discussed about Humans, Nature, and the Universe One of the most radical aspects of The Time Machine is that it questions the centrality of human beings to history by challenging the notion that humans will endure in their present form forever. …

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The Poppy War

 Author:R. F. Kuang Category:Fantasy Published: 01/05/2018  File Size: 4.2 MB  Tags:Fantasy | Fiction | Historical | magic | War | Description: The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang, explores the theme of war, colonization, racism, colorism, genocide and cycles of abuse. Literary awards