Category: Action Adventure Audiobooks

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The 45-chapter novel was published in 31 weekly installments in Dickens’ new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. From April 1859 to November 1859, Dickens also republished the chapters as eight monthly sections in green covers. Dickens’ previous novels had appeared only as monthly installments. The first weekly installment of A Tale of Two Cities ran in the first issue of All the Year Round on 30 April 1859. The last ran thirty weeks later, on 26 November.

15 Hours and 18 Minutes.

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The first in the series of books featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are compiled from a collection of single stories originally published in Strand Magazine and subsequently gathered into a single volume. Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the cases unfold as he does, scratch our heads as does he while the evidence is collected, and then marvel at the impeccable observations, remarkable insight, and doggedness which Holmes displays as he teases apart the tangled clues.

11 Hours and 10 Minutes

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Phileas Fogg is a rich British gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °C) instead of 86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (£2,075,400 in 2017)[5] from his fellow club members to complete such a journey within this time period. With Monsieur Passepartout accompanying him, Fogg departs from London by train at 8:45 p.m. on 2 October; if he is to win the wager, then he will have to return to the club by this same time on 21 December, 80 days later.

The adventures on their journey are abundant and imaginative, making for a fun read, with a cliffhanger ending into the bargain, Around the World in Eighty Days is a hard book to put down!

Continue reading Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

A World War II boys’ adventure story about serving in the Army Air Core, and the many adventures, mishaps and even sorrows that beset the young men serving for their homeland in time of war. Our young hero, Barry Blake, fresh out of high school, heads off to pilot school with his good friend Chick. Sadly, Chick doesn’t make it, due to the workings of the detestable villain Crayle, and has to settle for bombardier school, but Barry, however, graduates with flying colors. Next, he then heads off to learn how to fly the famous Flying Fortress, the Boeing B-17F.
Adventures abound as Barry and his fellow crew on the Sweet Rosie O’Grady (named affectionately for the Captain’s dear wife) head off to war. Barry, only nineteen years old, is quickly promoted from co-pilot to main pilot when the pilot loses his arm in battle. Despite their plane being shot through like crazy, the crew manage to almost single handedly sink a Japanese aircraft carrier, land on beaches and create their own airfield, and rally to do their best and carry out their mission. Suspense rides high as they struggle to make it through and bring the crew home safe!

5 Audio CD’s – 5 Hours and 15 Minutes.

Continue reading Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress by Gaylord DuBois

Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is imprisoned and the family goods confiscated. When Ben-Hur saves the fleet captain from drowning after his ship is sunk in a fight with pirates, that officer adopts him as son and heir. With Roman training, Ben-Hur distinguishes himself in the arena and the palistrae and appears to be on the way to high military command.

With the help of a faithful family retainer and a generous Arab sheik, Ben-Hur is enabled to take part in a widely touted chariot race, where one of the other charioteers is the boyhood friend who connived to punish him for the accident and split his estate. That rival is crippled, financially and bodily, in a no-holds-barred race (memorable from the 1959 movie with Charlton Heston).

Ben-Hur turns his attention to the prophesied King of the Jews, when through the sheik he meets Balthasar, one of the Three Wise Men, and hears of the child born years ago. Will Ben-Hur be the general who brings victories to the King, and finally liberates Israel from the oppressive Roman yoke? In his quest for the answer, Ben-Hur seeks out the Nazarene, now rumored to be The Messiah.

23 Hours and 2 Minutes.

Continue reading Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws in Tunstall Forest organized by Ellis Duckworth, whose weapon and calling card is a black arrow, cause Dick to suspect that his guardian Sir Daniel Brackley and his retainers are responsible for his father’s murder. Dick’s suspicions are enough to turn Sir Daniel against him, so he has no recourse but to escape from Sir Daniel and join the outlaws of the Black Arrow against him. This struggle sweeps him up into the greater conflict surrounding them all. An exciting historical novel that encapsulates the tumultuos story of the Wars of the Roses.

8 Audio CD’s – 8 Hours and 42 Minutes.

Continue reading Black Arrow – A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson

A short historical fiction, set during the American Civil War which gives air to the work of those daring shipmen and their worthy vessels, known as The Blockade Runners. In this story a Scottish merchant, Captain James Playfair, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns and food to the Confederates in Charleston, South Carolina. He sells his cargo at high prices, in exchange for low prices on the cotton piling up unsold on their wharves. Mid story a couple of unexpected passengers are discovered, one being a Miss Jenny Halliburtt, who boards the ship secretly in attempt to reach and rescue her father, who has been imprisoned by General Beauregard in Charleston. Captain James, impressed by her gallantry, brave attitude, and frank behavior, promises to help rescue her father. Not the typical Science-Fiction that Jules Verne was known for, but a short, adventurous, and enjoyable historical novel, which throws in a sweet and innocent romantic thread for good measure, one that is quite refreshing among the typical media of our day and age.

2 Hours and 1 Minute.

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The Call of the Wild is long-loved action adventure, with typical emotional highs and lows. Buck is living a happy life in California, when he is stolen and then sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsh rules of survival in the North. One of his first lessons is how to deal with being harnessed in the same team as a dog that wants to kill him. Large, strong and smart, Buck draws on the strength of his breeding as a powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Collie to face the challenges of his new life. But even the toughest dog can be worn down by constant work and ill-treatment, and after 3,000 miles of pulling sleds, Buck nears the end of his rope. Cast away as no longer useful, Buck is acquired by greenhorns whose inexperience nearly kills him, but after being saved by John Thornton, he at last finds a man he can love. Then on a remote gold-hunting expedition, Buck hears a call emanating from the woods and speaking to the wild heart of his distant ancestors. The lure of it almost balances the great love he bears for Thornton, but events take him away from his old life… and into legend. Eventually he is free to answer the call that has been tugging at him- The Call of the Wild.

3 Hours and 22 Minutes.

Continue reading Call of the Wild by Jack London

Harvey Cheyne, Jr. is the spoiled, self-important son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his wife, in San Diego, California. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. Disko Troop, captain of the schooner We’re Here, offers him temporary membership in the crew until they return to port, and Harvey later accepts.
Through a series of trials and adventures, Harvey, with the help of the captain’s son Dan Troop, becomes acclimated to the fishing lifestyle, and even skillful. Eventually, the schooner returns to port and Harvey wires his parents, who immediately hasten to Boston, Massachusetts, and thence to the fishing town of Gloucester to recover him. There, Harvey’s mother rewards the seaman Manuel, who initially rescued her son; Harvey’s father hires Dan to work on his prestigious tea clipper fleet; and Harvey begins his career in his father’s shipping lines.

5 Hours and 54 Minutes.

Continue reading Captain’s Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland decide to launch a rescue expedition. The main difficulty is that the coordinates of the wreckage are mostly erased, and only the latitude (37 degrees) is known.
Lord Glenarvan makes it his quest to find Grant; together with his wife, Grant’s children and the crew of his yacht the Duncan they set off for South America. An unexpected passenger in the form of French geographer Jacques Paganel joins the search. They explore Patagonia, Tristan da Cunha Island, Amsterdam Island, Australia and New Zealand in their search for the castaways.

16 Hours and 29 Minutes.

Continue reading In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne