Classics

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense. The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean, and somehow locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere...

Jim and his literal shoulder demon have survived, so far, by the skin of their teeth. After finding a long-abandoned starter village, Jim has begun the process of rebuilding his town. Now the poor Noob has to deal with angry townsfolk, trade negotiations, and a talking badger....

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Kayvan Novak, Josh Cohen, Alistair Petrie, and Richard Hughes. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire...

The Greatcoats have found the heir to the throne...but now they must keep her alive, against all the odds....

Knowledge is power. That would be the motto of Lander University, had it not been snatched up and used to death by others long before the school was founded....

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Mark Twains's greatest works: 12 novels; over 120 of his beloved short stories; Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking travel writing....

In my desperation to save Ezra, I stumbled into a web of ruthless deception - and seriously pissed off a sleeping hydra. Now its every murderous head is turned toward me and my guild, and I don't know how to stop it. I'm not sure I can....

A timeless classic of modern-day piracy from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well. For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it’s only when the Campari sails that evening, after a succession of delays that he...

Badgelor has been patient, or at least as patient as a homicidal badger can be. With the celebration of Grebthar Day, it's finally time to go get Charles! Nothing is going to stop Jim and his companions, not even the signs of the Dark Overlord's return....

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea. Twelve hundred British soldiers trapped on a nearby island, with no hope of rescue...

Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound....

Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater....

MacKayla Lane's life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so....

As a guild bartender, I can handle pretty much anything - mages, sorcerers, witches, the occasional demon. But show me anything family-related and I'd rather run for the hills. It doesn't even have to be my family....

Callie Bates’s debut novel, The Waking Land, announced the arrival of a brilliant new talent in epic fantasy. Now, with The Memory of Fire, Bates expertly deepens her tale, spinning glittering threads of magic and intrigue into a vibrant tapestry of adventure, betrayal, mystery, and romance...

From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family...

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west.....

During the year 1866, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster. The United States government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster....

Sir Walter Scott's fanciful, vivid reinterpretation of medieval life makes for a successful novel that blends fact, myth, and romance....

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Norway and Finland. When Giles Denison of Hampstead wakes up in an Oslo hotel room and finds the face looking back at him in the mirror is not his own, things could surely get no more bizarre. But it is only the beginning of a hair-raising...

Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time....

Broke, almost homeless, and recently fired. Those are my official reasons for answering a wanted ad for a skeevy-looking bartender gig....

Michael Palin reads this classic adventure by W. E. Johns, featuring pilot-adventurer James ‘Biggles’ Bigglesworth When Biggles receives a letter from an old wartime chum asking for help, he responds at once. With his comrades, Algy, Ginger and Flight Sergeant Smyth, our hero flies to Fort...

Putting the Grand Quest behind them, the party rides onward in search of answers. Between one member's unexpected new condition and the mysteries of the Bridge, their only hope appears to be gaining entrance to Lumal, said to hold the greatest collection of knowledge in all the kingdoms....

When Ichabod Crane sets his sights on the beautiful Katrina van Tassel (and her father's large estate), he's determined that nothing will stand in his way - not even brawny Brom Bones, his love rival. Ichabod is many things: a stern school teacher, a confident singer, an eligible bachelor. One thing he is NOT is brave, and there is far more to fear in Sleepy Hollow than Brom Bones. Especially at night... Washington Irving's atmospheric masterpiece of early New England and the fabled Headless Horseman has thrilled and inspired generations.

Hughie Erskine is in love and wants to marry, but the girl's father will not allow it, since Erskine has no money. Erskine's friend Alan Trevor is a painter, and he visits him at his studio one day to find him with a pitiable beggar—the model for his painting. Erskine only has one coin, on which he depends for transportation, but he decides he can walk for a couple of weeks and gives the beggar the coin.

In Der Ruf der Wildnis (1903) – Die Geschichte eines Hundes – erzählt Jack London die eindrucksvolle Geschichte des Hundes Buck, der aus seinem behüteten Leben in Kalifornien gerissen wird und im rauen Norden während des Klondike-Goldrausches seinen Weg in die Wildnis findet. Zwischen Zivilisation und Naturinstinkt entfaltet sich ein packender Überlebenskampf, der bis heute Leser und Hörer fesselt. Ein zeitloser Abenteuerroman über Instinkt, Freiheit, Anpassung und den unbändigen Willen zum Überleben – atmosphärisch dicht und bildgewaltig erzählt.

Ein fesselndes Abenteuer zwischen Wildnis und Zivilisation – ungekürzt gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Über das Hörbuch: Wolfsblut ( White Fang ) von Jack London ist ein weltberühmter Abenteuerroman über einen Halbwolf, der in der eisigen Wildnis Kanadas zur Zeit des Goldrauschs geboren wird. Aufgewachsen zwischen rauer Natur und menschlicher Grausamkeit, erlebt Wolfsblut Misstrauen, Ausgrenzung – und schließlich auch Vertrauen und Fürsorge.

Charles Marlow recounts his adventures into the Congo and into the brutality of British colonialism.

In Gullivers Reise nach Lilliput, dem ersten Teil von Jonathan Swifts berühmtem Roman Gullivers Reisen, verschlägt es den englischen Schiffsarzt Lemuel Gulliver nach einem Schiffbruch auf eine seltsame Insel – Lilliput. Dort wird er von winzigen Menschen gefesselt, die ihn zunächst fürchten, dann bewundern – und schließlich für politische Zwecke instrumentalisieren. Was wie ein märchenhaftes Abenteuer beginnt, entpuppt sich bald als scharfsinnige Satire auf Macht, Bürokratie und menschliche Eitelkeit.

Tout le monde connaît les aventures de Robinson Crusoé: ce classique fondateur nous entraîne à travers des voyages et péripéties surprenantes, où l’inattendu forge le caractère. Porté par la prose de Daniel Defoe, le récit déroule une suite de tableaux saisissants—dangers, labeurs, découvertes—qui captivent jeunes et adultes. Entre épreuves et émerveillements, on y suit un homme aux prises avec le monde et lui-même, affrontant l’adversité par la réflexion, l’endurance et l’ingéniosité. Redécouvrez l’original auquel on revient toujours avec plaisir.

Sie erzählen von Schuld und Schicksal, von Liebe und Verzicht, von Menschen zwischen Pflichtgefühl und innerer Sehnsucht. Theodor Storm gehört zu den bedeutendsten Erzählern und Lyrikern des 19. Jahrhunderts. In seinen Novellen und Gedichten verbindet sich feine Sprache mit psychologischer Tiefe, atmosphärischer Dichte und norddeutscher Melancholie.

The Mudfog Papers is a delightfully absurd collection of essays and sketches that captures the wit, satire, and sharp social commentary that made Dickens one of the greatest writers of his time. Set in the fictional town of Mudfog, the series of quirky and eccentric characters come to life in this hilarious exploration of small-town politics, public life, and human nature.

Im Zentrum steht erneut der legendäre Waldläufer Natty Bumppo, genannt Lederstrumpf, der diesmal an den Ufern des Lake Ontario gegen Intrigen, feindliche Überfälle und innere Zweifel kämpft. Dabei begegnet er nicht nur gefährlichen Gegnern, sondern auch der Liebe – und muss sich zwischen Herz und Pflicht entscheiden. Cooper erzählt mit epischer Weite und moralischer Tiefe, geprägt von seiner Bewunderung für die Natur und der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Schicksal der indigenen Bevölkerung Nordamerikas.