Red One-Jack London

Tales of Daring and Danger by G. A. Henty.G A Henty takes us on a variety of adventures in this collection: A daring rescue on rough seas, a military action against Chinese pirates, hunting down a tiger in India, and even a calamity in a camp of gold miners in California! With each new encounter, you'll thrill at the daring of our heroes in the face of imminent danger.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Story of The Treasure Seekers (version 2) by E. Nesbit.The 6 Bastable children are great at thinking up ways to restore a fallen family fortune, they soon find they had more fun and problems with the fun than finance.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Watchers by A. E. W. Mason.A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a dangerous youth who sat in the stocks, and a girl named Helen, and a gang of men watching a granite house at the edge of the sea.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories by Thomas Wallace Knox.Cunning plans are executed and daring escapes are accomplished, all in the particular style of the 19th century adventure story. Thomas Knox was an author who had travelled around the world by the time he wrote the stories in this volume, and who was no stranger to any of the geographic areas in which he set his stories.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Red One by Jack London.Famous American author Jack London brings us four more tales of adventure. "The Red One" is the story of an explorer who tangles with cannibals to discover a mysterious artifact of possible otherworldly origins, "The Hussy" and "Like Argus of Ancient Times" are both adventurous stories of quests for gold, and "The Princess" is a rousing tale of adventure on the high seas.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville."Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street. by Herman Melville."Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist." The story has been adapted twice: once in 1970, starring Paul Scofield, and again in 2001, starring Crispin Glover.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Encantadas or Enchanted Isles by Herman Melville.The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. It was collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. The Encantadas was to become the most critically successful of that collection. All of the stories are replete with symbolism reinforcing the cruelty of life on the Encantadas.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville.On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed supplies, and tries to learn from her aloof and disturbed captain, Benito Cereno, the story of how this ship came to be where she is.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches by Herman Melville.A collection of short stories by Herman Melville, including the title story The Apple-Tree Table, I and My Chimney, The Happy Failure, and several others.Featured on Moby Dick - Herman Melville.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.