Classics - Children's Literature - Children's Action and Adventure

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of...

• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureGulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It c...

• Author(s): Jacob Grimm | Wilhelm Grimm • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksFirst published in 1812 as Kinder- und Hausmärchen, Grimm’s Fairy Tales—inspired by German folklore—remain among the most cherish...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable pict...

• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThis nightmarish tale by H.G. Wells contains all the suspense and adventure of science fiction at its best. It begins with a quiet country inn...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureScrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas, calling it "humbug". On a Christmas eve, he refuses his nephew Fred's dinner invitation, and rude...

• Author(s): Lewis Carroll • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, mark an epoch in the history of dr...

• Author(s): Daniel Defoe • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePublished in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novels. It gained popularity among children a...

• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Voyage of the Beagle is the title given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as Journal and Remarks. It covers ...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDuring the year 1866, some ships spot a mysterious sea monster. The US government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destro...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable pict...

• Author(s): Jack London • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBuck, a St Bernard-Scotch Shepherd mix, is kidnapped, stolen from his home in Santa Clara, California, and sold to serve as a sled dog. Set i...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLord Jim is a work of Joseph Conard’s maturity as a writer, and is one of the book which established him as a master storyteller and a grea...

• Author(s): Anna Sewell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBlack Beauty translated from the original Equine, the fictional ‘autobiography’ of a talking horse, first published on 24th November 1877, is...

• Author(s): Kenneth Grahame • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Wind in the Willows is a book of linked animal tales that began as a series of bedtime stories and was published in 1908. It is beaut...

• Author(s): R.M. Ballantyne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, published in 1858 in is R.M. Ballantyne’s most famous novel. It is one of the pioneer work...

• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSet in Scotland just after the Jacobite rebellions and narrated by the teenager David Balfour, Kidnapped is an adventure book that...