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The Big Book of Adventure Stories

By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Eric Michael Summerer, Jonathan Yen
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Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by Jack London, O. Henry, H. Rider Haggard, Alastair MacLean, Talbot Mundy, Cornell Woolrich, and many others, this wide-reaching and fascinating volume contains some of the best characters from the most thrilling adventure tales, including The Cisco Kid; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Bulldog Drummond; Tarzan; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Conan the Barbarian; Hopalong Cassidy; King Kong; Zorro; and The Spider. Divided into sections that embody the greatest themes of the genre - Sword & Sorcery, Megalomania Rules, Man vs. Nature, Island Paradise, Sand and Sun, Something Feels Funny, Go West Young Man, Future Shock, I Spy, Yellow Peril, In Darkest Africa - it is destined to be the greatest collection of adventure stories ever compiled.

Featuring: lawless open seas, ferocious army ants, deadeyed gunmen, exotic desert islands, and feverish jungle adventures.

Including: the story that introduced The Cisco Kid and the complete novel of Tarzan the Terrible.

©2011 Otto Penzler (introduction and compilation); Foreword copyright 2011 by Splendide Mendax, Inc. (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Action & Adventure Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Sea Adventures Adventure Royalty
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The mix of stories was good, but the narrator was completely the wrong person for many of them, with poor renditions of British accents and a lot of mispronounciations. Compare, for instance, his reading of a 'Bulldog Drummond' story compared with that of Roy McMillan on another Audible book, which can be sampled. If this is representative of the 'Big Book...' series I will not be buying another.

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I saw only one other review of one star because of the layout But this is really excellent It does everything that it promises Superb stories from a golden age. It is well performed. No there are no chapter headings but the app allows for Ray voice notes I am really glad I bought this book

Superb worth every penny

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