Capture, Imprisonment, and Escape

Capture, Imprisonment, and Escape, with 52 books and 11 short pieces, includes children's stories, adventure fiction, and biographical/historical works. Here you'll find everything from Prometheus Bound, The Man in the Iron Mask, Remember the Alamo, The Prisoner of Zenda, and The Count of Monte Cristo, to The Life of Napoleon, Andersonville, Uncle Remus, and the Velveteen Rabbit.

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Table of Contents

Classic Fiction and Poetry

Aeschylus

• Promethus Bound

Amelia Barr

• Remember the Alamo

George Borrow

• The Bible in Spain

James Fenimore Cooper

• The Last of the Mohicans, a narrataive of 1757

Daniel Defoe

• History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard

Charles Dickens

• American Notes for General Circulation
• Perils of Certain English Prisoners
• A Tale of Two Cities

Alexandre Dumas

• The Black Tulip
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Man in the Iron Mask (non-fiction, from Celebrated Crimes)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (fiction, from the Three Musketeers Saga)

Henry Fielding

• The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

Anthony Hope

• The Prisoner of Zenda

Hermann Melville

• Omoo
• Typee, a Romance of the South Seas

O.Henry

• The Ransom of Red Chief (story)

Edgar Allan Poe

• The Pit and the Pendulum (story)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Prometheus Unbound

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Kidnapped, being memoris of the adventures David Balfour in the year 1751
• St. Ives, being the adventures a a French prisoner in England

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Oscar Wilde

• The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Children's Fiction

Victor Appleton

• Tom Swift in Captivity or a Daring Escape by Airship

Frank Baum

• A Kidnapped Santa Claus
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Joel Chandler Harris

• Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

Howard Pyle

• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Margery Williams

• The Velveteen Rabbit

Non-Fiction

• American Prisoners of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge
• Anabasis by Xenophon
• Exodus (from the King James Bible)
• The Life of Napoleon by John Holland
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Jack Harkaway and His Bon's Escape from the Brigands of Greece by Bracebridge Henyng
• An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies together with an account of the captivity of the author and divers other Englishmen now living there and of the author's miraculous escape, 1781
• Literature and Life: Spanish Prisoners of War by William Dean Howells
• Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725-1798, volume 2e, To Paris and Prison: Under the Leads
• Mille et un jours en prison a Berlin by Docteur Henri Beland, 1919
• My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
• My Escape form Slavery by Frederick Douglass
• My Ten Years of Imprisonment by Silvio Pellico
• Napoleon Bonaparte by John Abbott
• A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia by Henry Blanc
• Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson (1635-1716)
• A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845
• Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave from Kentucky, 1864
• A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, 1772
• Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton for four years and four months a prisoner (for charity's sake) in Washington Jail, 1853
• Prisoner for Blasphemy by George William Foote (1850-1915) 1886
• Recits d'un Soldat -- une armee prisoniere, une campagne devant Paris by Amedee Achard, 1871
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by Willian and Ellen Craft
• The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, volume 4, Escape by Sea
• Turkish Prisoners in Egypt, 1971
• The Twin Hells: a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries by John Reynolds

Imprisonment/Escape as a metaphor

• Escape and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925)
• A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens