author

George Manville Fenn

1831–1909

Best known for lively adventure stories and school tales, this Victorian writer also worked as a journalist, editor, and teacher. His books were especially popular with younger readers, blending brisk action with a strong sense of place and character.

129 Audiobooks

!Tention: A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War

by George Manville Fenn

The Peril Finders

by George Manville Fenn

The New Mistress: A Tale

by George Manville Fenn

The golden story book

by Sheila Braine, May Byron, Evelyn Everett-Green, George Manville Fenn, Lilian Gask, G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, D. H. Parry, L. L. (Lucy L.) Weedon

Mad: A Story of Dust and Ashes

by George Manville Fenn

Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp

by George Manville Fenn

Bunyip Land: A Story of Adventure in New Guinea

by George Manville Fenn

The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War

by George Manville Fenn

Burr Junior

by George Manville Fenn

Patience Wins: War in the Works

by George Manville Fenn

Mass' George: A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah

by George Manville Fenn

Young Robin Hood

by George Manville Fenn

Off to the Wilds: Being the Adventures of Two Brothers

by George Manville Fenn

Nat the Naturalist: A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas

by George Manville Fenn

Featherland: How the Birds lived at Greenlawn

by George Manville Fenn

Marcus: the Young Centurion

by George Manville Fenn

Dead Man's Land

by George Manville Fenn

Through Forest and Stream: The Quest of the Quetzal

by George Manville Fenn

The Queen's Scarlet

by George Manville Fenn

Devon Boys: A Tale of the North Shore

by George Manville Fenn

Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel

by George Manville Fenn

In the King's Name: The Cruise of the "Kestrel"

by George Manville Fenn

Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea

by George Manville Fenn

Cutlass and Cudgel

by George Manville Fenn

The Mynns' Mystery

by George Manville Fenn

A Double Knot

by George Manville Fenn

Fix Bay'nets: The Regiment in the Hills

by George Manville Fenn

A Young Hero

by George Manville Fenn

The Black Tor: A Tale of the Reign of James the First

by George Manville Fenn

Middy and Ensign

by George Manville Fenn

The King's Sons

by George Manville Fenn

The Parson O' Dumford

by George Manville Fenn

Hunting the Skipper: The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop

by George Manville Fenn

To The West

by George Manville Fenn

The Vicar's People

by George Manville Fenn

Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land

by George Manville Fenn

Fitz the Filibuster

by George Manville Fenn

Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy

by George Manville Fenn

Trapped by Malays: A Tale of Bayonet and Kris

by George Manville Fenn

The Story of Antony Grace

by George Manville Fenn

Eli's Children: The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family

by George Manville Fenn

King of the Castle

by George Manville Fenn

Old Gold: The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig

by George Manville Fenn

The Ocean Cat's Paw: The Story of a Strange Cruise

by George Manville Fenn

Glyn Severn's Schooldays

by George Manville Fenn

Cursed by a Fortune

by George Manville Fenn

By Birth a Lady

by George Manville Fenn

Seven Frozen Sailors

by George Manville Fenn

The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens

by George Manville Fenn

Begumbagh: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny

by George Manville Fenn

Cormorant Crag: A Tale of the Smuggling Days

by George Manville Fenn

The Kopje Garrison: A Story of the Boer War

by George Manville Fenn

The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps

by George Manville Fenn

The Dark House: A Knot Unravelled

by George Manville Fenn

The Bag of Diamonds

by George Manville Fenn

The Silver Canyon: A Tale of the Western Plains

by George Manville Fenn

Draw Swords! In the Horse Artillery

by George Manville Fenn

The Man with a Shadow

by George Manville Fenn

The Vast Abyss

by George Manville Fenn

Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story

by George Manville Fenn

The Weathercock: Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias

by George Manville Fenn

Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser

by George Manville Fenn

Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer

by George Manville Fenn

Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon

by George Manville Fenn

Sappers and Miners: The Flood beneath the Sea

by George Manville Fenn

The Powder Monkey

by George Manville Fenn

Three Boys; Or, The Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai

by George Manville Fenn

The Khedive's Country

by George Manville Fenn

Lady Maude's Mania

by George Manville Fenn

Fire Island

by George Manville Fenn

George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life

by George Manville Fenn

Original Penny Readings: A Series of Short Sketches

by George Manville Fenn

Stan Lynn: A Boy's Adventures in China

by George Manville Fenn

Diamond Dyke

by George Manville Fenn

The Rajah of Dah

by George Manville Fenn

Menhardoc

by George Manville Fenn

The Lost Middy: Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap

by George Manville Fenn

In Honour's Cause: A Tale of the Days of George the First

by George Manville Fenn

A Fluttered Dovecote

by George Manville Fenn

The Sapphire Cross

by George Manville Fenn

King o' the Beach: A Tropic Tale

by George Manville Fenn

Brownsmith's Boy: A Romance in a Garden

by George Manville Fenn

The Golden Magnet

by George Manville Fenn

Rob Harlow's Adventures: A Story of the Grand Chaco

by George Manville Fenn

A Life's Eclipse

by George Manville Fenn

Jungle and Stream; Or, The Adventures of Two Boys in Siam

by George Manville Fenn

Dutch the Diver; Or, A Man's Mistake

by George Manville Fenn

Brave and True

by George Manville Fenn

Commodore Junk

by George Manville Fenn

Gil the Gunner: The Youngest Officer in the East

by George Manville Fenn

First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales

by George Manville Fenn

One Maid's Mischief

by George Manville Fenn

Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season

by George Manville Fenn

Sweet Mace: A Sussex Legend of the Iron Times

by George Manville Fenn

The New Forest Spy

by George Manville Fenn

Syd Belton: The Boy Who Would Not Go to Sea

by George Manville Fenn

The Haute Noblesse: A Novel

by George Manville Fenn

The Master of the Ceremonies

by George Manville Fenn

The Rosery Folk

by George Manville Fenn

Thereby Hangs a Tale. Volume One

by George Manville Fenn

About the author

Born in Pimlico on January 3, 1831, George Manville Fenn became a remarkably prolific English novelist whose career ranged well beyond fiction. He also worked as a journalist, editor, and educational writer, and that breadth shows in books that are readable, practical, and full of detail.

Many of his novels were written for young readers, especially boys’ adventure fiction and school stories, and he became one of the familiar names of late Victorian popular literature. His stories often draw on travel, mystery, and everyday observation, giving them an energetic, grounded quality that helped them endure.

Fenn died on August 26, 1909, in Isleworth. Today he is remembered chiefly for the sheer range of his output and for the way he helped shape entertaining, accessible fiction for younger audiences in the nineteenth century.