Adventure

Adventure fiction is a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, forms the main storyline. Adventure novels and short stories were popular subjects for American pulp magazines, which dominated American popular fiction between the Progressive Era and the 1950s. Adventure fiction often overlaps with other genres, notably war novels, crime novels, sea stories, Robinsonades, spy stories (as in the works of John Buchan, Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming), science fiction, fantasy, (Robert E. Howard and J.R.R. Tolkien both combined the secondary wo ...more

New Releases Tagged "Adventure"

A Botanist's Guide to Tradition and Treachery (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #5)

The League of Dangerous Young Ladies (Deluxe Edition)

The Hardest, Longest Race: Henry Ford and the Cross-Country Contest That Changed America

The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris

Chase the Light (National Parks Summers)

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

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Quotes Tagged “Adventure”

“ The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul. ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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