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

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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J.M. Barrie
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

K.  Ritz
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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