Adventure (Bookshelf)

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The adventure novel is a literary genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction.

—Excerpted from Adventure novel on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

The adventure genre overlaps with a number of other genres, notably science fiction, fantasy, sea novels and westerns. The list presented here is confined to fictional adventure stories that do not fit easily into these other genres.

1 John Buchan (1875-1940)
2 Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875-1950
3 Alexander Dumas, père (1802-1870)
4 John Meade Falkner (1858-1932)
5 H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
6 Anthony Hope (1863-1933)
7 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
8 Jack London (1876-1916)
9 Baroness Orczy (1865-1947)
10 Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)
11 Robert Louis Stevenson (1860-1894)
12 Jules Verne (1828-1905)

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John Buchan (1875-1940)

Links for John Buchan: Wikipedia

Prester John
The Richard Hannay books:
- The Thirty-nine Steps
- Greenmantle
- Mr Standfast
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Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875-1950

Links for Edgar Rice Burroughs: Wikipedia, ISFDB

Plausibility, even within the limits of his bizarre plan, is not Mr. BURROUGHS' strong suit, but exciting incident, ingeniously imagined and staged, with swift movement, undoubtedly is — from a review of Son of Tarzan in Punch, April 2, 1919

Tarzan of the Apes Audio
Tarzan the Terrible Audio
Tarzan the Untamed Audio
Son of Tarzan Audio
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Audio
Jungle Tales of Tarzan Audio
Beasts of Tarzan Audio
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Alexander Dumas, père (1802-1870)

Links for Alexander Dumas: Wikipedia

The Count of Monte Cristo
D'Artagnan Series.
- The Three Musketeers Covers the years 1625-1628.
- Twenty Years After Covers the years 1648-1649.
- The Vicomte de Bragelonne First 75 chapters of the third D'Artagnan book. Covers the year 1660.
- Ten Years Later Chapters 76-140 of the third D'Artagnan book. Covers the years 1660-1661.
- Louise de la Valliere Chapters 141-208 of the third D'Artagnan book. Covers the year 1661.
- The Man in the Iron Mask Chapters 209-269 of the third D'Artagnan book. Covers the years 1661-1673.