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"

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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

Empire of Shadows (Raiders of the Arcana, #1)

The General's Gold (The Turner and Mosley Files, #1)

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

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“ I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. ...more ”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“ To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. ”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

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