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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Treasure Island |
 | | Stevenson created other novels, with greater depth and insight, but the highlight of Treasure Island is the combination of color and poetic prose that distinguishes his tale of piracy and boyhood adventure from the rest of the field of other adventure books. | | | A century later, novels such as S. Burney's The Shipwreck (1816), and Sir Walter Scott's The Pirate (1822) continued to expand upon the strong influence of Defoe's classic. | | | Two general types of sea novels were popular during the nineteenth century: the navy yarn, which places a capable officer in an adventurous situations amid realistic settings and historical events; and the desert island romance, which features shipwrecked or marooned characters confronted by treasure-seeking pirates or angry natives. |
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/treasure/about.html
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| | The SF Site: New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| | The third novel from Stover, author of Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon, was one of the most popular adventure novels in our offices in 1998. | | | The sequel to the Iron Dawn, a well-received novel of magic, intrigue and adventure from 1997 featuring a very unusual couple. | | | Two classic novels of suspense from one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/vault/bkss03.htm
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| | Review Bios |
| | Halfway through the novel, Wilson pulled the rug out from under his own novel by revealing that the whole story, its characters, and the concept of an alien continent (Darwinia) suddenly appearing in Europe's place were all nothing more than data corruption occurring within a far-future information storage system that was misremembering 20th-century Earth. | | | And then there's a second ending, a consequence of the first ending, that involves none of the novel's characters (except the planet Isis) and feels absolutely irrelevant to the story. | | | On the other hand, by cutting out all the extraneous details, he also could have written a tight tale that engagingly combined planetary adventure, character study and social speculation. |
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http://www.januarymagazine.com/SFF/bios.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Novel |
| | A major picaresque novel was Lazarillo de Tormes (1554; Lazaro of Tormes), a rambling, anonymously written Spanish work that traces the misadventures of a boy making his way in a world of savage peasants, corrupt clergy, conniving nobles, and an array of rough characters. | | | The earliest novels, called picaresque novels, were stories of adventure featuring roguish main characters, or picaros, who traveled widely, depended on their wits for survival, and took advantage of those less clever than themselves. | | | The subject matter of the early novels reflected the concerns of society in general, including the emergence of the middle class as a social group, the questioning of traditional religious and moral values, curiosity about science and philosophy, and an appetite for exploration and discovery. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761560384_9/Novel.html
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| | HSB: Caravans |
| | Michener's magnificent novel combines historical fact with a gripping adventure of romance, danger, and intrigue as it follows the story of the military man who is assigned the task of finding and returning the young woman to her distraught family. | | | The novel Caravans, was an exciting and educating book to read. | | | The book accurately portrays their lives and many of the events in the book were witnessed by Michener during his travels there making this a very interesting book for those who are interested in the nomadic lifestyle. |
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http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/hebrewstudies/312.html
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| | Richard Harding Davis and other Pre-Pulp writers |
| | There were amateur investigators galore in novels by Green, Arnold Bennett, and Rinehart, and Christie was soon to create Tommy and Tuppence (1922), not to mention The Man in the Brown Suit (1924). | | | The existence of "The Frame-Up", and other early mystery-adventure gambits in Morley's The Haunted Bookshop (1919), suggests that there was perhaps a whole series of such early adventure tales in the era, both in print and in the movies, whose milieu and approach anticipated the pulps. | | | Still, whether Morley pioneered this genre, or simply adapted it from other writers and filmmakers, the novel crystallizes the genre at an early date, and gives a reference point for comparisons with later books and films in a similar style. |
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http://members.aol.com/MG4273/rhdavis.htm
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| | Cylon Alliance - The Dune Epic |
| | Heretics of Dune is primarily an adventure tale and is far less epic than its predecessors. | | | This fierce warrior was killed in the original Dune novel and cloned through a mystic process by those who sought to control Paul by promising to return his loved ones who had died in exchange for royal favors. | | | Dune's 5th book, Heretics of Dune, written in 1984, advanced another 1500 years after the last novel to describe Sheanna, a remarkable young woman who could control the monster Gods of Arrakis, the giant sandworms. |
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http://www.cylon.org/classic/dune-intro-01.html
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| | ShinyGun Solaris, the Novel. |
| | Solaris is the very best of Lem's adventure novels, and among his most brilliant and genuinely terrifying thought experiments. | | | The prose throughout the novel is vibrant, rich and tantalizing, drenched by the twin suns that Solaris orbits, but even more so in the passages about the couple. | | | Reading this novel is often very much like reading a chapter out of a history of science book of the future. |
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http://www.shinygun.com/print.php?id=80
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| | The Library |
| | Written as a contemporary bildungsroman, and picaresque adventure chronicle, it is the coming-of-age novel of the larky Augie March. | | | The mode of the novel is very much that of the Gogolian farce, “The Bridegroom,” with its classic misogynous tale of the flight of the bridegroom from entrapment in marriage. | | | Dangling Man (1944), Bellow’s first novel, is written in the personal voice of a protagonist whose principal domain is his own sensibility, and whose principal audience is himself. |
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http://saulbellow.byu.edu/NavigationBar/TheLibrary.html
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Online Writing: Fiction: Genres: Fantasy: Novels |
| | Inferno- A young shaman on another planet is tempted to unleash dark forces to defend a woman from evil magicians. | | | Angel Queen - The first three chapters of an epic fantasy novel set in the middle ages, available online. | | | Peacekeeper Headquarter - A novel with a reference guide, possible short stories, and some links that GMs would be interested in. |
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http://dmoz.org/Arts/Online_Writing/Fiction/Genres/Fantasy/Novels
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| | Judo Book Review - Musashi |
| | But basically the novel will be enjoyed as a dashing tale of swashbuckling adventure and a subdued story of love, Japanese style. | | | Miyamoto Musashi was an actual historical person, but through Yoshikawa's novel he and the other main characters of the book have become part of Japan's living folklore. | | | The Hosokawas bring us back to Shogun, because it was the older Hosokawa, Tadaoki, who figures quite unjustifiably as one of the main villains of that novel, and it was Tadaoki's exemplary Christian wife, Gracia, who is pictured without a shred of plausibility as Blackthorne's great love, Mariko. |
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http://www.khadaji.addr.com/brmusashi.shtml
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| | Tangled Web UK Review - Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson August 1999 |
| | The line beneath the title on the cover of DARWINIA reads: "A novel of a very different twentieth century." While this is most certainly the case, DARWINIA is not exactly an alternate history story; at least, not of the type one has come to expect from that thriving sub-genre. | | | And as a thoughtful twist of a tale of adventure and romance, it succeeds admirably. | | | He learns that he is not just a man lost in a strange land, but a pawn in a vast struggle beyond his understanding. |
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http://www.twbooks.co.uk/reviews/jrussell/darwiniapbkjr.html
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| | Alexander: The Ends of the Earth : A Novel (Alexander) |
| | This book, a historical fiction and novel about Alexandros is one of the best ever produced (it is a trilogy - a similar work to the one initially perpetuated by Mary Renault). | | | Alexander: The Ends of the Earth : A Novel (Alexander) Review: The third and final chapter of Manfredi's `Alexander' series concludes the epic, and is as beautifully narrated as the first to volumes. | | | This book is definitely darker than the others, but it still is a fantastic conclusion to an adventure born in the misty mountains of Macedon. |
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http://www.textkit.com/0_0743434382.html
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| | Reviews of the Group Novels |
| | This novel could be read for enjoyment because it puts a twist on the original castaway dealing with romance, adventure, and comedy, all at the same time. | | | The novel is a typical castaway story, with a touch of modern life, which helps throw the survivors into confusion upon survival. | | | The novel is intriguing, with a mix romance and survival, which keeps the reader very interested. |
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http://www.washjeff.edu/users/ltroost/castaways/Reviews.html
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| | The Underview and 2001: Andre Tarkovsky's Solaris |
| | Tarkovsky read Clarke's novel in early 1971 and set out consciously to explore the same ultimate cosmic adventure - humankind facing an infinite universe populated with far more ancient entities - but with the focus much more on the response of an individual carrying with him the not- untypical baggage of domestic terrestrial experience. | | | In Solaris, we see man as a distinctly un-assisted earth- bound creature confronted by forces outside his understanding, yet inescapably coming to the realisation that those forces are nothing other than his own fears and deeply- hidden yearnings. | | | The girl that led Kris to Gibarian's body is what Gibarian has unwittingly brought with him to Solaris, but we are given no clue as to why she preys so unbearably on his conscience that he is unable to live with her presence. |
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http://www.underview.com/2001/solaris.html
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| | RPG Now: Shadowspawn's Guide to Sanctuary |
| | It is a place appropriately nicknamed "Thieves' World." The fourteen anthologies of the Thieves' World series and the Sanctuary novel by Lynn Abbey have detailed this dark and dangerous city and the world in which it exists. | | | A slew of adventure seeds to kickstart your own adventures. | | | With the Thieves' World Gazetteer, Sanctuary is just the beginning of a larger world of adventure! |
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http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=5849&SRC=GreenRonin
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| | JacquieD.com {Whirlwind Affair} |
| | D'Alessandro adds another engaging, well-wrought adventure to her Regency-era Jamison family saga (Whirlwind Wedding, etc.)...D'Alessandro's prose and plotting is surefooted. | | | WHIRLWIND AFFAIR is an exhilarating historical romance starring two delightful lead characters. | | | The story line is typical of the Anglo-oceanic romance, but freshens that theme through several character revealing traits to include the immediate identity of the hit man and the twist that the male aristocrat seeks marriage and not to beget an heir. |
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http://www.jacquied.com/WhirlwindAffairExcerpt.html
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| | Joyce - Works: Ulysses |
| | Joyce wanted Ulysses to be an “epic” and an “adventure” as well as serving as an “encyclopedia.” In order to do this, he wove his text upon a vast loom of hidden “correspondences,” an organizing network of internal interconnections and external allusions. | | | Ulysses is never cruel, mean-spirited, or even sardonic: paradoxically, Joyce brings out the nobility of his characters through their very failure to measure up to heroic proportions. | | | As suggested by its very title, Ulysses relates to Homer’s great epic The Odyssey, the tale of Odysseus (known to the Romans as Ulysses) and his travels after the Trojan War. |
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http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/joyce_works_ulysses.html
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| | ENGL1146 Introduction |
| | Originally in verse, these elegant, highly conventional tales of chivalric adventure, celebrated courtly love in the framework of a knight's quest for his lady's favour (modern "romance novels" are similarly conventional and indeed have similar themes). | | | Histories: In the seventeenth century the word "novel" was frequently applied to romances of illicit love--one of the most original of which was written by a woman playwright and poet, Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, or the History of a Royal Slave (1688). | | | The Novella: The English term novel is derived from the Italian novella, literally meaning "a little new thing"; the term was used to describe brief prose tales, often quite scandalous. |
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http://www.unb.ca/web/extend/wss/1146demo/introduction.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) |
| | The novel portion of the book is in the nature of an adventure story, along the theme of man vs. nature. | | | Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. | | | This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discussed the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192833855
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| | Shogun |
| | In a lot of ways, Shogun does remind me of fantasy - the epic scope, the adventure and swashbuckling, the fish-out-of-water/ ordinary-joe that becomes important in a political struggle - but for reasons I can't explain it never felt like a fantasy novel. | | | Whatever the reason, this reads as both an epic tale and a historical novel that looks at middle-ages japan and the beginning of western influences on their culture, especially the catholic church. | | | I was briefly scared by the prospect that this book might turn out to be nothing more than a really long romance novel, but it is thankfully much more. |
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http://facstaff.uww.edu/herriotj/books/shogun.html
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| | Prof Patt Reading List |
| | This popular novel brings a love story, a satire, and a little of the Christian bible together into the mix. | | | Time and character of a past era are captured in the dialogue of this delightful novel. | | | This is a psychological novel with historical and philosophical underpinnings. |
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http://gvnet.com/profpatt/bookReviews.htm
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| | Scifilm -- Reviews, MILLENNIUM (1989) |
| | The reason I ended up reading the novel was that I picked up a copy of the novel at a library book sale for 25 cents. | | | MILLENNIUM is based on his 1977 short story "Air Raid," which he later expanded into a novel Millennium, published in 1983. | | | The first time I tried to watch MILLENNIUM, it really bored the hell out of me. I saw it in the TV listings described as a sci-fi adventure about time travelers and thought it sounded pretty intriguing, enough that I tuned in anyway. |
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http://www.scifilm.org/reviews/millennium.html
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| | Star Wars Origins - Frank Herbert's Dune |
| | In 1926 Lawrence recorded his adventures in the autobiographical novel The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which was immediately lauded as the greatest adventure story ever told. | | | Frank Herbert was uneasy because the point of his novel was to explore the dangers of mistaking a man for a god, and the film implied that Paul was a god. | | | Dune was strongly influenced by Lawrence: Paul is the messianic man of two tribes leading the Jihad, the Beduins are the Fremen, the Harkonnens are the Turks, the Sardaukar are German Troops, and the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV represents both the German government and the British crown. |
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http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/dune.html
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| | Random House Books Light by M. John Harrison |
| | This is not a novel for the faint of heart or the easily distracted.” –Eric M., Wichita, KS Light is a novel [with] intrigue, adventure and surprises strong enough to sustain the most demanding reader. | | | “Light is a literary singularity: at one and the same time a grim, gaudy space opera that respects the physics, and a contemporary novel that unflinchingly revisits the choices that warp a life. | | | JOHN HARRISON is the award-winning author of eight previous novels and four collections of short stories. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/display.pperl?isbn=9780553382952
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| | Book reviews |
| | There is adventure in the novel but the true story is a romance. | | | He is the handsome man of the romance novels, the intelligent solver of the mystery story, and the action hero of popular fiction. | | | The novel is written by an author who understands how to construct a good tale. |
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http://www.paulbunyan.net/users/gsirvio/reviews.html
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| | Prof Patt Reading List |
| | This popular novel brings a love story, a satire, and a little of the Christian bible together into the mix. | | | Time and character of a past era are captured in the dialogue of this delightful novel. | | | This is a psychological novel with historical and philosophical underpinnings. |
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http://gvnet.com/profpatt/bookReviews.htm
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | * * Return to Doomstar ( Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20125-8, Oct ’85 [Sep ’85], $2.95, 295pp, pb) [ Doomstar ] Sf adventure novel featuring the Light Orbit Space Theater and hitchhikers the catwoman Napoleon and 9’ tall Harlan. | | | * * Pirate Prince ( Tor 0-812-54572-9, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $2.95, 254pp, pb) [ Skyrider ] Sf adventure novel, the fourth volume in the “Skyrider” series featuring a female hotshot space pilot. | | | * * Worst Nightmare ( Dell 0-440-20857-2, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $4.50, 279pp, pb) [ Book of the Undead ] Horror novel of a titanic confrontation between good and evil, third “Book of the Undead”. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/b335.html
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| | John Shirley Book Reviews |
| | A philosophical adventure story, "Gurdjieff" is a refreshingly accessible introduction to the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, a man whose life's mission was to hasten mankind's awakening. | | | The cover of the 1987 Questar edition of John Shirley's cult classic "Eclipse" bills it as "the ultimate cyberpunk saga." This may be no mere exaggeration. | | | The brilliance and terror behind this straight-forward tale is Shirley's refreshing refusal to cling to genre conceits. |
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http://www.mactonnies.com/johnshirley.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 |
| | Why he, or anyone associated with that shameful production, was allowed anywhere near this story staggers me. "Battlefield Earth," the novel, is a solid adventure story that deserved far better cinematic treatment. | | | His poor wife took the rap for him, and he wrote novels in a secret location. | | | Nevertheless, I will still say that "Battlefield Earth" is an entertaining book -- it's far from the "greatest science fiction saga ever written," and it really bogs down in the middle, but it's an enjoyable read nonetheless. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0884046818?v=glance
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