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The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.It was serialized in All-Story Weekly issues of 5 and 12 June 1915, and in Blackwood's Magazine (credited to "H. de V.") between July and September 1915, before being published in book form in October of that year.
Text. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at Wikisource. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at Oxford University. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.
Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys [1]) is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of " buccaneers and buried gold ". It is considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (also simply known as Tom Sawyer) is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. [2]
Romanzo di avventura. Il romanzo di avventura è un genere letterario che nasce nel XVIII secolo e narra di viaggi in terre lontane e quindi celebra il coraggio e l'ingegno umano. L'incontro fra diverse culture offre uno spunto per criticare la società in cui l'autore vive, ma anche per esaltarne i valori.
The picaresque novel ( Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for ' rogue ' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but "appealing hero", usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. [1] Picaresque novels typically adopt the form of "an episodic prose narrative " [2] with a ...
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £1.9 million in 2019) set by his friends at the ...
