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Adventure Genre

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Books in the Adventure genre:

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)

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Robinson goes back to the island. This is the third edition. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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Robinson Crusoe (1719)

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The first of the desert island castaway adventures. This is the fourth edition. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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Ivanhoe (1820)

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A tale of the Saxons and the Normans in the days of Richard the Lion Heart. Read for free online at HathiTrust. Or read for free online by volume: Volume 1 at Internet Archive Volume 2 at HathiTrust Volume 3 at Internet Archive ... View More

Author(s): Sir Walter Scott
Illustrator(s): None

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Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836)

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Young Jack Easy has assimilated his father's theory of the equality of man, but has yet to reconcile it with things as they are, so is sent to sea to learn a little discipline. This combination of adventure story, satire and humor was the best-writte... View More

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): None

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Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Round the Globe (1840)

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Shortly after qualifying as a physician, the author signed on to a three year's voyage on a whaler header for the South Sea fishery. This two-volume work is considered one of the most accurate descriptions of industry. There are extensive description... View More

Author(s): Frederick Debell Bennett
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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Barnaby Rudge (1841)

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An historical novel about the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780. Barnaby’s raven Grip inspired Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven. Read online at archive.org: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne
George Cattermole

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Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1841)

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This is a robinsonnade written by a captain in the British navy. A family going to settle in Australia is wrecked on a desert island and the old seaman, Ready, helps them survive. Read online at Internet Archive: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.... View More

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): Allen Robert Branston

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The Battle of Life (1846)

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A story of love and self sacrifice set in a rural village. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
John Leech
Daniel Maclise
Clarkson Stanfield

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Rebecca and Rowena (1850)

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Thackeray imagines what comes after the wedding of Ivanhoe and Rowena.

Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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Moby Dick or The Whale (1851)

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Moby Dick or The Whale has a good claim to the title of The Great American Novel. Based on the story of the Essex, whaler, destroyed by a whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, Melville draws on his own experiences as a seaman. Read online at Hathitrus... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): None

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The Coral Island (1858)

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Three young men are shipwrecked on a desert island in the south Pacific. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): R. M. Ballantyne
Illustrator(s): R. M. Ballantyne

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The Story of a Bad Boy (1870)

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A story of the author’s youth in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The highlights are the snowball battle on Slater’s hill and the celebration of the 4th of July. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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The Favorite Holiday Book for Boys (1872)

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An anthology. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane
Et al

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The Little Lame Prince (1874)

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A young prince whose legs are paralyzed due to a childhood trauma is given a magical traveling cloak by his fairy godmother; he uses this cloak to go on various adventures and develops great wisdom and empathy in the process. Read the 1965 edition on... View More

Author(s): Dinah Maria Mulock
Illustrator(s): John McLaren Ralston

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

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In the 1840s a mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid, in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): True W. Williams

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A Great Emergency (1877)

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This is a collection of short stories.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s): E. B. Barry

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Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar (1877)

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Unusual for Verne this is a straightforward adventure novel. Unfortunately it is, at least in the English translation, very poorly written.

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Jules-Descartes Férat

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A Tramp Abroad (1880)

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The story of a walking tour of Germany and Italy, enlivened and augmented by numerous digressions and discursions. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Walter Francis Brown
Benjamin Henry Day
W. W. Denslow
True W. Williams
Et al

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Toby Tyler (1881)

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Toby runs away to join the circus. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): James Otis
Illustrator(s): William Allen Rogers

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Bevis: The Story of a Boy (1882)

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Two English boys camp out on an island in a pond. This first edition was also published in green cloth. Read online at archive.org: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.... View More

Author(s): Richard Jefferies
Illustrator(s): None

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