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Adventure Genre

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Books in the Adventure genre:

Les Misérables (1925)

The novel takes place in France from 1815 - the end of the Napoleonic era - to the 1832 Paris uprising. According to Hugo, “The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details ... a... View More

Author(s): Victor Hugo
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The Lost Gospel (1925)

What follows on the discovery of an apocryphal gospel.

Author(s): Arthur Train
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1925)

Francis Parkman took a tour of the western United States in 1846 which included a buffalo hunt with a band of Sioux. He recorded his adventures in this, his first book, which met with critical success. He went on to write the history of the European ... View More

Author(s): Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Peter Pan and Wendy (1925)

This is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work. It tells the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian ... View More

Author(s): J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s): Mabel Lucie Attwell

The School at the Chalet (1925)

This is the first in a series of about 60 books by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970.

Author(s): Elinor Brent-Dyer
Illustrator(s): Nina K. Brisley

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1925)

The Indian Prince calling himself Captain Nemo prowls beneath the sea seeking his revenge.

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): William James Aylward

The Cruise of the Cachalot (1926)

This is the story of a cruise after sperm whales by a member of the crew. The scan is of an early reprinting. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Frank Bullen
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The Deerslayer or The First Warpath (1926)

While written last, in 1841, The Deerslayer is chronologically the first in the Leatherstocking Tales. Natty Bumpo, a European raised among American Indians, is the hero of the series. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1926)

Hans and Gretel’s father has been unable to work. If Hans wins the skating race it will help to support the household. Hans decides to ask the famous brain surgeon if he can help their father. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s): George Wharton Edwards

High Adventure (1926)

A tale of true high adventure in Georgian times.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Jeffery Farnol
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Juan and Juanita (1926)

Juan and Juanita and their dog Amigo are kidnapped by Comanches and held captive for four years until they make their escape and trek three hundred miles home.

Author(s): Frances Courtenay Baylor
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Little Girl Blue (1926)

When Winkie’s mother is reported to have died, she is expelled from her boarding school and enters the inferno of the orphanage system.

Author(s): Beth A. Retner
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

The Mountain of Jade (1926)

An adventure story set in Alaska among the Coppermine River eskimo. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

ODTAA (1926)

Highworth Foliat Ridden’s father sends him out to Santa Barbara on the Spanish Main to see what he can make of himself.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): E. G. Perman

ODTAA (1926)

Highworth Foliat Ridden’s father sends him out to Santa Barbara on the Spanish Main to see what he can make of himself.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): A. D. Rahn

The Princess and the Goblin (1926)

The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued by Curdie, a miner’s son.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Beau Geste (1927)

When a woman’s precious jewel goes missing, suspicion falls on her nephew. Beau leaves Britain to join the French Foreign Legion, followed by his brothers.

Author(s): P. C. Wren
Illustrator(s): Helen McKie

The Children of the New Forest (1927)

When the Roundheads triumph in the English civil war they burn down the Beverley family’s home. The orphaned children escape to the forest where they are taken in by Jacob Armitage, an old family servant. As in a Robinsonnade, they must learn t... View More

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): Bernhard Stafford Good

Doctor Dolittle’s Garden (1927)

Doctor Dolittle continues his researches into the lives of animals and learns the languages of insects. He is visited by a giant moth and embarks on a journey to the moon. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

Don Coyote (1927)

A western novel about a shy cowboy who saves the heroine's father’s mine.

Author(s): Whitman Chambers
Illustrator(s): Elmer Hader

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