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Adventure Genre
Genre description for the 'Adventure' Genre. Full text description would go here to introduce the genre before showing a complete list of all the books in that genre.
Books in the Adventure genre:
A Horse’s Tale (1907)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock
My Life as an Indian (1907)
Author(s):
James Willard Schultz
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Nimrod’s Wife (1907)
Author(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Walter King Stone
Partners of Providence (1907)
Author(s):
Charles D. Stewart
Illustrator(s):
Charles Jay Taylor
The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions (1907)
Author(s):
Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Tales of Troy and Greece (1907)
A retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Homer
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1907)
Author(s):
Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrator(s):
Harold Heartt
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908)
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
None
The Ruby of Kishmoor (1908)
Jonathan Rugg is set on a quest to recover the famous gem, looted by a pirate from an eastern queen. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
The Biography of a Silver Fox (1909)
The life story of a silver fox and the humans who met him. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Thompson Seton
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (1909)
A satirical look at the afterlife. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Albert Levering
Gulliver’s Travels (1909)
Author(s):
Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Red Book of Heroes (1909)
Biographies of people who were truly in earnest. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
A. Wallis Mills
Robinson Crusoe (1909)
The first of the desert island castaway adventures. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Children’s Book: A Collection of the Best and Most Famous Stories and Poems in the English Language (1910)
Ranging from fables to fairy tales to ballads to myth, this anthology has stood the test of time. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Maxfield Parrish
Et al
Feats on the Fjord and Merdhin (1910)
Two novels of adventure: the first set in Norway; the second dealing with King Canute. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Harriet Martineau
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Last of the Mohicans (1910)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Lost Endeavour (1910)
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Stephen Reid
Martin Hyde the Duke’s Messenger (1910)
Martin Hyde gets caught up in the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
T. C. Dugdale
Prester John (1910)
A young Scot goes out to South Africa where he becomes caught up in a native rebellion. This is a later American edition.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
Henry C. Pitz