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adventure novel

Genre of prose fiction dealing with ventures and enterprises in which hazard or risk is incurred, often unexpectedly.

US authors specializing in adventure fiction include Tom Clancy, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Wilbur Smith, and Mark Twain, while English writer C S Forester is also a successful adventure writer.



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Homer's "The Odyssey" is one of the world's oldest adventure stories and holds the same attraction for contemporary readers that it has for Hellenic antiquity some three thousand years ago as an epic chronicle of adventure recounting the trials and tribulations of Odysseus when that famed Greek war hero tried to make his way home after the fall of Troy.
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There are also short adventure stories on Jesus and other biblical characters like Elijah, Moses and David.
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Adventure stories include the sailing of a U-boat during WW II, a steamboat race, Viking navigators, and legends of mermaids.
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