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Adventure story   /ædvˈɛntʃər stˈɔri/   Listen
Adventure story

noun
1.
A story of an adventure.  Synonym: heroic tale.





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"Adventure story" Quotes from Famous Books



... an impatient boy who had been listening to a mild adventure story considered suitable to his years, "that I don't take any interest in the story until the decks are dripping with gore?" Here we have no opportunity of deciding whether or not the actual description demanded would be more alarming than the ...
— The Art of the Story-Teller • Marie L. Shedlock
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... does astronomy fail to play at least a supporting role. That is The Sky Pirate (1909), which is an adventure story laid in the year 1936. Its plot revolves around an abduction for ransom in a period which is visualized as rampant with piracy because of the general adoption of air transportation. As usual, fact has outmoded prophecy, ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putnam Serviss
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... spoil some of them; but in The Spy he puts his prejudices under restraint, tells his tale in an impersonal way, dealing honestly with both Whigs and Tories, and so produces a work having the double interest of a good adventure story and a fair picture of one of the heroic ages ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long
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