Cecil Forester: Midshipman Hornblower
Young Horatio Hornblower was very unlucky. A midshipman with no experience ended up in a society of salty sea wolves. At seventeen, the young officer was too serious, but timid by nature and did not easily get along with people. A monstrous despotism reigned on the ship, immediately reminding Hornblower of the classic images of degenerate Roman emperors. More and more often the young man began to think about death, and even more often about escape. He had no idea what an extraordinary fate the ocean was preparing for him.
Bogdan Sushinsky: Captain Scott's Pole
Action novel famous writer Bohdan Sushinsky is dedicated to the majestic and tragic event in the history of civilization - the campaign in 1911-1912. English polar explorer Captain Robert Scott South Pole Earth. The ascent to the polar summit of the planet turned into not only a disastrous struggle with natural conditions Antarctica, but also in no less destructive competition for the laurels of the discoverer.
Henry Haggard: King Solomon's Mines. The Adventures of Allan Quartermain. Benita
The mysterious treasures of King Solomon... They say these diamonds are cursed and bring only misfortune. Many searched for them, but no one came back - like Sir Henry's brother, who disappeared without a trace in an unknown direction. In search of him and in the hope of getting rich, three desperate daredevils set off to the Kukuana Country, lost in the heart of Africa...
Oleg Ryaskov: Notes of the forwarder of the Secret Chancellery. Adventures of a Russian princess in the New World
Events take place after the death of Peter the Great. Naval officer Semyon Plakhov, accused of murdering a fiscal official, unexpectedly gets a chance to escape if he fulfills one mysterious order. Together with the forwarder of the secret chancellery Ivan Samoilov, the magician Van Hoover, the young poisoner Fekla and the pupil Liza, Plakhov goes to London and the New World.
Curwood, Kipling, Rousselet: Grizzly
In the north of Canada, in a harsh and deserted region, the orphaned bear cub Muskwa meets the huge wounded bear Tyra. They are waiting incredible adventures and discoveries, but touching friendship will help overcome all dangers! And the collection also included adventure stories and stories by various authors: “Wolf Hunters” (J. Curwood), “The Adventures of the Young Rajah” (W. Kingston), “The Snake Charmer” (Rousselet), “Coral Island” (Ballantyne), “ Little Toomai” (Kipling).
James Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans, or a Narrative of 1757
The novel tells the story of the struggle and death of the Indians of North America under the onslaught of modern civilization. The main character of the novel is the hunter and tracker Natty Bumppo. Stern and fair, brave and noble, Bumpo is one of Cooper's most beloved heroes.
Robert Stilmark: Heir from Calcutta
The events of the novel develop rapidly. Courageous and noble heroes enter into a daring battle with vile villains, seductive women, thrown by fate into a stormy whirlpool of events, overcome tragic circumstances. Readers can expect earthquakes and storms, fights with predators and deadly poisons...
Wilbur Smith: Those in Danger
Oil. They kill and die for it. The daughter of Hazel Bannock, the woman who runs the giant oil corporation. The criminals demand that a controlling stake be transferred to them as a ransom. Is there any confidence that, having received what they want, the bandits will release the girl? The police are unable to help. Intelligence services too. And then Hazel decides to seek help from a very dangerous people. Officially, they are employees of a security company, but in reality they are real “soldiers of fortune.”
Reed Mine: White Chief
Myne Reid's books attracted and continue to attract people with their romance. This is the romance of the struggle for a just cause, the romance of feat in the name of a high idea, the romance of courageous overcoming of obstacles that people and nature put in the way brave hero. The style of narration is also romantic, rich in colorful descriptions, intense dialogues...
Bogdan Sushinsky: Rommel's Gold
By order of Field Marshal Rommel, in 1943, the Nazis removed treasures from Africa, but they failed to deliver them to their intended destination, and the convoy was forced to scuttle them off the coast of Corsica. The novel takes place in the post-war years, when a real “gold rush” began around the disappeared treasures. The search operation involves saboteurs - the former “Fuhrer's agent on special assignments” Otto Skorzeny and the leader of the Italian combat swimmers Valerio Borghese.
Mikhail Churkin: Through the taiga to the ocean
On April 4, 1918, two Japanese employees of a commercial company were killed in Vladivostok. The next day, without waiting for the case to be investigated, the Japanese landed troops in the city under the pretext of protecting Japanese citizens. Many years of foreign intervention began in Far East. Japan cherished the hope of capturing all of Primorye and Eastern Siberia all the way to Lake Baikal. But she stood in the way of the interventionists Far Eastern Republic and its People's Revolutionary Army.
James Curwood: Ramblers of the North
The best adventure novels of the famous American naturalist writer and traveler James Oliver Curwood are dedicated to animals and the harsh nature of Northern Canada and Alaska, which the author loved very much. Under the cover of thisbookscollected five amazing stories about incredible friendship, loyalty and courage: “Ramblers of the North“, “Kazan”, “Son of Kazan”, “Golden Loop”, “Valley of Silent Ghosts”.
Emilio Salgari: Black Corsair. Treasure of the Blue Mountains
The vile Spaniards killed the brave brothers of the Black Corsair, and now only revenge will bring him peace. To defeat a powerful enemy, he must team up with the legendary pirates of the Caribbean - Francois Olonnet and Henry Morgan himself. The shipwrecked captain Fernando de Belgrano miraculously survived. Once captured, he managed to win their trust and become the leader of the tribe. Years later, he sent his children a letter in which he pointed out the path to the treasure...
Paul Sussman: The Vanished Oasis
The sister of the famous mountaineer Freya Hännen is a famous Egyptologist and former agent intelligence services Alex is dead. The police have no reason to consider the incident a murder. But the Bedouin, who hands over a bag with mysterious maps and films to Freya, who has arrived in Egypt, transparently hints: her sister was killed. And danger threatens anyone who takes possession of these materials. At first, Freya simply brushes off his words, but soon realizes: he was not lying.
Robert Stevenson: Kidnapped. Catriona
The duology “Kidnapped” and “Catriona” tells the story of extraordinary adventures young Scottish nobleman David Balfour. Battles on land and sea, bloody battles and chases, conspiracies and rebellions, love adventures described consummate master intrigues by Robert Louis Stevenson will not leave the reader indifferent... Reproduced in the publication full set from 80 illustrations by Louis Reed and William Hole.
Henri Charrière: The Moth
AuthorIn this story, Henri Charrière, nicknamed the Moth (Papillon), at twenty-five years old, was accused of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. But then the most fantastic of his adventures began. At hard labor in French Guiana, he went through incredible trials, more than once coming close to death. The survival instinct and an indomitable desire for freedom helped him eventually be released.
Arthur Doyle: The exploits of Brigadier Gerard. The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
The cavalry officer Gerard is an adventurer and adventurer, of which there were indeed many in the army of Emperor Napoleon, which marched victoriously across Europe. He is frivolous, but noble, loves women, and is equally ready to risk his life for the sake of France, for the sake of the next lady of his heart - or just for the sake of thrills. Together with this charming Frenchman, the reader will experience many dizzying adventures - sometimes funny, and sometimes deadly...
Gilles Weber: Fanfan-Tulip
The novel introduces fascinating world love affairs and the military adventures of the protagonist during the time of Louis XV. Fanfan-Tulip is a brave and resourceful Frenchman, defeats the enemies of France, saves his beloved girl and finds his brother.
Henry Haggard: Sacred Flower. Court of the Pharaohs
Together with his partner, the famous adventurer Allan Quartersine goes to the heart of Africa in search of a unique orchid. But the hunt for an orchid is full of dangers - in the native tribe it is considered a Sacred Flower. To get it, you will have to face a fierce faith that only a white man can defeat. One day, in a museum, John Smith saw a statue of the ancient Egyptian queen Ma-Mi. Captivated by her image, he vowed to find the tomb of the one he loved...
Vakhtang Ananyan: Prisoners of the Barsov Gorge
The story tells about schoolchildren who got into trouble in the Caucasus mountains. Finding themselves captive to the elements, they bravely endure the trials. Overcome difficulties, and sometimes mortal danger, they are helped by friendship, mutual support and fortitude.
Robert Stevenson: The Adventures of Prince Florizel
Stevenson can be called one of the outstanding masters of adventure and genres. His works are full of all kinds of conspiracies, duels, kidnappings, murders, sensational revelations, secrets and other adventurous events. These are the two famous novelistic cycles of the classic English prose Stevenson - “The Suicide Club” and “Raja's Diamond”, united by the eccentric figure of Prince Florizel of Bohemia.
Wilbur Smith: Blue Horizon
Young Courtney sets out to conquer a rebellious continent. But, at first sight, falling in love with a captive of Dutch sailors, he risks his life for the sake of the girl’s freedom. Now Jim is alone against the whole continent, which is fraught with a lot of dangers. Now he and his beloved face seemingly inevitable death. But Jim Courtney is not afraid of danger. He is ready for a lot, and if he has to, he will risk his own life!
Albert Piñol: Pandora in the Congo
London, 1914. Marcus Harvey is accused of murdering two English aristocrats, with whom he went in search of gold and diamonds in the heart of Sub-Saharan Africa, in the Congo. Aspiring writer Thomas Thomson, commissioned by Harvey's lawyer, is working on a book designed to restore the truth and save the alleged murderer from the gallows. But the book sets out not only the history of the expedition, which cost the lives of many people, but also completely incredible story love.
Olga Kryuchkova: Captain of the Marauders
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ADVENTURE NOVEL . The only poetic type that developed primarily on European soil, the novel - whatever stands at its center - love, a mystical idea or matters of honor - appears in the first centuries of our era (Hellenistic romance, for example, Iamblichus Babylonian stories, Chariton of Aphrodisias Highray and Collirhoy, famous Latin novel by Apuleius Golden donkey) and strengthened in the Middle Ages, mainly in the form of an adventure novel - a novel of adventure. Rooted in folk-oral arts, all early examples of the adventure novel appear to us in inseparable fusions with this latter. The Hellenistic novel is intertwined on all sides with oriental fairy tales and legends of the love-adventurous type, providing it not only with inexhaustible plot material, but also suggesting its basic scheme; chivalric novels (the Breton cycle or the novels of the Round Table and the Carolingian cycle) grow entirely on the heroic epic of the Celts and Franks and exist for a long time exclusively in the oral tradition. The “novels” of early medieval poets (the so-called Grail cycle, formed by the works of poets XII and beginning of XIII V. - Robert de Borron Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin and Parsifal; Walter Mapa Holy Grail, Chrétien to Troyes, Perceval or the Tale of the Grail, Wolfram von Eschenbach Parzival- this, according to later researchers, is “the song of songs of chivalry”, containing about 25,000 verses; processing of the legend of Tristan and Isolde and some. etc.). All these works can be called novels in the proper sense of the word just as little as the epic poems of Ariosto, Boiardo, Tasso. However, they perfectly developed the apparatus of adventure, which was completely adopted by the later adventure novel. Somewhat closer to the novels themselves are adaptations of the Trojan War (Benoit de Sept Mop Roman de Troi) and Alexander the Great (arrangement by Lambert le Court and Alexandre de l'ernay, lightened by the basis of numerous European Alexandrias), and a story carried through a wide variety of trials, but unchanging and, in the end, triumphing over all obstacles of love - the motive of the famous inserted short story of Apuleius Cupid and Psyche(Flos and Blancheflos, Aucassin and Nicoletta, etc.).
As an independent, isolated genre, the novel made its way into literature only towards the end of the Middle Ages.
The author of the first such novel is the Portuguese knight Vasco de Lobeira, who wrote his famous Amadis of Gaul, which has not survived in the original (the closest Spanish translation is known early XVI c.), but which determined all subsequent novels about knights errant (Chevaliers errants). All of these novels, which found particularly favorable soil for their development in Spain and from there spread throughout Europe, use the novels, which find such beneficial use in later novel travel (see) the motive of changing places, wanderings of one’s hero. The time of the Amadis coincides with the period of decline of knightly culture, alive only in the imagination of the authors of knightly novels, attracting thousands of sympathetic readers. The era of the growth of cities, their accumulation of wealth, and the emergence of bourgeois society required more realistically minded heroes. Romances of chivalry heroize the memory of the passing feudal life, representatives of the new class hit it on the heels with the stick blows of satire.
In place of the heroic epic, the basis of newly emerging works is the epic about animals. The life of animals is depicted as an exact replica of feudal relations. The hero of novels of this kind (Isengrim, Nivardus from Rent, “The Adventures of Renard”, Pierre before Saint-Cloud, “Reynard”, Willema, etc.), cunning, inexhaustible in the tricks that accompany complete success, a triumphant realist - the Fox is an exact prototype of the future Spanish literary rogues - picaro. In the homeland of chivalric romances, Spain, the realistic adventure novel, which was the natural antithesis of the sublime symbolism of the Amadis, flourishes with the greatest brilliance. The beginning of the Spanish picaresque novel (Novella picaresca or Schelmenroman) was laid in 1553 by a small book by an unknown author, “The Life of Lazarillo of Brakes and His Successes and Failures” (Russian translation by I. Glivenka, 1897), which became the most read book in Spain after Don Quixote , With huge success in dozens of translations, distributed throughout Europe (one of English translations Lasarillo survived, for example, 20 editions) and gave rise to a number of imitations in Spain itself (the most remarkable are the novels of Aleman Gusman de Alfarache in 1599, Leon, La picara Justina, the story of a rogue woman, 1605, Espinel - “The Life and Adventures of Obregón "1618, Quevedo - "The History and Life of the Great Rogue Paul of Segovia" 1627, etc.); in England at the end of the 16th century. (a number of stories from the everyday life of conycatchers, rabbit catchers - savvy people, Green: “The Life of Jack Pilton”, “Ours”, etc.); in Germany (combining Spanish influence with the traditions of folk collections like the famous Till Eulenspiegel, Grimmelshausen’s soldier’s novel Simplicissimus, 1669 - this “Faust thirty years war", which in turn caused infinite number imitations), in France XVII V. (Sorel, La vraye histoire comique de Francion, Scarron, Roman comique, etc.). In France, from the beginning of the 18th century. estilo picaresco flashed with new strength in the works of Lesage (the novels “The Lame Devil” and especially the famous “Gilles Blas”), who assimilated the Spanish literary tradition to such an extent that he is still accused of plagiarism. “Gilles Blas”, in turn, spread a number of imitations into neighboring literatures (for example, in Russian literature, where in the 18th century “Gilles Blas” went through 8 editions and was one of the favorite books, novels by M. Chulkov Mockingbird, Pretty Cook, I. Krylova Nights, and etc.). This Lesage stream ends here at the beginning of the 19th century. novels by Bulgarin and especially Narezhny: “Russian Gilles Blas” 1814, and some. others, who in turn influenced Gogol. It should be noted that in Russia the picaro type also has its own local tradition, rooted in a story from the 17th century. (about Frol Skobeev). All the heroes of picaresque novels necessarily belong to the lower class, go through all sorts of professions, find themselves in the most bizarre situations, as a result of which, as a rule, they achieve honor and wealth. All this allows the authors, leading readers after their hero - through huts and palaces - to produce, as it were, a cross-section of life modern society, give a bright and lively picture of morals and everyday life, which makes the picaresque novel a genuine forerunner of the later real novel. The sublime knightly ideology and the opposite, quirky morality of the rogue hero, which remain two of its main themes throughout the development of the adventure novel, in early XVII V. united on Spanish soil into one of the most remarkable works of world literature, Cervantes' novel Don Quixote. In the realistic environment of the bourgeois XVI-XVII centuries. the symbolic idealism of chivalry, pursuing the world's evil under the fabulous forms of all these wizards and giants, seemed like a mad struggle with windmills. The pathos of the novel is the discrepancy between character and environment, a great spirit immersed in small days. However, the very form of the novel is built according to the type of picaresque short stories, which signifies final victory this genre. In its further development, the European novel undergoes a wide variety of differentiation, but its main compositional and plot scheme - a labyrinth of adventures - was accepted until the 18th century. by the majority of authors, completely regardless of what - psychological, everyday, social, satirical, etc. - thread runs through its convolutions. These are in the 17th century. French gallant-heroic novels by Gomberville, Calprened, Scuderi, didactic poem-novel by Fenolon, love-psychological novels by Prevost, satirical, simultaneously approaching the type of utopian novel: “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, Rabelais, in England - “Gulliver’s Travels”, Swift , partly, famous, nurtured by contemporary politicians economic theories Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe", which laid the foundation for countless Robinsonades and formed new genre exotic adventure novel. During the 18th century. The psychological novel stands out as a completely special genre.
However, the adventurous tradition is maintained with the same vigor in the only English domestic novels by Fielding (“The History and Adventures of Joseph Andrew and His Friend Mr. Abraham Lincoln”, “The History of Tom Jones, Foundling”) and Smollett (“Roderick Random”, “Peregrine Pickle” and etc.) and Voltaire’s satirical “Candide”, not only fills the famous “mysterious” novels of Radcliffe (“The Mysteries of Udolf”, 1794, etc.) and the “robber” novels of Shiis, Kramer, Zschocke, but also penetrates into the psychological Goethe's novel "The Student and Wandering Years of Wilhelm Meister." This latter, canonized by the romantics as an exemplary novel and the highest achievement of modern literature, will give numerous reflections in their work “Heinrich von Ofterdingen”, Novalis, “The Wanderings of Franz Sternbald”, Tieck), on the other hand, with its motif of invisible patrons through the novel Jean -Paul (Richter) “The Invisible Lodge”, 1793 and the typical adventure novels of Georges Sand - “Consuelo” and “Countess Rudolstadt” - lays the foundation for the modern occult novel. In the 19th century in the evolution of the novel; the real novel comes decisively to the forefront. The forms of the adventure novel meet us in Hugo's "The Unfortunates" and in German public novels Gutskov, who used new scheme development of an adventure novel - instead of successive adventures (Roman des Nacheinander), adventures unfolding in parallel (Roman des Nebeneinander), in the historical novels of Walter Scott and later, G. Sienkiewicz, in Dickens's "Pickwick Papers" splashing with fun (see his the same criminal novel "Oliver Twist") and "Tartareniade" by A. Daudet, in the social novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Beecher Stowe, in our " Dead souls"Gogol, etc. However, pure adventure novels are against the historical background of A. Dumas the Father (1802-1870): the “cloak and sword” novel of the “Three Musketeers” type, the criminal adventure novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” - and Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851): novels from the life of the Redskins (the Leatherstocking cycle and a naval novel, which he began simultaneously with Capt. Marryat (1792-1848) - which enjoyed exceptional success and won a huge audience, still turn out to be on the periphery literary development. Almost at the line fiction there are adventure novels by E. Xiu (“The Eternal Jew” 1844 and “ Parisian secrets”, the prototype of “Petersburg slums” by V. Krestovsky 1864-7), published in the form of feuilletons and gave impetus to the development of the so-called. tabloid-romance literature (see tabloid novel), such as the criminal-pornographic novels of Xavier de Montepin (after 1848), etc. The beginning of the criminal novel was laid by the English novelist Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73), who gave Zanoni in his other novels ( 1842) and " Strange story"(1862) examples of the occult novel, in "The Race of the Future", the novel resurrected the utopia of the 17th century. The tradition of the criminal novel continues in the work of Gaboriau (1835-73), the author of numerous novels with a mysterious crime and a detective solving it at the center of almost all of them (the famous Lecoq cycle). An encyclopedia of the criminal novel, which develops throughout the entire 19th century. almost on the other side of fiction (which did not, however, prevent the criminal-tabloid tradition from achieving the highest artistry under the hands of Dostoevsky), and in the 20th century. flared up with renewed vigor in the detective or detective (see this word) novel (Conan Doyle, whose “Sherlock Holmes” came from the brilliant criminal stories of E. Poe, in his “The Tale of Arthur Gordon Pym” who gave a brilliant example of a pure adventure novel, Maurice Leblond, “Pinkertonism,” etc.) was the sixteen-volume and yet unfinished work of the French novelist Ponson du Terrail, “The Adventures of Rocambole,” in the first half of the novel he is a tireless hero of all kinds of crimes and criminal adventures, and in the second (the Resurrected Rocambole), who repented and voluntarily took on the task of fighting the criminal world. The second channel along which the development of the adventure novel went is the so-called. novels of “adventures on land and sea”, the authors of which (Mine Reid, Rider Haggard, Gustav Aimard, Jacolliot, Boussenard, etc., for Lately Jack London, we have Green) followed the path outlined by Fenimore Cooper, and depict the strong, emphatically heroic characters of all kinds of gold and adventure seekers in a victorious struggle with people and nature taking place mostly in an exotic setting. This also includes scientific-utopian novels by Jules Verne, Wales, occult novels (the aforementioned Bulwer Lytton, we have V.S. Solovyov, Kryzhanovskaya (Rochester), subtle stylization of Gusto picaresco by Cagliostro, M. Kuzmin, etc., partly “Mysteries” by Hamsun ), a revolutionary adventure novel (for example, Voynich’s novel “The Gadfly”, etc.), etc. Recently (after the war) there has been a new surge of interest in the adventure novel from authors and readers. New works of this kind for the most part operate on traditional plots (in the acclaimed novel by Burroughs “Tarzan” we have the Robinson story of an Englishman brought up on desert island monkeys; the author of no less sensational novels “Atlantis”, “The Giant’s Road”, etc. P. Benoit, with amazing sleight of hand, throws away cards from the traditional deck of adventure novels: a journey to a utopian country, an exotic queen who rewards the death of her lovers, tracked down spies, etc. .). We have some refreshment of the plot only in Chesterton’s original novel “When I Was Thursday,” which appeared shortly before the war (a volume of provocation inspired by the Azefovshchina). In our country, Ilya Ehrenburg’s recent work “Julio Jurenito”, which responds in the form of an adventurous novel to the most vibrant modernity, is devoted to the same theme with the characteristic glorification of a provocateur. See: Tiander - “Morphology of the Novel”, Issue. theory and psychology creativity, vol. II, and Sipovsky - “Essays from the history of the Russian novel.”
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Adventures in life begin with adventure books.
Jules Verne
For many of us, our love of books and reading began with adventure novels. And for children who discovered the joy of reading, “adventures” often became the first book they read on their own.
Here is a list of 10 best adventure novels , both Russian and foreign authors. This list is the choice of librarians, we will be glad to hear your preferences in this genre. We hope that exciting adventures, whether at sea, land, or on another planet, will bring you unforgettable pleasure.
Grigory Adamov "The Secret of Two Oceans"
The unique submarine “Pioneer” sets off on a voyage across two oceans full of dangers and mysterious incidents. She will have to go around Cape Horn, fight a Japanese cruiser, survive a clash with saboteurs...
A classic adventure novel, one of the first and best examples science fiction for teenagers. Many of the technical ideas presented in it still amaze with their scientific foresight. First published in 1938, the book remains popular among readers to this day.
Jules Verne "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
Having deciphered an ancient note, Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel become the owners of a secret that can shake humanity. It turns out that our planet is hollow from the inside, and in the center of the Earth there is mysterious world, about which people know nothing. Who knows what awaits the researchers who dare to go down there through the crater of an extinct volcano? The professor decides to organize an expedition - and find out as soon as possible! The famous novel by the classic of adventure literature Jules Verne has won the hearts of many generations of readers. Today this book is included in the golden fund of adventure literature.
Arthur Conan Doyle "The Lost World"
Edward Malone, a young and promising journalist for the Daily Newspaper, urgently needed to accomplish a feat. This condition was set before him by the beautiful Gladys, whose hand Edward sought. So Malone found himself on the expedition of Professor Challenger, an eccentric scientist who dared to claim that dinosaurs still live in the jungles of South America... Who would have thought that this incredible hypothesis would be confirmed, and brave researchers would see with their own eyes a piece of the mysterious and dangerous ancient world? !
Alexandre Dumas "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Alexandre Dumas, a French classic and the famous author of The Three Musketeers, once found in the Parisian police archives the story of the sailor Francois Picot, who ended up in prison as a result of the denunciation of ill-wishers and who, many years later, managed to take revenge on those responsible.
Dumas turned this true incident into the most important adventure novel in the history of world literature, the popularity of which continues unabated to this day. This book awaits the reader incredible events and incidents, exciting plot twists, skillful descriptions of human vices and passions, laughter, tears, love, revenge and the triumph of justice.
Veniamin Kaverin "Two Captains"
As a boy, Sanka decided to find the missing expedition of Captain Tatarinov at any cost. “Fight and search, find and not give up” - with this motto Sanka walked through life towards his goal. This amazing book about the intertwining of destinies, perseverance and weakness of character, patriotism and cowardice, betrayal and loyalty for many years has not left either an adult or a young reader indifferent.
“Two Captains” is one of the most striking works of Russian adventure literature of the 20th century. It was republished several times and was filmed both in Russia and abroad; the musical “Nord-Ost” was based on it.
Jack London "Hearts of Three"
“Hearts of Three” – a pearl creative heritage London.
The fascinating story of cousins Francis and Henry Morgan, distant descendants of the great pirate captain, who went in search of the treasures of their legendary ancestor, and the beautiful Leoncia, with whom they are both in love, has been filmed more than once - both in the West and in our country.
But even the most successful film adaptations still failed to fully embody all the charm and fascination of Jack London’s immortal novel...
Patrick O'Brien "Commander and Navigator"
"Commander and Navigator" is the first novel in Patrick O'Bryan's famous historical series dedicated to the era Napoleonic wars. In it, a friendship develops between British Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and the ship's doctor, Stephen Maturin. Their sloop Sophie, cruising off the coast of Spain, shows miracles of heroism in collisions with Spanish-French ships.
Maria Semyonova "Swan Road"
Swan Road - that’s what the Vikings and heroes called the sea historical novel Maria Semenova. In the middle of the 9th century, when Norway was united into a state, many residents of the northern lands were forced to take this road, moving to other lands, including Rus'. About one of these journeys, about meetings with different tribes, about an attempt to start new life among the Slavs, the book tells a vivid, excitingly interesting story, with deep knowledge and the feeling of a distant era.
Henry Rider Haggard "Montezuma's Daughter"
The English writer and publicist Henry Rider Haggard was an avid traveler and meticulous researcher, so his novels are based on personal impressions and real historical facts. The combination of a fascinating plot and dynamic narrative, an abundance of reliable details and the author’s rich imagination - all this makes Haggard’s works in demand today.
The fate of the hero of the novel “Montezuma's Daughter” by Thomas Wingfield is a continuous chain of surprises. He intended to become a doctor, but was declared the supreme god of the Aztecs; instead of peaceful life in his father's estate he fought against the conqueror of Mexico, Cortez. He swore his love and fidelity to a girl named Lily, but became the husband of Princess Otomie...
Robert Shtilmark "The Heir from Calcutta"
Adventurous in literature is concept associated with adventure, describing adventure, adventurous. The adventurous in literature as a prototype of consciousness has long been an important component of works of world literature from heroic epics to adventure epics and narratives.
History of adventure literature
In the history of literature adventure genre Particularly significant is the “Greek novel” (I-IV centuries), which, according to the famous Russian philosopher and researcher M. M. Bakhtin, shows a perfect and fully created type of adventurous time, including all its features and details. The scientist believes that further development The adventure novel did not significantly influence the technique of using adventurous time.
M. M. Bakhtin defines the most appropriate parameters of adventurous time - “suddenness” and “chance”, because it operates where the normal series of events ends and is replaced by non-standard pure chance.
Therefore, the plot of an adventurous work unfolds independently of stable social and family principles, and is determined by open, unexpected, not predetermined events, because an adventure is circumstances that can happen to absolutely anyone.
Adventurous and motivated
Passing different periods history of the development of literature, the interpretation of adventure was different, which was determined by the social and cultural contexts of each stage.
IN initial period development - from the oldest literary work “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, or the poem “About Seen Everything”, created during XVIII-XVII centuries BC e. before the poems “Shahnameh” or “Book of Kings”, written during the period 976-1011, “The Song of the Nibelungs” - XII-XIII centuries - adventurousness is closely interconnected with fairy tales and fantasy.
With time fairy tale motifs adventurous are replaced by the real meaning inherent in such works of art as: a chivalric romance, medieval works, a picaresque novel, precious literature, as well as the work of Francois Fenelon (the novel “The Adventures of Telemachus” 1692-1695), in which the fantastic and mythical play a secondary role.
The concept of adventure is fully revealed in the literature of the Enlightenment (late 17th-early 19th centuries), during which the genre of the adventure novel emerged. The period is rich in famous world works by the first proponent of the novel as a genre, the brilliant adventure writer Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe” in 1719, “The Life and Pirate Adventures of the Glorious Captain Singleton” in 1720, “The Joys and Sorrows of the Famous Moll Flanders”, published in 1722 . Voltaire’s cynical story “Candide, or Optimism” of 1759 is not without adventure.
Consistently, adventurous becomes part of a psychological novel, present in the novel of education of Johann Wolfgang Goethe “The Teaching Years of Wilhelm Meister” 1795-1796. and its continuation “The Years of Wanderings of Wilhelm Meister, or the Forsaken” 1821-1829.
The adventure genre is reflected in the literature of representatives of the Romantic era ( late XVIII centuries - early XIX century), penetrating into the works of the classics of world adventure literature: Walter Scott, George Gordon Byron, James Fenimore Cooper, whose creative views are aimed at interest in folklore, myths, fairy tales, nature, and the actual knowledge of the world through heroics and adventures (adventures).
Having received aesthetic formation during the period of romanticism and neo-romanticism, the adventurous creates a separate round of literature in the adventure genre, the assets of which are the creative fruits of Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Main Reid, Robert Louis Stevens, Joseph Conrad. The emergence of a separate adventurous direction gives rise to the emergence of new genres of fantastic literature: fantasy, detective, science fiction and others.
Besides, adventurous is an important component of the literary classics of the 19th-20th centuries: poetry of A. S. Pushkin, prose of N. V. Gogol, works of F. M. Dostoevsky, I. Ilf and E. Petrov, as well as English and French word masters: Charles Dickens and Honore de Balzac, respectively, William Cuthbert Faulkner, James Joyce.
The original satirical version of the adventurous is practiced by postmodernism of the 2nd half of the twentieth century, the list of representatives of which includes: John Fowles, Peter Ackroyd, Michel Tournier, Umberto Eco, Victor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin.
Adventure literature is a characteristic, easily recognizable adventurous genre of literature, which provides for a clear demarcation of the participants in the work into heroic and villainous characters, the speed of development of events, sudden change and the severity of circumstances, excessive emotional impulses, motives for kidnapping, secrets and deep secrets.
The plot of adventurous works is filled with exciting events and dangerous problematic situations described in detail by the author, from which the hero emerges before the reader’s eyes, reflecting the era, traditions, literary vision of the author, possessing inventive abilities and risk.
The main task of adventure literature is not only to create creative reality, but also to entertain the reader.
The word adventurous comes from French “aventure”, which means adventure.
The adventure novel is a firmly established genre of literature, characterized by rapid development of the plot, sharp plot twists, and real adventures. As a rule, adventure books are designed to entertain, but often such literature is not limited to this function. In this section you will find a variety of different and dissimilar books that will draw you in from the very first lines so that it will be difficult to put down.
Features of books in the Adventure novel genre
The best adventure novels captivate you from the first pages: the authors masterfully immerse us in the atmosphere of the book, and then the screws of the developing plot are tightened ever faster. The genre began with historical books filled with adventures: just remember books about Indians, Caribbean pirates, the banks of the Amazon, treasure islands, trips around the world, the jungle and much more. Such works are based on real lively drive: chases and kidnappings, battles, fights, riddles and secrets. The heroes of the books are charismatic, strong personalities, capable of going against troubles and fate, and their actions delight the reader. It could be the captains pirate ships, Indians, travelers, young guys - the main thing is that a rich series of adventurous adventures awaits them ahead.
Today, in addition to the fact that you can download adventure novels in the classic form, the genre has developed and began to intertwine with many areas of science fiction, fantasy, detective stories and even the young direction of LitRPG. After all, adventures have a place in any place, in any world, both in the distant fantastic future and in the early Middle Ages. In fact, the genre has no rigid established framework, and this is what continues to attract new readers.
Reading adventure novels (or adventure novel, as it is sometimes called) means enjoying interesting and impressive books.
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