Found 7,147 results for "Adventure and adventurers in fiction"
by Arthur Conan Doyle
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...
by Howard Pyle
IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades...
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
by Lewis Carroll
The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.
by H. Rider Haggard
There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...
by Kenneth Grahame
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...
by Carlo Collodi
How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child
by Arthur Conan Doyle
I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.
by Mark Twain
"Tom!" No answer. "Tom!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You, TOM!"
by Charles Dickens
There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.
by Dav Pilkey
Estos son Jorge Betanzos y Berto Henares.
by Roald Dahl
Ce Vieux monsieur et cette vieille dame sont les parents de Mr. Bucket.
by C. S. Lewis
THIS IS THE STORY OF AN ADVENTURE that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Pet...