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The Big Book of Adventure Stories: The Most Daring, Dangerous, and Death-Defying Collection of Adventure Tales Ever Captured in One Mammoth Volume Paperback - 2011

by Otto Penzler (Editor)

Penzler collects the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume, with stories by Jack London, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, Alastair MacLean, Talbot Mundy, Cornell Woolrich, and many others.


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A hair-raising collection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if you open it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk.

Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by Jack London, O. Henry, H. Rider Haggard, Alastair MacLean, Talbot Mundy, Cornell Woolrich, and many others, this wide-reaching and fascinating volume contains some of the best characters from the most thrilling adventure tales, including The Cisco Kid; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Bulldog Drummond; Tarzan; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Conan the Barbarian; Hopalong Cassidy; King Kong; Zorro; and The Spider. Divided into sections that embody the greatest themes of the genre--Sword & Sorcery, Megalomania Rules, Man vs. Nature, Island Paradise, Sand and Sun, Something Feels Funny, Go West Young Man, Future Shock, I Spy, Yellow Peril, In Darkest Africa--it is destined to be the greatest collection of adventure stories ever compiled.

Featuring:

Lawless open seas

Ferocious army ants

Deadeyed gunmen

Exotic desert islands

Feverish jungle adventures

Including:

The story that introduced The Cisco Kid

The complete novel of Tarzan the Terrible

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  • Title The Big Book of Adventure Stories: The Most Daring, Dangerous, and Death-Defying Collection of Adventure Tales Ever Captured in One Mammoth Volume
  • Author Otto Penzler (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 896
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 2011-05-31
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780307474506 / 030747450X
  • Weight 2.09 lbs (0.95 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.09 x 6.9 x 1.53 in (23.09 x 17.53 x 3.89 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, American, Adventure stories, English
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011002226
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 05/01/2011, Page 64
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