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The adventure novel is a genre of novels
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 that has adventure
Adventure

An adventure is an activity that comprises risky, dangerous or uncertain experiences. The term is more popularly used in reference to physical activities that have some potential for danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing, and extreme sports....
, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme
Theme (literature)

A theme is a simile used to relate to idioms and or literary work a message or lesson conveyed by a written text. This message is usually about life, society or human nature....
 since the earliest days of written fiction.

Indeed, the standard plot of Medieval romance
Romance (genre)

As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance refers to a style of heroic prose and Verse narrative that was particularly current in aristocratic literature of Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe, that narrated fantastic stories about the marvellous adventures of a chivalrous, heroic knight, often of super-human ab...
s was a series of adventures. Following a plot framework as old as Heliodorus
Heliodorus of Emesa

Heliodorus of Emesa, from Emesa, Syria, was a Roman and Byzantine Greece writer generally dated to the third century AD who is known for the ancient Greek romance or novel called the Aethiopica or sometimes "Theagenes and Chariclea"....
, and so durable as to be still alive in Hollywood movies
Adventure film

Adventure Film is a film genre....
, a hero
Hero

A hero , in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, the offspring of a mortal and a deity,their Greek hero cult being one of the most distinctive features of Religion in ancient Greece....
 would undergo a first set of adventures before he met his lady.






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The adventure novel is a genre of novels
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 that has adventure
Adventure

An adventure is an activity that comprises risky, dangerous or uncertain experiences. The term is more popularly used in reference to physical activities that have some potential for danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing, and extreme sports....
, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme
Theme (literature)

A theme is a simile used to relate to idioms and or literary work a message or lesson conveyed by a written text. This message is usually about life, society or human nature....
 since the earliest days of written fiction.

Indeed, the standard plot of Medieval romance
Romance (genre)

As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance refers to a style of heroic prose and Verse narrative that was particularly current in aristocratic literature of Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe, that narrated fantastic stories about the marvellous adventures of a chivalrous, heroic knight, often of super-human ab...
s was a series of adventures. Following a plot framework as old as Heliodorus
Heliodorus of Emesa

Heliodorus of Emesa, from Emesa, Syria, was a Roman and Byzantine Greece writer generally dated to the third century AD who is known for the ancient Greek romance or novel called the Aethiopica or sometimes "Theagenes and Chariclea"....
, and so durable as to be still alive in Hollywood movies
Adventure film

Adventure Film is a film genre....
, a hero
Hero

A hero , in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, the offspring of a mortal and a deity,their Greek hero cult being one of the most distinctive features of Religion in ancient Greece....
 would undergo a first set of adventures before he met his lady. A separation would follow, with a second set of adventures leading to a final reunion. Variations kept the genre alive.

From the mid 19th century onwards, when mass literacy grew, adventure became a popular subgenre of fiction. Examples of that period include Alexandre Dumas, père
Alexandre Dumas, père

Alexandre Dumas, p?re , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world....
, Jules Verne
Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....
, H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard Order of the British Empire , was a prolific writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire....
, Emilio Salgari
Emilio Salgari

Emilio Salgari was an Italians writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction in Italy.For over a century his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures....
, Louis Henri Boussenard
Louis Henri Boussenard

Louis Henri Boussenard was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed the French Rider Haggard during his lifetime but better known today in Eastern Europe than in Francophone countries....
, Thomas Mayne Reid, Sax Rohmer
Sax Rohmer

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward , better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific England novelist. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr....
, Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals....
, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
.

Adventure novels often overlap with other genres, notably war novel
War novel

A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting where the Fictional character are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war....
s, crime novels, sea stories
Sea story

A sea story is a work of fiction set largely at sea. The enclosed setting of life aboard a ship allows an author to portray a social world in miniature, with characters cut off from the outside world and forced to interact in cramped and stressful conditions....
, Robinsonade
Robinsonade

Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned enough imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a "desert island story"....
s, science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
, fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
, and Western
Western fiction

File:Wild West 1908.jpgWestern fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically between the years of 1860 and 1900 ....
s. Not all books within these genres are adventures. Adventure novels take the setting and premise of these other genres, but the fast-paced plot of an adventure focuses on the actions of the hero within the setting.

See also

Men's adventure
Men's adventure

Men's adventure is a literary genre of magazines that had its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. Catering to a male audience, these magazines featured pinup photography and lurid tales of adventure that typically featured wartime feats of daring, exotic travel, or conflict with wild animals....
, also known as the sweats, a genre
Genre fiction

Genre fiction is a term for fiction written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre....
 of pulp magazine
Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines were inexpensive fiction magazines. They were widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. The term pulp fiction can also refer to mass market paperbacks since the 1950s....
 featuring tales of exotic adventure and war
War

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time hero
Hero

A hero , in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, the offspring of a mortal and a deity,their Greek hero cult being one of the most distinctive features of Religion in ancient Greece....
ism. Picaresque novel
Picaresque novel

The picaresque novel is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satire and depicts in realism and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society....
 Robinsonade
Robinsonade

Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned enough imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a "desert island story"....
 War novel
War novel

A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting where the Fictional character are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war....