Adventure into the unknown (books)

Discover hidden literary treasures with our curated list of adventure books unknown. Dive into thrilling, lesser-known tales that promise excitement and exploration beyond the ordinary.

The Power and the Glory Cover
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The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

A tormented, alcoholic priest is pursued by an idealistic lieutenant during an anti-clerical persecution in Mexico.
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A burnt-out case

 

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River God

by Wilbur Smith

A Novel of Ancient Egypt.
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The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

Rugged, outdoor story of the sled dog Buck, who, mistreated by his master, breaks free to roam the Alaskan wilderness.
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A single pebble

 

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The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an …
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The Lord of the Rings

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

An epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-Earth, in which the tiny Hobbits play a key …
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The Gadfly

 

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Aztec

by Gary Jennings

The epic tale of an Aztec survivor of the Spanish conquest and his times as a warrior, scribe, travelling merchant, confidant of Motecuhzoma II, and …
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The Man Who Was Thursday

by G. K. Chesterton

Fast-paced novel about a club of anarchists in turn-of-the-century London and a poet/sleuth who infiltrates their ranks. Inventive and ingenious story becomes a vehicle for …
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The Odyssey

by Homer

Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line A Penguin Classic The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through …
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

First published in 1865, these endearing tales of an imaginative child's dream world by Lewis Carroll, pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, are written with …
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The Epic of Gilgamesh

 

A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King …
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The Frontiersmen

 

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidnaps …
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The Robe

by Lloyd Cassel Douglas

Christ's robe has a strange effect on the pagan soldier who wins it in a dice game after the Crucifixion.
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The Journey to the East

by Hermann Hesse

In simple, mesmersizing prose, Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual, as various historical figures travel together, encountering everything from Noah's Ark to …
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Mission to Circassia

 

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