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The Big Book of Adventure Stories: The Most Daring... - Great Condition!!!
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2011
- ISBN
- 9780307474506
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
030747450X
ISBN-13
9780307474506
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038273161
Product Key Features
Book Title
Big Book of Adventure Stories : The Most Daring, Dangerous, and Death-Defying Collection of Adventure Tales EverCaptured in One Mammoth Volume
Number of Pages
896 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Sea Stories, Action & Adventure
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
32.5 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-002226
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
823/.08708
Table Of Content
SWORD AND SORCERY The Golden Snare Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur The Devil in Iron Robert E. Howard The Mighty Manslayer Harold Lamb The Seven Black Priests Fritz Leiber MEGALOMANIA RULES The Master Magician Loring Brent The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell The Man Who Would be King Rudyard Kipling The Wings of Kali Grant Stockbridge MAN VS. NATURE The White Silence Jack London Sredni Vashtar Saki The Seed from the Sepulcher Clark Ashton Smith Leiningen versus the Ants Carl Stephenson The Sea Raiders H. G. Wells ISLAND PARADISE Hell Cay Lester Dent Off the Mangrove Coast Louis L'Amour The Golden Anaconda Elmer Brown Mason Shanghai Jim Frank L. Packard The Python Pit George F. Worts SAND AND SUN The Soul of a Turk Achmed Abdullah Peace Waits at Marokee H. Bedford-Jones Nor Idolatry Blind the Eye Gabriel Hunt The Soul of a Regiment Talbot Mundy Snake-Head Theodore Roscoe Suicide Patrol Georges Surdez A Gentleman of Color P. C. Wren SOMETHING FEELS FUNNY After King Kong Fell Philip Jose Farmer Moonlight Sonata Alexander Woollcott GO WEST, YOUNG MAN The Caballero's Way O. Henry Zorro Deals with Treason Johnston McCulley Hopalong's Hop Clarence E. Mulford FUTURE SHOCK The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings To Serve Man Damon Knight Armageddon--2419 A. D. Philip Francis Nowlan I SPY Woman in Love Geoffrey Household MacHinery and the Cauliflowers Alistair MacLean Wheels Within Wheels H. C. McNeile A Question of Passports Baroness Orczy Intelligence Rafael Sabatini YELLOW PERIL The Copper Bowl George Fielding Eliot The Hand of the Mandarin Quong Sax Rohmer IN DARKEST AFRICA The Green Wildebeest John Buchan The Slave Brand of Slegman Bin Ali James Anson Buck Fire L. Patrick Greene Hunter Quatermain's Story H. Rider Haggard Bosambo of Monrovia Edgar Wallace Black Cargo Cornell Woolrich Tarzan the Terrible Edgar Rice Burroughs
Synopsis
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, 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 Jung≤ 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
LC Classification Number
PR1309.A38B54 2011
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- o***p (377)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem arrived damaged from shipping, but seller had packed carefully. Seller was excellent to work with, and handled the refund with ease. Pleasure to work with and would buy from again. Although destroyed, it was clear the shade was as described. Thanks!Stiffel Barrel Drum Lamp Shade Linen Floor Table 15x16 - Vintage ! - See Photos! (#305638409633)
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