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The Adventure of the Second Stain; The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place; The Adventure of Silver Blaze; The Adventure of the Six Napoleons; The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk; The Story of the Lost Special; The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
Howard Pease (September 6, 1894–April 14, 1974) was an American writer of adventure stories from Stockton, California. Most of his stories revolved around a young protagonist, Joseph Todhunter ("Tod") Moran, who shipped out on tramp freighters during the interwar years.
"A Winter amid the Ice" (French: Un hivernage dans les glaces) is an 1855 short adventure story by Jules Verne. [1] The story was first printed in April–May 1855 in the magazine Musée des familles. It was later reprinted by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in the collection Doctor Ox (1874), as part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series. [2]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892.It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More is a 1977 short story collection by British author Roald Dahl. The seven stories are generally regarded as being aimed at a slightly older audience than many of Dahl's other children's novels. [1] The stories were written at various times throughout his life.
The story, narrated in the first person, is about a boy and his friend Mahony taking a day off from school to seek adventure in their dull lives. The boy has sought escape from his daily routine in stories of the Wild West and American detective stories and in make-believe warfare with his schoolmates. However, "The mimic warfare of the evening ...
The Voyages series includes two short story collections and seven individual short stories that accompanied one of the novels in the series. [1] [2] The short story collections are: Doctor Ox (Le Docteur Ox, 1874) [9] Yesterday and Tomorrow (Hier et Demain, 1910) (posthumous, with stories completed or modified by Michel Verne) [10]
Adventure novels and short stories were popular subjects for American pulp magazines, which dominated American popular fiction between the Progressive Era and the 1950s. [5] Several pulp magazines such as Adventure, Argosy, Blue Book, Top-Notch, and Short Stories specialized in this genre.
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