Popular European Adventure Books
Find adventure books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (93)
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Les trois mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas FR
FranceDescription:
Les aventures de d’Artagnan et de ses trois célèbres acolytes, Athos, Porthos et Aramis, ce sont avant tout la vaillance et le panache, un débordement d’énergie et d’audace, de la romance et de la comédie qui virent parfois à la tragédie quand, au détour d’une page, se profile la silhouette de l’inquiétante Milady... Des générations de lecteurs ont été subjuguées par Les Trois Mousquetaires où Dumas, avec une incomparable puissance dramatique, mêle à la fiction l’histoire et aux êtres imaginaires des personnages réels, pour faire revivre avec brio la tumultueuse époque du règne de Louis XIII.... continue
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SpainDescription:
Yann Martel's beloved Life of Pi-- recently made into a stunning 3D film directed by Ang Lee-- is now available in a deluxe pocket edition with leatherette cover.
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is... continue
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Love by Hanne Orstavik EN
NorwayDescription:
A single mother, Vibeke, and her son Jon, have just moved to a small, remote town in the north of Norway. It is the day before Jon's birthday, but Vibeke, preoccupied with concerns of her own, has forgotten this. With a man on her mind, she ventures to the local library and then a fairground, while Jon goes out to sell lottery tickets for his sports club. We follow the two characters on their separate journeys through a cold winter's night as Orstavik weaves together their two separate worlds - a sense of uneasiness grows.
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Manalive by G. K. Chesterton EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Light-hearted work introduces Innocent Smith, a bubbly, eccentric gentleman of questionable character, into the lives of a group of young disillusioned people -- and the result is inspired, high-spirited nonsense.
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On Midnight Beach by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick EN
IrelandDescription:
In this beautiful, epic coming-of-age novel, an old tale is rewoven as a stunning YA story by well-known Irish author/illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick. I kept clear of Dog Cullen. Till the summer we turned seventeen, the summer the dolphin came to Carrig Cove . . . Donegal, 1976 When a dolphin takes up residence in Carrig Cove, Emer and her best friend, Fee, feel like they have an instant connection with it. Then Dog Cullen and his sidekick, Kit, turn up, and the four friends begin to sneak out at midnight to go down to the beach, daring each other to swim closer and closer to the creature... continue
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Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio EN
ItalyDescription:
Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction Like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. In Andrea’s pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, he plays them against e... continue