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245 04 $aThe Oxford book of adventure stories /$cedited by Joseph Bristow.
246 30 $aBook of adventure stories
246 30 $aAdventure stories
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1995.
300 $axxv, 410 pages ;$c23 cm
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520 $aThis anthology brings together 23 of the best adventure stories from the zenith of empire to our present fragmented post-colonial world. Pitched against the unknown, against the forces of nature and against man's own treachery, the protaganists' courage and heroism are put to the test.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aMS found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe -- A hazard of the north / Gilbert Parker -- The private history of a campaign that failed / Mark Twain -- A tale of three lions / H. Rider Haggard -- The isle of voices / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The man-eater of the Terai / G.A. Henty -- The red stockade / Bram Stoker -- The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling -- Aepyornis Island / H.G. Wells -- The lagoon / Joseph Conrad -- All gold canyon / Jack London -- The grove of Ashtaroth / John Buchan -- The fiend of the cooperage / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The follower / Frederick Carruthers Cornell -- Tigre / Zane Grey -- Hatteras / A.E.W. Mason -- Thunder over Germany: a 'Biggles' adventure / Captain W.E. Johns -- Truth is stranger / Percival Christopher wre???Wren -- A distant episode / Paul Bowles -- The chamois / Daphne Du Maurier -- Octopussy / Ian Fleming -- On the rainy river / Tim O'Brien -- Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood.
650 0 $aAdventure stories, English.
650 7 $aAdventure stories, English.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00797478
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653 0 $aEnglish fiction$aAdventure stories
655 4 $aAnthologie.
700 1 $aBristow, Joseph.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/94011192-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/94011192-d.html
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