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If pirates, jousting and horseback chases no longer appeal to you, you're too old or too boring. Adventure stories fell out of vogue among 20th century literary types who thought serious fiction had to be boring and depressing, but to those born with fire in their bones, adventure stories are deeply serious.

Not serious like existentialism or keeping a stiff upper lip, but serious like Robin Hood—devoted to protecting the downtrodden, committed to Maid Marian, sworn to fight injustice as long as a soul is in his body, always laughing and ready for a fight or a feast.

G. K. Chesterton wrote adventure stories because they best expressed the eternal joy that supported his generous frame. For those raised on Modern Adventure Stories, joy may seem an inappropriate word for an increasingly dark genre, but the fault lies with those who think adventures are forays into evil rather than romps with Gilbert Keith.

There's nothing evil about a good adventure. There may be bad guys (there ought to be), but if the Good Guy does his job there'll be more of his exploits to talk about than theirs. Because, should he be doing his job, the Hero will be sword-fighting, being clever, wooing, chasing and laughing to the detriment of his enemies on every page.

Average people don't have the adventures Heroes in Books have—they have the adventures of Modern Men in Books. But the way through the prosaic troubles of life isn't to immerse yourself in them, it's to let the Good Guys show The Way Out of Problems, and do your best to imitate them when you meet the less dramatic, but no less real, dangers of everyday existence.

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	Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies Hornblower Series #11 by C. S. Forester from Little, Brown & Company for 9th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Adventures of Robin Hood Reader's Digest World's Best Reading by Paul Creswick, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth 1991 Edition from Reader's Digest for 6th-12th grade in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $8.00 (3 in stock)
	Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, George M. Towle (Translator) from Bantam Books for 7th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $5.95 $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain from Doubleday & Company for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Blue at the Mizzen Aubrey/Maturin #20 by Patrick O'Brian from W. W. Norton and Co. Nautical Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	Brethren A Tale of the Crusades by H. Rider Haggard from Christian Liberty Press Historical Fiction for 8th-Adult in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $16.75 $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Classic Adventures Ayesha: The Return of She / Benita: An African Romance by Sir H. Rider Haggard from New Orchard Editions for 8th-Adult in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Commodore Hornblower by C. S. Forester 1^st edition from Little, Brown & Company for 9th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Crying for a Vision by Walter Wangerin Jr. from Simon & Schuster Macmillan for 9th-Adult in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Curtain: Poirot's Last Case A Hercule Poirot Mystery #39 by Agatha Christie from Dodd, Mead & Co. for 8th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Darkness and the Dawn by Thomas B. Costain from Doubleday & Company for 8th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff from Laurel-Leaf Books for 10th-Adult in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $6.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
	Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (abridged) Eclectic English Classics by Daniel Defoe, edited by Kate Stephens from American Book Co. for 10th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Endurance Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing from Tyndale House for 9th-Adult in 20th Century Exploration (Location: HISW-20EXP) $16.99 $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Flames of Rome by Paul L. Maier 2^nd edition from Kregel Publications for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $15.99 $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Fortune of War Aubrey/Maturin #6 by Patrick O'Brian from W. W. Norton and Co. Nautical Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $6.50 (1 in stock)
	Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara from Ballantine Books Historical Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $8.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Golden Ocean by Patrick O'Brian from W. W. Norton and Co. Nautical Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $7.50 (2 in stock)
	Hitch by Jeanette Ingold from Harcourt Realistic Fiction for 10th-12th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA) $7.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
	If We Survive by Andrew Klavan from Thomas Nelson Publishers for 8th-12th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $14.99 $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Jungle Books Macmillan Classics by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Robert Shore from Macmillan Animal Stories for 7th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower by C. S. Forester (based on the works of), C. Northcote Parkinson from Sutton Publishing for 9th-Adult in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Lord Hornblower by C. S. Forester from Little, Brown & Company for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Lysbeth A Tale of the Dutch by H. Rider Haggard from Christian Liberty Press Historical Fiction for 8th-Adult in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $16.75 $9.00 (2 in stock)
	Master and Commander Aubrey/Maturin #1 by Patrick O'Brian from W. W. Norton and Co. Nautical Fiction for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Midshipman Bolitho by Alexander Kent from McBooks Press for 8th-Adult in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Moneyman by Thomas B. Costain from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 10th grade - Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Parzival The Quest of the Grail Knight by Katherine Paterson First Edition, First Printing from Lodestar Books for 10th-Adult in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Pearl Maiden by H. Rider Haggard from Christian Liberty Press Historical Fiction for 8th-Adult in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $16.75 $9.00 (2 in stock)
	Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, illustrated by Frank Merrill from Reader's Digest for 8th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis from HarperCollins for 3rd-12th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine by Mark Twain & Philip Stead First Edition from Doubleday Book For Young Readers for 4th-Adult in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $10.00 (2 in stock)
	Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey from Oxford University Westerns for 8th-Adult in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, illustrated by Edward A. Wilson from Heritage Press for 8th-12th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $16.00 (1 in stock)
	Robinson Crusoe Windermere Readers #14 by Daniel Defoe, frontispiece by Milo Winter from Rand McNally for 10th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (2 in stock)
	Robinson Crusoe Focus on the Family's Classic Collection by Daniel Defoe, Introduction and Afterword by Joe L. Wheeler from Focus on the Family for 10th-Adult in 18th Century Literature (Location: LIT5-18) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Robinson Crusoe (abridged) His Life and Strange Surprising Adventures Everyman's Library Children's Classics by Daniel Defoe from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Historical Fiction for 6th-12th grade in Everyman's Library Children's Classics (Location: FIC-ELC) $16.95 $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (abridged) by Sir Thomas Mallory, illustrated by Arthur Rackham from Weathervane Books for 7th-12th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Scorpion A Good Bad Horse Tumbleweed Series by Will James from Mountain Press for 8th-Adult in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card 1^st edition from Tor Books for 7th-12th grade in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder from Vintage Classics for 9th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated by Frederic Remington from Bounty Books for 7th-Adult in Poetry (Location: POET-GEN) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Tales of Mystery and Terror Puffin Classics by Edgar Allan Poe from Puffin Books Mystery/Horror for 8th-12th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $7.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
	Tales of Real Survival Usborne Reader's Library by Paul Dowswell from Usborne for 6th-12th grade in Modern History (Location: HISW-MOD) $5.40 (1 in stock)
	The Martian by Andy Weir Reprint from Broadway Books for 11th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $17.00 $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Three Musketeers Windermere Readers #20 by Alexandre Dumas, translated by Philip Schuyler Allen 1954 Edition from Rand McNally Historical Fiction/Adventure for 9th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $9.00 (2 in stock)
	Tom Sawyer Abroad and Other Stories by Mark Twain from Grosset & Dunlap for 7th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Trails Plowed Under Stories of the Old West by Charles M. Russell from Doubleday & Company for 7th-12th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.50 (1 in stock)
	Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien Film cover art from Mariner Books for 8th-12th grade in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	White Fang Dover Thrift Editions by Jack London from Dover Publications Action/Adventure for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $6.00 $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Works of Haggard by H. Rider Haggard from Walter J. Black, Inc. for 7th-Adult in Walter J. Black Classics Club (Location: VIN-LITWJB) $5.00 (1 in stock)

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