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British adventure novels

  • The Pickwick PapersThe first issue of The Pickwick Papers appeared in March 1836. It contained two chapters and cost one shilling. Each subsequent number followed a strict…
  • The Lord of the RingsIn the quiet village of Hobbiton, a hobbit named Frodo Baggins inherits a simple gold ring from his uncle Bilbo. This object is not merely jewelry but the…
  • The HobbitIn the early 1930s, J. R. R. Tolkien sat at his desk as a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University. He was marking School Certificate papers when he…
  • The Lost World (Doyle novel)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood before the Royal Geographical Society on the 13th of February 1911. He listened intently as his friend Percy Harrison Fawcett…