An extravagant series of adventures purportedly recounted by the authentic Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen to the scholar and sometime author Rudolf Eric Raspe on returning to Germany after ten years of serving in the Russian army.
This lively and hard-to-believe but hard-to-leave account first published in English in London in 1785 almost instantly became famous all over Europe of the time.
It was translated into German (and extended) in 1786 by the poet (…)
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"The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1785) by Rudolf Erich Raspe
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"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1927) by B. Traven
15 October 2021, by B. TravenA remarkably realistic novel about a trio of American down-and-outers digging for gold in the troubled Mexico of the post-revolutionary period, told in the inimitably forceful, down-to-earth style of the author of The Death Ship.
A forceful tale brimming with empathy for the common man and his lot in life – but not with Mexican bandits, who get decidedly short shrift – magnificently transposed to the screen by John Huston in 1948 in his Academy-Award-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart. (…) -
"The Death Ship" (1926) by B. Traven
11 October 2021, by B. TravenThis extraordinary account of the life and hardships of a penniless but very articulate and anti-establishmentarian not to say revolutionary sailor in the chaotic post-WW1 world of the twenties was first published as Das Totenschiff in Germany in 1926 under the pen-name of B. Traven. It was translated into English by its mysterious author himself in 1934.
It’s a fascinating, hard-to-put down epic about the quite unbelievably bad working conditions of vagrant workers at the bottom on the (…) -
"Dead Souls" (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
16 June 2021, by Nikolai GogolThe account of the not-always-successful attempts of the traveling schemer Chichikov to make his way in the world by ingratiating himself with important people and devising complicated schemes to achieve financial and social success by wile and charm — notably to purchase deceased surfs (“dead souls” in the language of the time) to defraud the government with — and above all by not doing anything involving hard work.
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Gavin Lyall (1964)
1 February 2020, by Gavin LyallThe most dangerous game of the title of this very classy adventure novel with a strong espionage tinge is far more dangerous than any bear or other wild beast – it’s a man with a gun who knows how to use it.
With Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male (1939), it is our choice for the best man-hunt story – in the literal sense – of all time.
(74,000 words) An e-book of this well-paced and well-written thriller is available for downloading below. THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
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"Rogue Male" by Geoffrey Household (1939)
1 January 2020, by Geoffrey HouseholdRogue Male is without a doubt in our humble opinion the master reference, the model, the bestest with the mostest – in a word, the greatest suspense thriller with a man-hunt theme ever written!
It starts off with a terrific scene of an expert hunter closing in on the biggest and by far the most dangerous game of them all, man – and then goes off on a long and very gripping account of the hunt the other way around once the tables have been reversed, and finishes with a terrific climax (…) -
INDEX OF THE 95 NOVELS ON THIS SITE
1 January 2019, by Ray=> 1. BY AUTHOR
=> 2. BY DATE OF PUBLICATION
1. INDEX OF NOVELS BY AUTHOR AUTHORTITLEDATE 1 Jane Austin Sense and Sensibility 1811 2 Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice 1813 3 J. M. Barrie Peter Pan 1911 4 L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1900 5 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 1847 6 Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights 1847 7 Samuel Butler The Way of all Flesh 1903 8 Steven Crane The Red Badge of Courage 1895 9 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1719 10 Charles Dickens The Pickwick (…)