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  2. Nick Middleton - Wikipedia

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    Part of his book 'Extremes Along the Silk Road' is included in NCERT's class 11 English textbook. He won the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award in 2002. [1] He has appeared on BBC 2's He met Norbu in Tibet Who later became his companion Through the Keyhole.

  3. Joseph Andrews - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Andrews - Wikipedia

  4. Robinson Crusoe - Wikipedia

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    Robinson Crusoe [a] (/ ˈ k r uː s oʊ / KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.Written with a combination of epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book follows the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad ...

  5. The Adventure of English - Wikipedia

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    The modern Frisian language is the closest-sounding language to the English used approximately 2,000 years ago, when the people from what is now the north of the Netherlands travelled to what would become England, and pushed the Celtic language—ancestor of modern Welsh—() to the western side of the island.

  6. Adventure fiction - Wikipedia

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    An adventure is an event or series of events that happens outside the course of the protagonist's ordinary life, usually accompanied by danger, often by physical action. Adventure stories almost always move quickly, and the pace of the plot is at least as important as characterization, setting, and other elements of creative work. [2]

  7. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Wikipedia

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    This element of metafiction is important to the novel. [7] Charlotte's narrative style is similar to 19th-century travelogues. [3] The book opens with "an important warning" and the narrator, Charlotte, defending the right to tell her story because it "is worth relating even if it did happen years ago".

  8. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  9. The Famous Five - Wikipedia

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    Du neuf pour les Cinq (1978; English title: The Famous Five and the Strange Legacy, English number: 11) Les Cinq et le trésor de Roquépine (1979; English title: The Famous Five and the Knights' Treasure, English Number: 16) Les Cinq et le diamant bleu (1979; reprinted in 1980 as Les Cinq et le rubis d'Akbar; (The Five and the Rubies Of Akbar ...