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adventure story

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Noun1.adventure storyadventure story - a story of an adventure              
heroic tale
story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
thriller - a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
saga - a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account


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I think it's quite natural that a nine-year-old boy would sooner read an adventure story than the Bible.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
He would write an adventure story for boys and sell it to THE YOUTH'S COMPANION.
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