Best Adventures Book collections (Grapevine edition)

Twenty Years After | The Call of the Wild | Around the World in Eighty Days | The Three Musketeers are the Best Adventures Book collections. Twenty Years After - In this game the loser is the one who doesnt murder. The Three Musketeers sequel Twenty Years After (1845) is a masterpiece of suspense and valiant adventure. Since the musketeers victory over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady two centuries ago. Their loyalty has been scattered and their resolve has been weakened by time. However treasons and plots continue to demand retribution: in France a civil war puts the throne in jeopardy and in England Cromwell threatens to hang Charles I. Dumas drags his legendary quartet out of retirement to engage in combat with the forces of history time and human evil. But the son of Milady who bears the visage of Evil represents their biggest challenge in a cataclysmic battle. The Call of the Wild which was first published in 1903 is often recognised as Jack Londons finest work. The Call of the Wild is a story about unbreakable spirit and the struggle for survival in the cold Alaskan Klondike based on Londons experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his beliefs on nature and the struggle for existence. Around the World in Eighty Days - Phileas Fogg wagers his travelling buddies that he can complete the worlds circumference in only eighty days one evening in the reform club. He instantly departs for Dover with his shocked servant Passepartout breaking the regular routine of his daily existence. They grasp whatever mode of conveyance is available whether it is an elephant or a train overcoming obstacles and always working against the clock as they travel through exotic locales and hazardous areas. The Three Musketeers - The most well-known story by Alexandre Dumas arguably the most well-known historical fiction ever in a gorgeous hardback edition. In a swirl of adventure espionage conspiracy murder vengeance love scandal and suspense this swashbuckling epic of chivalry honour and daring-do set in France around the 1620s is vividly populated with fascinating heroes unreachable heroines kings queens cavaliers and criminals. The Comte dArtagnan a brazen young man seeking glory the seductively evil seductress Milady the strong and cunning Cardinal Richelieu the feeble King Louis XIII and his unhappy queen—and of course the three musketeers themselves Athos Porthos and Aramis whose motto all for one one for all has come to symbolise devoted friendship—are just a few of the minor