Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a well-known example of a fantasized adventure story.

A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious bildungsroman, it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact.

In an interview around the film's DVD release in 2001, Elwes said, " The studio didn't know how to sell itas an adventure, fantasy, comedy or love story, it had to rely on word of mouth ".

A typical Dungeons & Dragons game consists of an ' adventure ', which is roughly equivalent to a single story.

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

As Don Rosa explained it, he was just "(...) turning that old Pertwillaby Papers adventure back into the story it originally was in my head, starring Scrooge, Donald, the nephews, and Flintheart Glomgold.

* Professional Soldier ( 1935 ) — an adventure story starring Victor McLaglen and Freddie Bartholomew

The story Heart of Darkness focuses on Charles Marlow as he recounts an exotic adventure to a close group of men aboard a sailboat anchored in the Thames Estuary.

At the close of the previous story, Cigars of the Pharaoh, he had mentioned that Tintin's next adventure would bring him to China.

Although Infocom started out with Zork, and although the Zork world was the centerpiece of their product line throughout the Zork and Enchanter series, the company quickly branched out into a wide variety of story lines: fantasy, science-fiction, mystery, horror, historical adventure, children's stories, and others that defied categories.

* Simon Hawke uses the story as the basis for The Ivanhoe Gambit the first novel in his time travel adventure series TimeWars.

Each division contains the story of a single adventure in the career of Gilgamesh.

An adventure story that may have influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs's later books.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ) recounts the adventure of two orphans seeking a magical castle-island that floats in the sky ; My Neighbor Totoro ( Tonari no Totoro, 1988 ) tells of the adventure of two girls and their interaction with forest spirits ; and Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), adapted from a novel by Eiko Kadono, tells the story of a small-town girl who leaves home to begin life as a witch in a big city.

* 1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.

The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

In a current edition of Matheson's The Shrinking Man, King is quoted: " A horror story if there ever was one ... a great adventure story — it is certainly one of that select handful that I have given to people, envying them the experience of the first reading.

Stories with the device used by the Second Doctor before the screwdriver's first on-screen appearance are plausible as the Doctor in that story indicates that the machine " never fails ", implying its successful use before that adventure.

Of The Saint's companions, only Norman Kent was killed during an adventure ( he sacrifices himself to save Templar in the novel The Last Hero ); the other males are presumed to have settled down and married ( two to former female criminals: Dicky Tremayne to " Straight Audrey " Perowne and Peter Quentin to Kathleen " The Mug " Allfield ; Archie Sheridan is mentioned to have married in " The Lawless Lady " in Enter the Saint, presumably to Lilla McAndrew after the events of the story " The Wonderful War " in Featuring the Saint ).

That story revealed that Templar wrote an adventure novel featuring a South American hero not far removed from The Saint himself.

In an August 2008 Observer interview, Gorillaz band members Albarn and Hewlett revealed the nature and title of the project, Journey to the West, a movie adaptation of the opera of the same name based on a 16th-century Chinese adventure story also known as Monkey.

Mérimée's story is a blend of travelogue and adventure yarn, probably inspired by the writer's lengthy travels in Spain in 1830, and had originally been published in 1845 in the journal Revue des deux mondes.

Grim Fandango is a dark comedy neo-noir Windows adventure game released by LucasArts in 1998, primarily written by Tim Schafer.

The officers described the lifestyle as quite glamorous and very varied, with plenty of overseas travel and adventure, and described their role primarily as intelligence gatherers, developing relationships with potential sources.

Established in 1973, Breakthrough in Hong Kong was the first non-profit organization that applied the concepts of Experiential Education ( though primarily conceptualized in terms of outdoor adventure education ) in youth works.

New Zealand is marketed abroad as a " clean, green " adventure playground, with typical destinations being nature areas such as Milford Sound, Abel Tasman National Park or the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, while activities such as bungee jumping or whale watching exemplify typical tourist attractions, often marketed primarily to individual-and small-group travellers.

Adventure Game Studio ( acronym AGS ) is a free software development tool that is primarily used to create graphical adventure games.

* Starz Kids & Family: Features commercial-free family movies from action and adventure movies to comedies to family treasures, along with some animated and imported live-action children's series ; includes " Building Blocks ", a weekday morning block of ( primarily Canadian ) animated series and " Six Block ", a weekday evening block of imported live-action series aimed at pre-teens.

The role of the NZCF ceased being primarily of military training and the preparation of young men for the Armed Forces and became predominantly adventure and development motivated with a military flavour and about 50 % military subjects associated with providing knowledge of the roles and functions of the NZDF.

Brackett's stories are primarily adventure fiction, but also contain reflections on the themes of cultural and corporate imperialism and colonialism.

He attended MIT in the late 1980s, but left and went to work with Looking Glass Studios, when they were making primarily MS-DOS-based first-person adventure / shooter / roleplaying games, including Ultima Underworld, Ultima Underworld II, System Shock and Thief.

Starting with The Catalyst, which is primarily a flashback to an adventure before Horror of Fang Rock, elderly Leela is being interrogated by a Z ' Nai warrior ( a race encountered by the Third Doctor ).

* Graphic adventure game – any adventure game that relies on graphical imagery, rather than being primarily text-based.

They are designed primarily for sports, military, and outdoor adventure oriented activity ; practically all G-Shocks have some kind of stopwatch feature, countdown timer, light and water resistance.

It is primarily an adventure game.

" IGN were primarily mixed, rating it a 6. 5 / 10 and saying " Lara Croft's last adventure on PlayStation is also her very best.

An interesting comparison can be made between the romance themes of this novel and The Man in the Brown Suit, which is also primarily an adventure novel, rather than a straight whodunnit.

David Lloyd wrote about him Tony was one of just a very few strip artists here and in the US whose creative identities owed nothing to the heritage of stylisation which influenced many other newspaper adventure strip creators — he was primarily an illustrator who just happened to love drawing strips ......

Wintermute Engine ( commonly abbreviated as WME ) is a set of software tools and a runtime interpreter ( game engine ) primarily designed for creating and running graphical adventure games.

Hergé was very concerned with portraying the country accurately, and the adventure can be read as anti-imperialist.

As far as this Swedish adventure is concerned, Beowulf and Bödvar Bjarki are one and the same.

Most tieflings prefer to be adventurers and rarely ever adventure with their own kin due to the prejudices of other races ( people are concerned when two or more of their kind travel together ).

Good-aligned dragons, while concerned with defeating evil, are able to see a much broader scope of the world, and although certain crises arise that may seem extremely important to good-aligned humans, their dragon counterparts are able to see the event as an unimportant hiccup that will pass in mere centuries ; even those that adventure with others tend show a sense of incredible patience, even in situations where all others feel they've not a second to lose.

* Although Angel and Spike have a particularly acrimonious relationship where Buffy is concerned, this adventure ( and Buffy having moved on from them both ) provides them with somewhat of a bonding experience-they drink together, engage in their most civil dialogue to date, and reminisce about the past.