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.

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.

An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.

" This genre may sometimes overlap with the science fiction and action / adventure genre.

Even though, like Bilbo Baggins, he may not be eager for adventure, he is willing or somehow brought into a fantasy affair.

More expansive definitions of interactive fiction may refer to all adventure games, including wholly graphical adventures such as Myst.

The word " Jedi " may be derived from the Japanese word " Jidaigeki " ( 時代劇 ) which translates as " period adventure drama ".

Typically, this is intentionally done by the game creators so that the player may simply imagine themself in the adventure without being required to play a character who is of a different age, race, gender, or background.

But one of the great benefits to sailboat ownership is that one may at least imagine the type of adventure that the average affordable powerboat could never accomplish.

An " out and back " twin paradox adventure may incorporate the transfer of clock reading from an " outgoing " astronaut to an " incoming " astronaut, thus entirely eliminating the effect of acceleration.

Pure thirst for adventure may also have been a factor.

The genre is closely linked with the thriller and adventure film genres, and it may sometimes have elements of spy fiction and espionage.

Stories may feature the wide-ranging struggles national or world-spanning concerns common to high fantasy, but told from the point of view of characters more common to S & S and with the sense of adventure common to the latter.

If this is so, the Sherden, pushed by Hittite expansionism of the Late Bronze Age and prompted by the famine that affected this region at the same time, may have been pushed to the Aegean islands, where shortage of space led them to seek adventure and expansion overseas.

However, on a high adventure trip which only a small part of the troop attends, divisions between patrols may disappear entirely.

Scouts camping at Camp Arrowhead may enjoy traditional outdoor Scouting activities – backpacking, hiking, fishing, swimming, archery and shooting – as well as more challenging “ adventure ” and “ aquatics ” programs.

Scouts camping at Camp Arrowhead may enjoy traditional outdoor Scouting activities – backpacking, hiking, fishing, swimming, archery and shooting – as well as more challenging “ adventure ” and “ aquatics ” programs.

Swinging may be one solution – it provides sexual variety, adventure, and the opportunity to live out fantasies as a couple without secrecy and deceit.

It is difficult to graft but grows well from seed, typically taking about 7 years before it flowers for the first time and 15 – 20 years to reach something approaching its full size of anything between 2 – 8 m. For the home gardener, buying a " red flowering gum " from a nursery is something of an adventure: it may or may not be a ficifolia, and the flower colour does not breed true-there is no way to find out what colour the flowers will be short of planting a seedling and waiting for it to reach maturity.

Even after sexual revolutions, on the other hand, to the extent that it does not lead to procreation ( or child-rearing, as it also might exist in same-sex marriage ), romance remains peripheral though it may have virtues in the relief of stress, as a source of inspiration or adventure, or in development and the strengthening of certain social relations.

They wonder how it returned from the cloud and even consider that they may have imagined their whole adventure.

Wizard magazine ranked him as the 135th greatest comic book character of all time while IGN ranked Groo as the 100th greatest comic book hero of all time stating that "... while he may not be the brightest bulb on the battlefield, Groo is an earnest and kind-hearted adventurer whose travels are never short on laughs and adventure.

" Nintendo Power mentioned that the game " may well be the best action adventure game ever ", calling it the " wave of the future ".

LucasArts subsequently dismissed many of the designers involved with developing their adventure games, and in 2006 LucasArts president Jim Ward stated that the company may return to developing adventure games in 2015, effectively ending their adventure game era.