Adventure story
Adventure story noun - A story of an adventure.
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Novel and adventure story are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Novel" instead a noun phrase "Adventure story".
Novel
Novel noun - An extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story.
Adventure story and novel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Adventure story" instead a noun "Novel".
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- Melville's first serious attempt at great fiction was Mardi, a Wacky Wayside Tribe-laden adventure story bogged down with snarling philosophical tangents, a protagonist who up and disappears for two-thirds of the novel, and an open ending.
Source: Magnum Opus Dissonance -
The advertising blurb claims that it is "equal parts autobiography, adventure story, and Shrek-style parody of every recent novel set in Neverland including the official sequel".
Source: Creator / David Gonterman - William Goldman's The Princess Bride claims to be "the good parts version" of an earlier novel by Simon Morgenstern, turning what was a digression-laden, politics-heavy slog into a fun action-adventure story.
Source: Adaptation Distillation
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