Adventure stories - Early works to 1800
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A compleat history of the intrigues of priests and nuns . Consisting of authentick relations of confessions, and the lewd use made of them; including the Case of Miss Cadiere, with the Tryal of Father John-Baptist Girard her Confessor, before the Great Chamber of Parliament at Aix in France. To which is added, a signal cheat transacted by the Dominican fryars, as related by Dr. Burnet late Bishop of Sarum. Also the case of Abbee des Rues, now under confinement at Paris, for committing rapes upon 133 virgins. With the Case of Seduction stated at large in the Proceedings at Paris, from the several Depositions exhibited against him; with his Defence.
G. B.Date: [1732]- E-books
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The life and adventures of the Lady Lucy , the daughter of an Irish lord, who marry'd a German officer, and was by him carry'd into Flanders, where he became jealous of her and a young Nobleman his Kinsman, whom he kill'd, and afterwards left her wounded and big with Child in a Forest. Of The strange Adventures that befel both him and her afterwards, and the wonderful Manner in which they met again, after living eighteen Years asunder. By Mrs. Aubin.
Aubin, Penelope, 1679-1731.Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- E-books
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Contes, avantures, et faits singuliers, &c. Recueillis de M. l'abb�e Pr�evost. ..
Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- E-books
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The female Amazon, or a genuine accgunt [sic] of the most remarkable adventures, and complicated intrigues, displayed in the life of the celebrated and notorious Miss Fanny Davies, the Borough beauty. ... Embellished with a beautiful frontispiece. ... By Mr. Thompson, ..
Thompson, Mr., fl. 1786.Date: 1786- E-books
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The much esteemed history of the ever-famous knight Don Quixote de la Mancha Containing his many wonderful Adventures & Atchievements, Very Pleasant and Diverting. With the Comical Humours of Sancho Pancha, his Remarkable 'squire, &c. In Two Parts. Being an Entire History Of all the Memorable Transactions Recorded of them. Illustrated with Copper-Plates, representing, Eleven of the most Remarkable Passages in the History, curiously Engraven.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.Date: 1716