I have to read the rest…

Fourteen excerpts from timeless classics that are sure to make you want to read the originals.

Title: Classic Adventure Stories. Photo: Special Arrangement

Who doesn't love adventures? Reading a good adventure story gives you wings of imagination, so you will be involved completely, being the character or tagging along with the character, doing heroic deeds, escaping disasters and vanquishing the enemy.

The traditional classics had novelists penning stories that were mostly adventures. People at that time didn't have much entertainment like now and reading novels was a great pastime. Also those were days of explorations and discovery, and novelists inspired by these, brought them out in their plots. Such stories has the power to stand the test of time and even now when we read them we are completely absorbed in the story.

Classic Adventure Stories from Scholastic has brought out 14 thrilling stories to capture your imagination. They are excerpts from famous novels written by novelists. The excerpts are cleverly chosen as they have the ability to whet the appetite of the reader, and the next thing the reader wants to do is to reach out and read the whole book, which will be a wonderful opportunity.

Excerpts are taken from

Robinson Crusoe, Kim, The Scarlet Pimpernal, Treasure Island, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Count of Monte Cristo, King Solomon's Mines, The Invisible Man, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Moby Dick, Great Expectations, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Wuthering Heights, and The Children of the New Forest .

Check out “The Cemetery of Chateau d'lf the excerpt from The Count of Monte Cristo . Edmond Dantes a young sailor, who has been imprisoned in the Chateau for 18 years, plans a meticulous and daring escape. He pretends to be the corpse of his friend and plans out how he would dig himself out from the grave he is to be buried in. But what exactly is the cemetery of the Chateau d'lf?

Hunts are described in great detail setting hearts pounding. “Stubbs kills a Whale” from

Moby Dick is one such but finally why do you feel dejected?

To feel the power of these timeless classics, it's best to read the book and then inevitably reach out for more…

CLASSIC ADVENTURE STORIES, Scholastic, Rs. 150