By comparing and contrasting these two adventure novels, readers can learn how the authors affected the future of the action-adventure genre of literature. ... "One subgenre of adventure fiction thematizing freedom of movement as the freedom of the seas is the eighteenth century genre of the maritime picaresque that Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" helped launch,"(Cohen, 2009). ... These two novels are brilliant examples of the emergence of the action-adventure genre of stories. They share many of their themes perhaps because the themes themselves are descriptive of the genre. ... I...

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