Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of romance fiction .
71-500: The Famous Five is a series of children's adventure novels and short stories written by English author Enid Blyton . The first book, Five on a Treasure Island , was published in 1942. The novels feature the adventures of a group of young children – Julian, Dick, Anne, George and their dog Timmy. The vast majority of the stories take place in the children's school holidays. Each time they meet they get caught up in an adventure, often involving criminals or lost treasure. Sometimes
142-684: A Treasure Island , in 1957, and Five Have a Mystery to Solve , in 1964. Two of the Famous Five stories by Enid Blyton have been filmed by Danish director Katrine Hedman . The cast consisted of Danish actors and were originally released in Danish . Ove Sprogøe stars as Uncle Quentin. The movies are: De fem og spionerne [ da ] ( Five and the Spies ) (1969) and De 5 i fedtefadet ( Famous Five Get in Trouble ) (1970). All four of
213-649: A child readership. In the years after the First World War, writers such as Arthur Ransome developed the adventure genre by setting the adventure in Britain rather than distant countries, while Geoffrey Trease , Rosemary Sutcliff and Esther Forbes brought a new sophistication to the historical adventure novel. Modern writers such as Mildred D. Taylor ( Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ) and Philip Pullman (the Sally Lockhart novels) have continued
284-564: A comic strip-style illustration that sums up the main action in the text on the opposite page. The comics are one to three panels in length. Most of these illustrations are in black and white, but every so often there is a single-panel full-page colour illustration. However, later paperback editions published in the 1990s dispense with the comics and instead use black-and-white illustrations by Anne Bozellec. These illustrations only appear at intervals rather than on every second page. The paperback editions are also divided into chapters. A full list of
355-490: A common theme since the earliest days of written fiction. Indeed, the standard plot of Heliodorus, and so durable as to be still alive in Hollywood movies , a hero would undergo a first set of adventures before he met his lady. A separation would follow, with the second set of adventures leading to a final reunion. Variations kept the genre alive. From the mid-19th century onwards, when mass literacy grew, adventure became
426-491: A contrast to the brash and headstrong George. The seemingly perpetual youth of the Famous Five, who experience a world of apparently endless holidays while not ageing significantly, is known as a floating timeline . Floating timelines allow for an episodic series with no defined end-point, but at the expense of losing a sense of the characters growing up. J. K. Rowling commented of her Harry Potter series that she deliberately intended to avoid this in her writing: "in book four
497-413: A division of the giant French publishing house Hachette . Jean Sidobre illustrated the first 12 as well as the penultimate volume. Claude Pascal illustrated a further seven. Buci illustrated Les Cinq contre les fantômes and Anne-Claude Martin illustrated Les Cinq en Amazonie and Les Cinq contre le loup-garou . In the original hardback editions, the books do not have chapters, and every second page has
568-516: A five-part serial entitled The Famous Five Get Their Teeth Kicked In . The parody was based on the first book Five on a Treasure Island . The fourth short story in Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids by Jamie Rix is named "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping", which is about five children in 1952 on a picnic in Kent during the summer holidays. After their nap, the youngest wants an apple to eat so
639-517: A number of other series in similar style following groups of children discovering crime on holiday. By the end of 1953, more than six million copies had been sold. Today, more than two million copies of the books are sold each year, making them one of the best-selling series for children ever written, with sales totalling over a hundred million. All the novels have been adapted for television, and several have been adapted as films in various countries. Blyton's publisher, Hodder & Stoughton , first used
710-807: A popular subgenre of fiction. Although not exploited to its fullest, adventure has seen many changes over the years – from being constrained to stories of knights in armor to stories of high-tech espionage. Examples of that period include Sir Walter Scott , Alexandre Dumas, père , Jules Verne , the Brontë Sisters , Rudyard Kipling , Sir H. Rider Haggard , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Edgar Rice Burroughs , Victor Hugo , Emilio Salgari , Karl May , Louis Henri Boussenard , Thomas Mayne Reid , Sax Rohmer , A. Merritt , Talbot Mundy , Edgar Wallace , and Robert Louis Stevenson . Adventure novels and short stories were popular subjects for American pulp magazines , which dominated American popular fiction between
781-492: A prolific author, having written over 600 short stories for various French magazines, and about 400 stories for children. In the English-speaking world, she is best known for her continuation of Enid Blyton 's The Famous Five series of children's adventure novels. Claude Voilier was born Andrée Labedan around 1930. She wrote two popular novels for children, Le Manoir des cinq preux and Celle qu'on retrouva . She
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#1732790958250852-504: A reversal, George had married a series of wealthy men whom she cuckolded with, among others, one of her stepsons (her continuing penchant for bestiality with the latest Timmy is also implied); whereas Anne has become a strongly opinionated vegan spinster and is suspected by Dick of being a "dyke" – an accusation made against George by Toby in the original Five Go Mad in Dorset . George and Julian have been committed to an alcoholics' sanatorium,
923-471: A short story which parodies the writing style of Enid Blyton ; five children witness the collapse of Roman imperialism and their friends and family are slaughtered by 9000 invading Vikings . Website The Daily Mash reported a lost Blyton manuscript titled "Five Go Deporting Gypsies". A spoof series of five books written by Bruno Vincent was published in November 2016. The books are titled Five Give Up
994-563: A village shop. Unlike the books, the four children in the Comic Strip parody are all siblings, and none is the child of Aunt Fanny and Uncle Quentin. The series was revived in 2012 with Five Go to Rehab , with the original cast reprising their roles, now well into middle-age. Reuniting for Dick's birthday after decades apart, the four and Toby lament how their lives took unexpected paths while Dick drags them on another bicycle adventure, which he had meticulously planned for fourteen years. In
1065-602: Is Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn . Hodder Headline produced in the late 1990s audio dramas in English, which were published on audio cassette and CD . All 21 episodes of the original books were dramatised. The 21 original stories by Enid Blyton have been released in the 1970s as Fünf Freunde audio dramas in Germany as well. The speakers were the German dubbing artists for Gallagher, Thanisch, Russell and Harris,
1136-527: Is a descendant of Timmy. The new series was first announced in 2005, and is a co-production of Chorion (which currently owns all Famous Five rights) and Marathon , in association with France 3 and The Disney Channel . Disney confirmed their involvement in December 2006. Stories were developed by Douglas Tuber and Tim Maile , who have previously written for Lizzie McGuire . Chorion claims on its website that "these new programmes will remain faithful to
1207-603: Is given below: 1. The Famous Five and the Stately Homes Gang (first published by Knight Books in 1981; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five and the Stately Homes Gang ) 2. The Famous Five and the Mystery of the Emeralds (first published by Knight Books in 1981; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five and the Mystery of the Emeralds ) 3. The Famous Five and
1278-469: Is revealed that Julian has gone on to a career as a smuggler and regularly has to deal with copycat groups of children trying to thwart his plans. George is a happily married mother, Dick has gone to live in a commune in America, and Anne has just been released from prison having murdered a man with a ginger beer bottle. Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls features "The Famous Five Go Pillaging", –
1349-860: The English Association has noted that the children "are allowed to go off on their own to an extent that today would contravene the Child Protection Act (1999) and interest Social Services ." The books are written in a nostalgic style even for the time they were written, avoiding reference to specific political events or technological developments. Cash noted that the characters do not watch television apart from one appearance in 1947, or even make much use of radios, despite George's father's work presumably involving advanced technology. The books have been criticised for being repetitive, with repeated use of stock elements such as obnoxious, unfriendly people who turn out to be criminals and
1420-651: The Progressive Era and the 1950s. Several pulp magazines such as Adventure , Argosy , Blue Book , Top-Notch , and Short Stories specialized in this genre. Notable pulp adventure writers included Edgar Rice Burroughs , Talbot Mundy , Theodore Roscoe , Johnston McCulley , Arthur O. Friel , Harold Lamb , Carl Jacobi , George F. Worts , Georges Surdez , H. Bedford-Jones , and J. Allan Dunn . Adventure fiction often overlaps with other genres, notably war novels , crime novels , detective novels , sea stories , Robinsonades , spy stories (as in
1491-472: The parody Five Go Mad in Dorset (1982) and its 1983 sequel Five Go Mad on Mescalin , both produced by The Comic Strip , in which the characters express sympathies with Nazi Germany and opposition to the Welfare State , homosexuals, immigrants and Jews, in an extremely broad parody not so much of Blyton but of views perceived to be common in the 1950s. The parodies were deliberately set towards
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#17327909582501562-587: The 1978 television series was published in Look-in magazine from 1978 to 1980. Six comic albums drawn by Bernard Dufossé and scripted by Serge Rosenzweig and Rafael Carlo Marcello were released in France between 1982 and 1986, under the title Le Club des Cinq . Most of comic books in the series are based on Famous Five books created by Claude Voilier . Books were released by Hachette Livre . The first three of these volumes have also been released in English, under
1633-778: The Blue Bear Mystery ) 15. Les Cinq aux rendez-vous du diable (1978; English title: The Famous Five in Deadly Danger ) 16. Du neuf pour les Cinq (1978; English title: The Famous Five and the Strange Legacy ) 17. Les Cinq et le trésor de Roquépine (1979; English title: The Famous Five and the Knights' Treasure ) 18. Les Cinq et le diamant bleu (1979; reprinted in 1980 as Les Cinq et le rubis d'Akbar ; never translated into English) 19. Les Cinq jouent serré (1980; English title: The Famous Five and
1704-517: The Blue Bear Mystery ) 9. The Famous Five and the Inca God (first published by Knight Books in 1984; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five and the Inca God ) 10. The Famous Five and the Cavalier's Treasure (first published by Knight Books in 1984; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five and the Cavalier's Treasure ) 11. The Famous Five and
1775-773: The Booze , Five Go Gluten Free , Five Go On A Strategy Away Day , Five Go Parenting and Five on Brexit Island . Vincent went on to write several more titles in the series: Five at the Office Christmas Party , Five Get Gran Online , Five Get On the Property Ladder , Five Go Bump in the Night , Five Escape Brexit Island , Five Get Beach Body Ready , Five Lose Dad in the Garden Centre , and Five Forget Mother's Day . Adventure fiction In
1846-614: The French-speaking parts of Europe) and later translated into English. The Voilier titles are: In Germany, two books came out with a questionable author. The titles are: Although Enid Blyton is named as author on the cover, the books were most likely written by German author Brigitte Blobel, who is credited as the translator. The books were recalled after the first edition owing to copyright issues, and are now rare and high-priced collector's items. The Children's Film Foundation made two films based on Famous Five books: Five on
1917-701: The Golden Galleon ) 6. The Famous Five Versus the Black Mask (first published by Knight Books in 1982; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five Versus the Black Mask ) 7. The Famous Five in Fancy Dress (first published by Knight Books in 1983; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five in Fancy Dress ) 8. The Famous Five and the Blue Bear Mystery (first published by Knight Books in 1983; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five and
1988-706: The Hijackers ) 14. The Famous Five and the Strange Scientist (first published by Knight Books in 1985; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1994 as The Five and the Strange Scientist ) 15. The Famous Five in Deadly Danger (first published by Knight Books in 1985; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1994 as The Five in Deadly Danger ) 16. The Famous Five and the Knight's Treasure (first published by Knight Books in 1986; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1994 as The Five and
2059-715: The Inca God ) 10. Les Cinq se mettent en quatre (1975; English title: The Famous Five and the Pink Pearls ) 11. Les Cinq dans la cité secrète (1976; English title: The Famous Five and the Secret of the Caves ) 12. La fortune sourit aux Cinq (1976; English title: The Famous Five and the Cavalier's Treasure ) 13. Les Cinq et le rayon Z (1977; English title: The Famous Five and the Z-Rays ) 14. Les Cinq vendent la peau de l'ours (1977; English title: The Famous Five and
2130-625: The Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction , Critic Don D'Ammassa defines the genre as follows: .. An adventure is an event or series of events that happens outside the course of the protagonist's ordinary life, usually accompanied by danger, often by physical action. Adventure stories almost always move quickly, and the pace of the plot is at least as important as characterization, setting, and other elements of creative work. D'Ammassa argues that adventure stories make
2201-541: The Missing Cheetah (first published by Knight Books in 1981; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five and the Missing Cheetah ) 4. The Famous Five Go on Television (first published by Knight Books in 1981; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five Go on Television ) 5. The Famous Five and the Golden Galleon (first published by Knight Books in 1982; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1993 as The Five and
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2272-487: The Missing Cheetah ) 5. Les Cinq à la Télévision (1973; English title: The Famous Five Go on Television ) 6. Les Cinq et les pirates du ciel (1973; English title: The Famous Five and the Hijackers ) 7. Les Cinq contre le masque noir (1974; English title: The Famous Five Versus the Black Mask ) 8. Les Cinq et le galion d'or (1974; English title: The Famous Five and the Golden Galleon ) 9. Les Cinq font de la brocante (1975; English title: The Famous Five and
2343-527: The New Forest (1847), and Harriet Martineau's The Peasant and the Prince (1856). The Victorian era saw the development of the genre, with W. H. G. Kingston , R. M. Ballantyne , and G. A. Henty specializing in the production of adventure fiction for boys. This inspired writers who normally catered to adult audiences to essay such works, such as Robert Louis Stevenson writing Treasure Island for
2414-493: The Strange Legacy (first published by Knight Books in 1984; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1994 as The Five and the Strange Legacy ) 12. The Famous Five and the Secret of the Caves (first published by Knight Books in 1984; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1994 as The Five and the Secret of the Caves ) 13. The Famous Five and the Hijackers (first published by Knight Books in 1985; later republished by Hodder and Stoughton in 1994 as The Five and
2485-540: The Strange Scientist ) 20. Les Cinq en croisière (1980; never translated into English) 21. Les Cinq contre les fantômes (1981; never translated into English) 22. Les Cinq en Amazonie (1983; never translated into English) 23. Les Cinq et le trésor du pirate (1984; never translated into English) 24. Les Cinq contre le loup-garou (1985; never translated into English) 18 of the titles were translated into English by Anthea Bell and published in paperback by Knight Books. They were subsequently published again in
2556-610: The adaptation of Five on a Treasure Island was released on DVD in the UK. A new Famous Five animated TV series began airing in 2008. Famous 5: On the Case is set in modern times and features the children of the original Famous Five: Max (the son of Julian and Brandine), Dylan (son of Dick and Michelle), Jo (daughter of George and Ravi – a tomboy who, like her mother, prefers a shorter name to her given name Jyoti) and Allie (daughter of Anne and John). It has not been stated whether their dog
2627-575: The children decide to steal from a nearby orchard, but they are caught by the owner, who is armed with a shotgun . It was later adapted for the Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids cartoon, which aired on CITV in 2000. A 2005 story in The Guardian also parodies the Famous Five. It argues that Anne, Dick, George and Julian are caricatures rather than characters, portraying Anne as having no life outside of domestic labour. It highlights what
2698-402: The discovery of a secret passageway . Blyton wrote rapidly and could finish a book in a week, which meant that unlike other book series of the period, such as Nancy Drew or The Hardy Boys , she was able to maintain control of her creations and write all the stories in a series herself. The treatment of girls in the books provides a contrast, with Anne, the youngest and most fragile character,
2769-530: The early 1990s by Hodder and Stoughton . The Hodder editions have slightly revised titles; instead of e.g. "The Famous Five and the Strange Legacy", the Hodder editions say "The Five and the Strange Legacy" etc., which is closer to the original French. The formatting is rather different from the French series (at least, from the original hardback versions on which the translations are almost certainly based), in that
2840-426: The element of danger the focus; hence he argues that Charles Dickens 's novel A Tale of Two Cities is an adventure novel because the protagonists are in constant danger of being imprisoned or killed, whereas Dickens's Great Expectations is not because "Pip's encounter with the convict is an adventure, but that scene is only a device to advance the main plot, which is not truly an adventure." Adventure has been
2911-407: The end of the original Famous Five "era" (1942–63) so as to make the point that the books were already becoming outmoded while they were still being written. Both parodies made use of Famous Five set pieces, such as the surrender of the criminals at the end when Julian states "We're the Famous Five!", the arrival of the police just in the nick of time, and the appeal for "some of your home-made ices" at
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2982-521: The film and TV rights to the books, while Five Have Plenty of Fun did not fit in the production schedule. Due to the success of the series, Southern Television were keen to make another season of episodes, but the Enid Blyton estate forbade them to create original stories. The 1978 series was originally released on video by Portman Productions with reasonable regularity between 1983 and 1999, many of which are still easy to find second-hand, although
3053-840: The films have been released on DVD in their respective countries. In Germany, a series of movies have been released: The Famous Five television series was produced by Southern Television and Portman Productions for ITV in the UK, in 26 episodes of thirty minutes (including time for advertisements). It starred Michele Gallagher as Georgina, Marcus Harris as Julian, Jennifer Thanisch as Anne, Gary Russell as Dick, Toddy Woodgate as Timmy, Michael Hinz as Uncle Quentin and Sue Best as Aunt Fanny. It also starred Ronald Fraser , John Carson , Patrick Troughton , James Villiers , Cyril Luckham and Brian Glover . The screenplays were written by Gloria Tors, Gail Renard , Richard Carpenter and Richard Sparks. The episodes were directed by Peter Duffell , Don Leaver, James Gatward and Mike Connor. The series
3124-458: The hero within the setting. With a few notable exceptions (such as Baroness Orczy , Leigh Brackett and Marion Zimmer Bradley ) adventure fiction as a genre has been largely dominated by male writers, though female writers are now becoming common. Adventure stories written specifically for children began in the 19th century. Early examples include Johann David Wyss 's The Swiss Family Robinson (1812), Frederick Marryat's The Children of
3195-495: The hormones are going to kick in – I don't want him stuck in a state of permanent pre-pubescence like poor Julian in the Famous Five!" Blyton also wrote a number of short stories featuring the characters, which were collected together in 1995 as Five Have a Puzzling Time, and Other Stories . There are also books written originally in French by Claude Voilier (the Five have long been extremely popular in translation - by Voilier - in
3266-471: The latter owes a large debt to African gangsters, and Anne recently served a prison sentence for setting her nanny aflame. Robbie Coltrane reprised both of his roles. Five Go to Rehab utilises a form of a floating timeline ; although the original films' events are said to have taken place thirty years in the past and "five years after the war ", the reunion film appears to be set approximately contemporaneous to its filming. Parodies began early: in 1964, only
3337-436: The leads of the first television series. For the sequels (not written by Blyton and decidedly more "modern" action-oriented stories) the speakers were replaced by younger ones, because it was felt that they sounded too mature. In addition to the original Blyton books, another 110+ stories have subsequently been released and published as radio plays and more than 30 books different from the radioplays in Germany. They are based on
3408-581: The name Famous Five . The titles included "Famous Five and the Golden Galleon" (which featured a sunken ship that was laden with gold with the Five fending off villains seeking to make off with the gold, "Famous Five and the Treasure of the Templars", where it transpires that Kirrin Castle is actually a Templar Castle that houses their hidden treasure which the Five ultimately secure with the help of members of
3479-461: The order, and "Famous Five and the Inca God" which was set in an antiquities museum and dealt with the theft of an Incan fetish. Beginning in September 1985 a series of monthly Comic Magazine titles Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine were published. Each issue published a full length illustrative comic book story adapted from Famous 5 Novels. The series came to end in the 1990s. The Five inspired
3550-423: The original French series follows below: 1. Les Cinq sont les plus forts (1971; English title: The Famous Five and the Mystery of the Emeralds ) 2. Les Cinq au bal des espions (1971; English title: The Famous Five in Fancy Dress ) 3. Le Marquis appelle les Cinq (1972; English title: The Famous Five and the Stately Homes Gang ) 4. Les Cinq au Cap des tempêtes (1972; English title: The Famous Five and
3621-447: The original books. Of the juvenile actors the best known is probably Jemima Rooper , who played George. Julian was portrayed by Marco Williamson , Dick by Paul Child , and Anne by Laura Petela. In this series, because of the slang meaning of the word fanny, Aunt Fanny, played by Mary Waterhouse, was known as Aunt Frances. (In some but not all recent reprints of the book, the character has been re-christened Aunt Franny.) The 1995 series
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#17327909582503692-457: The original books. They were issued in plastic wallets with accessories such as maps, dice and codebooks. The gamebooks were titled as follows: The second series, written by Mary Danby , was entitled "The Famous Five and You". These consisted of abridged versions of the original text, with additional text for the alternative story routes. The books in this series were based on the first six original Famous Five books: A weekly comic strip based on
3763-434: The original characters, but written by various German writers. A 1997 musical was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Enid Blyton's birth with the title The Famous Five and later released on DVD as The Famous Five – Smuggler's Gold – The Musical . Principal actors: Elizabeth Marsland, Lyndon Ogbourne, Matthew Johnson, Vicky Taylor, Jon Lee , Director: Roz Storey and also in the five A brand new musical adaptation
3834-585: The scene is set close to George's family home at Kirrin Cottage, such as the picturesque Kirrin Island, owned by George and her family in Kirrin Bay. George's own home and various other houses the children visit or stay in are hundreds of years old and often contain secret passages or smugglers ' tunnels. In some books the children go camping in the countryside, on a hike or holiday together elsewhere. However,
3905-465: The screen on every episode. The same company released the DVD set in the UK (without the non-removable subtitles) on 25 June 2012. A four DVD set containing all 26 episodes, without additional content, was released for region 4 (Australia and New Zealand) in late 2011, as Enid Blyton's The Famous Five: The Complete Collection . (The Finnish punk band Widows (of Helsinki) made three different cover versions of
3976-433: The settings are almost always rural and enable the children to discover the simple joys of cottages, islands, the English and Welsh countryside and sea shores, as well as an outdoor life of picnics, bicycle trips and swimming. Blyton intended to write only six or eight books in the series, but owing to their high sales and immense commercial success she went on to write twenty-one full-length Famous Five novels, as well as
4047-402: The sound and picture quality is not always what it could be. A four-disc DVD collection, containing 23 of the 26 episodes produced for the 1978 series (and two episodes from the 1996 series) was released in region 4 (Australia and New Zealand) in 2005. The box and disc art identify it as a release of the 1996 series. (The distributor had licensed the 1996 series, but due to an administrative glitch
4118-428: The term "The Famous Five" in 1951, after nine books in the series had been published. Before this, the series was referred to as The 'Fives' Books . Blyton was a nature writer early in her career, and the books are strongly atmospheric, with a detailed but idealised presentation of the rural landscape. The books present children exploring this landscape without parental supervision as natural and normal. Pete Cash of
4189-497: The theme song, the first in early 1979, as did the Irish indie outfit Fleur, in 1996.) A later series, The Famous Five , initiated by Victor Glynn of Portman Zenith was aired first in 1995, a co-production between a number of companies including Tyne Tees Television , HTV , Zenith North and the German channel ZDF . Unlike the previous TV series, this set the stories in the 1950s, around when they were written. It dramatised all
4260-494: The themes of mystery and adventure central to Enid Blyton's classic series of books." A total of 26 episodes, each 22 minutes long, were produced. On 26 June 2023, the BBC announced that filming has begun on a new adaptation of The Famous Five, in co-production with the German channel ZDF . The series will comprise three episodes, each 90 minutes long, and will aim to bring the stories to a "progressive new audience". The series creator
4331-623: The tradition of the historical adventure. The modern children's adventure novel sometimes deals with controversial issues like terrorism ( Robert Cormier , After the First Death (1979)) and warfare in the Third World ( Peter Dickinson , AK (1990)). Claude Voilier Claude Voilier (9 November 1917 – 22 May 2009) was a French teacher, journalist, translator (especially of popular English children's series such as The Three Investigators and The Dana Girls into French), and
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#17327909582504402-417: The translated versions have chapters. The Knight editions also have a number of illustrations that are loosely based on the French style. They are full-page, in black and white and have one or two panels. They are not as ubiquitous as in the French versions however, and are not really in a true comic-strip style. Illustrations were omitted entirely from the Hodder editions. A complete list of the English titles
4473-406: The works of John Buchan , Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming ), science fiction , fantasy , ( Robert E. Howard and J. R. R. Tolkien both combined the secondary world story with the adventure novel) and Westerns . Not all books within these genres are adventures. Adventure fiction takes the setting and premise of these other genres, but the fast-paced plot of an adventure focuses on the actions of
4544-438: The writer, Lucy Mangan , considers to be the power struggle between Dick, George and Julian while Anne is sidelined. On 31 October 2009, the BBC programme The Impressions Show featured a sketch in which Ross Kemp meets The Famous Five. It was a parody of his Sky One show, Ross Kemp on Gangs . British comedian John Finnemore did a radio sketch in which Julian and George run into each other as adults and reminisce. It
4615-486: The year after the last book was published, John Lennon in his work In His Own Write had the short story The Famous Five through Woenow Abbey . Amidst a plethora of deliberate misspellings, he lists ten members of the Five, and a dog named Cragesmure. Viz comic has parodied the series' style of writing and type of stories on a number of occasions. In the late eighties, Australian comedy team The D-Generation parodied The Famous Five on their breakfast radio show as
4686-401: Was a major reason why she was asked to continue the series. [1] The numbering of the English translations is quite different from the French order. There follows a list of the original French series, with English titles where applicable. The 18 English titles will then be listed in their series order. The original French Famous Five series by Claude Voilier was published by Bibliothèque Rose,
4757-515: Was living in Arcachon (Gironde), France, at the time of her death in May 2009. Starting from the early 1970s, and continuing up to the mid-1980s, Voilier wrote a series of books based on Enid Blyton 's Famous Five series. The series comprises 24 books, 18 of which have been translated into English by Anthea Bell . Voilier had translated some of the later Blyton Famous Five books into French, and this
4828-476: Was premièred at the Tabard Theatre on 8 December 2009 and played until 10 January 2010. Two sets of gamebooks in a Choose Your Own Adventure style have been published. These books involve reading small sections of print and being given two or more options to follow, with a different page number for each option. The first series of these, written by Stephen Thraves , featured stories loosely based on
4899-530: Was produced by Don Leaver and James Gatward. Most of the outdoor filming was done in the New Forest and parts of Dorset and Devon .The series was set in the present day, fifteen years after Blyton's last novel in the series. Of the original 21 novels, three were not adapted for this series; Five on a Treasure Island and Five Have a Mystery to Solve because the Children's Film Foundation still own
4970-563: Was released in its entirety on VHS video. A three-disc DVD collection, containing 13 of the 26 episodes of the 1995 series, was released in Australia and New Zealand in 2005, and is marked "Revised Edition" to avoid confusion with the previous release of the 1979 series with 1995 artwork. A complete edition of the series was released on DVD in Australia and New Zealand in 2016. Other episodes have reportedly been released on DVD in Europe, but only
5041-464: Was supplied with master tapes and artwork for the 1978 series.) The error was corrected in a later release. A seven-DVD set containing the entire series and extensive bonus material was released in October 2010 in Germany by Koch Media; although there was an option to choose either the original English or German dubbed versions, the English version had non-removable German subtitles across the bottom of
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