The great adventure

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The big adventure was a series of the Austrian Book Club of Youth , published by Verlag Jugend und Volk . In the format of the popular booklet novels , this edition belongs to the so-called good youth literature . These booklets were published by various organizations, especially in Austria and Switzerland , in order to form a counterpart to the normal " junk booklets ".

Intention of this series

According to the publisher, this series was intended for a rather young audience. After climbing the golden ladder , this row was reached. Here, with good literature, but with much more adventurous material, the reader was led further away from those novels that were regarded as trash.

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  • Thomas König: Geisterwald catalog. Bibliography of the German booklet novels . König, Berlin 2000-2001.
  • Manfred Pilz: Catalog of the Austrian booklets from 1876 to today . Pollischansky, Vienna 1995–2000