Heart of Darkness
Marlow pilots a steamer up the Congo for a trading company and seeks Kurtz, the brilliant agent who stopped sending ivory and started sending reports no one…
2,315-word summary · 10 min read
adventure + classics
28 books tagged both “adventure” and “classics”.
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Moby-Dick
Ishmael ships with Queequeg on the Pequod as Ahab hunts the white whale.
2,198-word summary · 10 min read
The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis's Narnia origin story retold: Digory and Polly, the Wood between the Worlds, the waking of Jadis in Charn, Aslan's singing creation, and the apple…
2,528-word summary · 11 min read
Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins finds Flint's map, sails with Squire Trelawney's crew that hides pirates, and learns Long John Silver is both cook, friend, and mutineer.
2,179-word summary · 10 min read
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer skips school, chases Becky Thatcher and sees Injun Joe kill in a graveyard on the Mississippi.
3,439-word summary · 15 min read
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantes escapes Chateau d'If and returns as the Count to repay friends and ruin betrayers.
3,879-word summary · 17 min read
The Odyssey
Homer's Odyssey in Fagles translation: Odysseus fights home past Cyclops, Circe, and Sirens while Telemachus seeks news and Penelope stalls suitors in Ithaca.…
2,504-word summary · 11 min read
The Princess Bride
Buttercup loses Westley to pirates and is forced to marry Prince Humperdinck in Florin.
3,412-word summary · 15 min read
The Return of the King
Frodo and Sam reach Mount Doom while Aragorn claims Gondor and Pippin and Merry fight at Minas Tirith.
3,341-word summary · 15 min read
The Two Towers
Frodo and Sam crawl toward Mordor with Gollum while Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli chase orcs across Rohan.
2,284-word summary · 10 min read
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck Finn fakes his death, floats the Mississippi with the runaway Jim, and tears up the letter that would betray him. Twain's river classic, its cons and…
2,605-word summary · 12 min read
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring retold: Frodo's flight, Strider, Moria, Lothlorien, and the breaking of the Fellowship.
2,315-word summary · 10 min read