Candide
Voltaire's Candide follows a sheltered boy across earthquakes, wars, and Eldorado as his tutor's sunny optimism falls apart. Short, savage, and still funny.
2,614-word summary · 12 min read
adventure + satire
4 books tagged both “adventure” and “satire”.
Don Quixote
A poor gentleman maddened by knight romances rides out as Don Quixote with Sancho Panza, until the world answers back.
3,785-word summary · 17 min read
Gulliver's Travels
A ship's surgeon meets tiny Lilliputians, giant Brobdingnagians, Laputa's projectors, and rational horses in Swift's 1726 satire.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
The Color of Magic
A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos.
2,032-word summary · 9 min read