Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
2,230-word summary · 10 min read
classics + coming of age
17 books tagged both “classics” and “coming of age”.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift her out.
2,485-word summary · 11 min read
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
2,543-word summary · 11 min read
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou recalls Stamps, St Louis and San Francisco, from childhood silence after trauma to voice through books and work.
2,607-word summary · 12 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
Great Expectations
Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.
2,117-word summary · 9 min read
Siddhartha
A Brahmin son leaves home to find peace beyond teachers and rules.
1,933-word summary · 9 min read
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery brings talkative Anne Shirley to Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, where mistakes, school rivalries, and fierce friendship slowly turn…
2,182-word summary · 10 min read
The Bell Jar
Esther Greenwood wins a New York internship that should feel bright, then sinks into depression at home. Plath's 1963 novel follows her breakdown, treatment,…
2,504-word summary · 11 min read
Ender's Game
Ender Wiggin trains at Battle School to fight the Formics, winning games that turn out to be real.
2,039-word summary · 9 min read
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre retold: Lowood, Thornfield, the attic secret, and Jane's refusal to shrink.
2,325-word summary · 10 min read
Little Women
Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.
2,487-word summary · 11 min read