Topic
Satire.
Fiction
Sketches New and Old
A collection of Mark Twain's short comic pieces and sketches, ranging from tall tales to satire, showcasing the wit, mischief, and sharp social observation that made him America's
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Fiction
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Melville’s final novel turns a Mississippi steamboat into a shifting satire of trust, fraud, charity, and self-invention.
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Classics
The Satyricon — Complete
Petronius's outrageous, fragmentary Roman satire of appetite and excess, following disreputable wanderers through a vivid, decadent world of the early empire.
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History
Comic History of the United States
Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.
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Classics
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais's riotous Renaissance saga of two giants — a torrent of comedy, satire, learning and appetite that celebrates the body, the mind and the freedom of laughter.
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Classics
Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope's beloved comedy of clerical politics, where a new bishop, his formidable wife, and an oily chaplain upend the quiet cathedral town of Barchester.
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Drama
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw's sharp, funny drama of a phonetics professor who wagers he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess by remaking her speech.
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Classics
Candide
Voltaire's Candide is a brisk Enlightenment satire that follows its battered hero across wars, disasters, and absurd philosophies while dismantling easy optimism.
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Classics
Complete Short Works of George Meredith
A gathering of the shorter fiction of George Meredith, the Victorian novelist and poet known for his psychological subtlety and glittering, demanding prose.
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Essays
Love and Freindship [sic]
Jane Austen, barely a teenager, takes a scalpel to the sentimental novel.
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Classics
Don Juan
The legendary seducer reimagined as the hero of a sprawling, satirical verse epic.
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Adventure
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is a witty, inventive classic that blends time travel, satire, adventure, and social criticism.
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Adventure
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
Jonathan Swift's classic satire following Lemuel Gulliver to lands of miniature people, giants, deranged intellectuals, and rational horses.
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Essays
A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or countr
Jonathan Swift's ferocious 1729 satire, straight-faced and monstrous, coolly proposing that the poor of Ireland sell their children as food.
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Classics
Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens's great comic satire on selfishness and greed.
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