Social Satire.

Emma Woodhouse, convinced of her matchmaking prowess, navigates the social intricacies of Highbury with wit and charm—until her meddling unravels unexpected consequences.

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Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.

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Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims ride toward Canterbury, swapping stories that argue, tease and confess.

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Tobias Smollett's comic epistolary masterpiece sends a cantankerous squire and his household on a rollicking tour of eighteenth-century Britain, told through their clashing letters

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Rudyard Kipling's early stories capture British India in swift, knowing sketches of soldiers, officials and lovers, revealing a young writer's dazzling ear for the ironies of colon

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Two women, one scheming and one sweet, make their way through a glittering, mercenary society during the Napoleonic era.

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Jane Austen's sly early novella, told entirely in letters, follows a beautiful, scheming widow as she manipulates suitors and society, giving Austen her most deliciously wicked her

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