Fiction - Satire

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. It was his final collection...

When it was determined to extend the present edition of Fielding, not merely by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the three universally popular novels, but by two volumes of Miscellanies, there could be no doubt about at least one of the contents of...

From rock magazine articles to government reports, David Starkey's novel, Poor Ghost, is an unrelenting rollercoaster that follows one of America's most storied rock band.Author: David StarkeyISBN-10: 1684429730ISBN-13: 9781684429738Publisher: Keylight BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2024Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Award-winning writer of Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award, a 2019 Spur Award Finalist and an "Editor's Choice" by The Historical Novel SocietyThis modern-day, comic farce follows the convoluted paths of an ensemble cast of characters, who...

Decline and Fall is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales.Modest and unassuming theology student Paul Pennyfeather falls victim to the drunken antics of...

Oscar Wilde wrote a lot, from criticism, articles, and reviews to novels, poetry, short tales, plays, and even children's writing. Among them are two of his masterworks, masterpieces that won him awards and cemented his reputation as a writer. The Importance of Being Earnest,...

This classic dystopian satire has been compared to the likes of Brave New World, Gulliver's Travels and The Wizard of Oz. Voyage to Kazohinia is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here published in English for the first time outside of...

America is broken. The nation is in chaos. President John Henry governs the Red states, holding tight to his conservative, Christian dogma. An organization of Blue states, with New York Senator Eduardo Garcia at the helm, reject the federal government and move ever closer...

"1920 - Dips Into The Near Future" is a 1917 work by English economist John Atkinson Hobson. It contains a number of satirical writings that predict what life and the world will be life in 1920, just three years after the first publication of...

Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word gets out that he is ill, he finds himself surrounded by a throng of relatives that he despises, all hoping to...

The American dream is dead, and Los Angeles is burning. Stoned and porn-addicted surfer Baxter Kent is terrified of women and anxious to make things work with a sex robot. Acid junkie Arden Coover has a useless philosophy degree and a doomed relationship he...

Toby wasn't ready to die in 2008-and wake up in 2088. 2088 wasn't ready for Toby either. Gen-X computer hacker Toby is a classic American: impulsive, irreverent, intelligent, and inventive. And, after a silly accident in 2008, he can add "inanimate" to the list-because...

A Land of Darkness drowns in despair.It's called My Office. When I'm not typing manifests, I churn out fantasy books no-one reads.Less Young Adult, more MAD: Middle Aged Disappointment.So, when I'm gifted a magic book for Secret Santa, I can't believe my luck. One...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a compassionate satire on the 1930's society. Written by George Orwell, the book was first published in 1936 when the western world was still reeling from the devastation of the Great Depression and the Second World War was looming...

\'A **darkly funny** and **very readable **tale\' *Stylist* We've got the balance all wrong. Instead of living with our partners, struggling to do everything by ourselves and only seeing each other now and then, we should do it the other way round. We *should...

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy retreat center into the hot new self-care brand in this "wryly funny [and] fabulous debut novel" (The New York Times Book Review). "A satire both cutting and...

Volume 1. You Got Maled! Is a hilarious look into the world of online dating. A successful, young journalist narrates her true adventures as she goes through the crazy, funny, insane, and ridiculous world of online dating. Proving to all online that you are...

A Confederacy of Dunces meets The Player in an offbeat, sidesplittingly hilarious novel about making it against all odds in 1990s' Hollywood, by the co-writer/director of Dumb and Dumber. When Henry Halloran's girlfriend dumped him, his Boston-based life suddenly seemed pointless. He was thirty-two...

This wasn't your run-of-the-mill zombie apocalypse. The dead were digging their way out of their graves, but they weren't after brains. They wanted their homes and families and jobs back. Not that they would object to the occasional nice serving of brains, especially if...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the...

Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis, is largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure toward conformity. An immediate and controversial bestseller, Babbitt is one of Lewis's best-known novels and was influential in the...

This vintage book contains Jonathan Swift's 1704 satire, "A Tale of a Tub". The first major work that he wrote, it is a prose parody about two brothers who are each representative of the chief aspects of western Christianity. It mainly deals with the...

The Next Great Rock and Roll Novel On a September afternoon in Santa Barbara, a private jet carrying the members of Poor Ghost--one of America's most storied rock bands--plunges into the backyard of Caleb Crane, a retired insurance salesman. Still mourning his wife's death...

Being a billionaire boss was the only thing I needed to worry about apart from my children. Until I hired the sassy brunette as their temporary Nanny.I never expected to open up to anyone after my wife died. But the more I watched those...

It's 2024 and three-hundred-year-old Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Baron von Munchausen sits in a bar enjoying a glass of wine over a plate of kippers. The legendary spinner of tall tales and self-proclaimed "ambassador of the irrational" has just completed a whirlwind tour of America....

SATIRE Today is for the entertainment and enjoyment of those who still have a sense of humor.In our post-modern, post-Brexit, post-world-economic-crisis world, it seems it's all about shortages and deficiencies, isn't it? Water, food, housing, jobs - you name it, we don't have it....

The perfect antidote for Boomer, Millennial, and GenXYZ angst! Rectum Leviticus is an avowed nihilist. His name and unusual backstory propelled him to adopt an approach to life best characterized as, "I don't care because nothing really matters." This attitude has served him exceedingly...

About The Book"Budhoo and other short stories" is an anthology of short stories. It is not centered around a single theme, rather the treatise is very varied. The stories depict the Pakistani society in a unique way. You are sure to find satire, one...

New York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes, whose acclaimed YOU series inspired the hit show on Netflix, follows "addictively charming antihero" (The Washington Post) Joe Goldberg to the hallowed halls of Harvard, where he leaves crimson in his wake. "Twisted . . . delightfully...

With the razor-sharp satire that earned him rave reviews for Big Egos and Lucky Bastard, among others, S.G. Browne delivers another irresistible read, about an unlikely band of heroes who use their medical complications to gain fame, confront villains, and bring their own unique...

How far would you go to achieve the "American Dream?"Timothy and Cynthia Lawson are on their way to having it all. But when they move into their dream home on an idyllic cul-du-sac they soon start to realize that not everything is as it...

"Decline and Fall" is a satirical novel written by the English author Evelyn Waugh. It was first published in 1928 and is Waugh's first novel. The book is widely regarded as one of the classic works of 20th-century British literature and is known for...

A day in grocery retail is like a box of chocolates. You never know what situation you're going to be thrown into.At least that's how Lennox, the neighborhood grocery employee describes it. Throughout her career, she finds herself caught between corporate politics, demanding customers,...

Evelyn Waugh, an English author, first published his novel Decline and Fall in 1928. Decline and Fall was Waugh's first published novel; his previous attempt, The Temple at Thatch, was destroyed while still in manuscript form. Waugh's schooling at Lancing College, undergraduate years at...

An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble "Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how...

Broke, homeless, and addicted to chocolate will Sheryl dare to chase her dream or remain tied to her mother's purse strings? On the wrong side of thirty-five, Sheryl has lost her job, home, and the ability to say no to her mother. She is...

President Rex Funck is a loutish, lying old bully whose affairs have deeply hurt his stunning wife Natalia, a former model from Slovakia. Now he wants to get her pregnant so voters will see him as a macho stud and re-elect him in a...

Erewhon, set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon. In the sequel, narrated by his son John. Higgs returns to Erewhon and meets his former lover Yram, who is now the mother...

Zuleika Dobson is the granddaughter of the Warden of Judas College, Oxford. She is also a famed prestidigitator, with a somewhat lively reputation and questionable skill! However, she is one thing absolutely and without question: a beauty. Youths are reputed to have died for...

From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priestAt the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National...

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound...

Genius or fraud? Hack or Hemingway? The life and work of obese, obsessive, logorrheic pulp novelist Phoebus K. Dank have long enflamed bitter controversy--and numerous drunken rants often culminating in vomiting, unconsciousness, or both. In this uproarious novel, Christopher Miller pulls back the curtain...

Years of writing thoughtful, heartfelt literary fiction have brought Joe McElwee nothing but poverty and obscurity. Now his blockbuster formulaic thriller, full of mindless action and tired but proven tropes, has him on the verge of wealth and fame.Not everyone is happy though. Joe's...

Role Play is a fresh satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consciousness awakening.Vivian is a curator, not just at her gallery gig in Rio de Janeiro, but in every aspect of her life. Her apartment has...

Candide is the absurdly melodramatic story of a young man, Candide, living a sheltered life who clings desperately to "the best of all possible worlds," one which is abruptly interrupted by a series of painfully disillusioning events that set him off on a wide-ranging...

Instant Classic offers nine sardonic tales holding a carnival mirror to writers and stories. From a deal with the Devil to the ultimate AI vs human showdown, witness the terrifying spectacle of artists who'll do anything to clamber out of the creative trenches alive.Author:...

Decline and Fall is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales.Modest and unassuming theology student Paul Pennyfeather falls victim to the drunken antics of...

Author: Ben MarcusISBN-10: 1665132035ISBN-13: 9781665132039Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.77h x 5.35w x 0.63d

"Steve Minion is back! For Good. Mostly."Following the lead of Florence Nightingale, Steve's partner in Eternity, he has returned to Hell to ease the suffering of the Damned. Yet Steve is faced with a dilemma. What can he do that will offer more than...

From the author hailed by Newsweek as "a writer of great daring and skill to match" comes a brilliant, wholly original novel about the freedoms and imprisonments of desire. The Physics of Sunset is a spellbinding and fearlessly accurate portrait of the complex erotics...