Fiction - Satire

Author: Sead MahmutefendicISBN-10: 1499091621ISBN-13: 9781499091625Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2014Pages: 116Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

The Gilded Age is a fascinating collaboration featuring Mark Twain, who is easily one of the United States' most powerful and enduring authors. Full of wit and important truths about life, The Gilded Age remains a classic worth reading.Author: Charles Dudley Warner, Mark TwainISBN-10:...

One of Sinclair Lewis's most well-known works and an enduring classic, Babbitt is well worth taking the time to pick up and read.Author: Sinclair LewisISBN-10: 1496034988ISBN-13: 9781496034984Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2014Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.32dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.8Point...

Emile Zola was a French writer who was a very important contributor to literary naturalism. Zola's book Therese Raquin is about a young woman who is unhappily married to her cousin.Author: Edward Vizetelly, Emile ZolaISBN-10: 1494756420ISBN-13: 9781494756420Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2013Pages: 130Format:...

May 2012-Athens is rocked by riots as the Greek economy tanks. The International Monetary Fund warns Greece to clean up corruption. In Geneva, hedge fund investor Jim Schiller bets billions on a bail-out of Greek bonds. What secrets threaten the bail-out? Jim wonders. To...

Step out of your ordinary life and into the glamorous world of the superrich, where luxury, leisure, and excess can be found around every exquisitely decorated corner, and so too can betrayal, secrecy, and deception. From within the home of an incredibly wealthy, prominent...

Young Huck Finn has no mother and his father is a brutal drunkard. To escape his father's cruel tyranny he fakes his own death and runs away. As a homeless waif he travels along the Mississippi Valley by foot and by raft encountering a...

In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against the Chinese. When Bird fails to uncover an authentic reason to slander the nation,...

Roman thought he'd found the perfect opportunity to rebel. He may have been wrong. He awakens strapped to a set of parallel bars in a richly appointed sitting room, and begins a conversation with a masked man which will change his life. His world...

Roman thought he'd found the perfect opportunity to rebel. He may have been wrong. He awakens strapped to a set of parallel bars in a richly appointed sitting room, and begins a conversation with a masked man which will change his life. His world...

A humorous novel in the style of a biography.Author: Laurence SterneISBN-10: 1507829698ISBN-13: 9781507829691Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2015Pages: 438Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.97d

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Edward Vizetelly, Emile ZolaISBN-10: 1502550296ISBN-13: 9781502550293Publisher: Createspace...

"An incredibly interesting work." --Jane Smiley "A straight up masterwork." --Sarah Silverman "Blisteringly funny." --Corey Seymour "A transcendent apocalyptic satire." --Michael Silverblatt "Crackling with life." --Paul Theroux "Great fun." --Salman Rushdie "A provocative debut." --Kirkus Reviews From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes...

Soon to be a major motion picture A Little White Lie starring Michael Shannon and Kate Hudson! In this charming, clever, and darkly satiric novel set at a writers' conference, one man finds himself caught in a whirlwind of literary pretention, a suspect in...

This story is about a handsome young vegan writer who kills animal abusers. A very fun book that provides in a fun way some of the views that I hold very important. This book DOES contain explicit content including drug use, sex and violence....

This edition is written in bold and font size 24. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is written in vernacular English, reflecting its setting in the southern United States. Its coarse language, including racial slurs, has caused much debate over the years, though the book,...

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a woman was abused, humiliated and abandoned by her...

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an English poet best known for his satirical verse and use of the heroic couplet. Some of Pope's most popular works include his essay on criticism as well as the poems The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad.Author: Alexander...

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is set against the backdrop of 1890s New York upper-class society, written in the style of a novel of manners.Wharton places her tragic heroine, Lily Bart, in a society that she describes as a "hot-house of traditions...

Independent, beautiful, and sharpminded, Emma Woodhouse loves to interfere in the romances of those she holds dear, but her meddlesome ways often land her in many comically tight spots. When Emma's close friend and trusted companion, Miss Taylor, marries a neighbouring widower, the wealthy...

A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America. From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's...

A New York Times Editors' Choice "This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best...

First published in 1920, "Main Street" is a biting and satirical look at small town America. Set in the 1910s it follows the struggles of its heroine, Carol Milford, to adapt to small town life. Carol, a young and progressive librarian living in St...

Book Three of the award-winning sci-fi comedy series! A wise tiger once said that you should never shift on a world that you don't want to inhabit for the rest of your life. Good advice, especially when visiting a jungle planet full of lizard...

Book Two of the award-winning sci-fi comedy series! Max's misadventure through the multiverse continues, this time with more snark. Ross, Zoey, and Perra return for another wild romp, along with several new faces that only a mother could love. Having survived a perilous plunge...

Outstanding Humor Novel: 2019 IAN Book of the Year AwardsGold Medalist: 2019 Readers' Favorite Book AwardsSometimes all a fallen goddess needs to regain her power is a trusty sword and a worldwide zombie apocalypse...Athena's had a rough eighteen months. Formerly goddess of wisdom, battle,...

In a road trip tour-de-force, beginning in Seattle, with elements like a classic Greek tragedy and/or comedy: Some Kind of Ending is a powerfully imagined work of fiction. Full with art, crime and politics ... it tells the odyssey of a disparate, unhinged group...

Do you ever feel like life, work or family is overwhelming? Romance doesn't always go as planned. Do your friends think you quirky? Superstitious? Are you a people pleaser? If you answered "Yes " to any of these questions then My Life as a...

Two astronauts travel on the first manned expedition to the planet Venus. When the mission is mysteriously aborted and the ship returns to Earth, the Captain is missing and the First Officer, Harry M. Evans, can't explain what happened. Under psychiatric evaluation and interrogation,...

- Is it acceptable for a non-profit organization to direct the first million dollars it collects to the pockets of its CEO? - Do well-connected corporations and universities respect justice and strive to make the world better for everyone? - Should government serve the...

root (or "/") begins with a mock tech manual replete with ridiculous acronyms regarding the Information Systems Integration Structure (ISIS) operating system: proceeds to a flurry of prose-cartoons: and concludes with the doomed romance of Blood and Night: two tragic-comic ghosts in the Machine.Author:...

In this sequel to Quantum Roots, the meekish Olan Chapman faces danger as vigilante Samuel Leroy McCoy, a US deputy marshal who upheld law and order in 1876, Dodge City.The metamorphous holds an eerie transformation, cloaked with rolling sagebrush and horse whinnies from yesteryear,...

The American Vision. The American Journey.Land of Liberty.The Commies are Coming. The Commies are Coming! The Criminals Are Coming!The Terrorists Are Coming! Big Bees!It's that time of year again.Time for the release of the new sophomore textbook, American History 101, complete with brand new...

Raised in a secret convent in Area 51, young Maggie is caught up in alien plans for global warming in this hilarious satire of political correctness featuring Amelia Earhart, J. Edgar Hoover, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Hoffa, Joseph Smith, Harry S. Truman, D.B. Cooper, Howard...

This work of fiction satirizes a church scandal that took place in Manassas, Virginia between 1998 and 2002. The chronology and many details come directly from court depositions and newsprint articles, and many of the quotations come directly from church-sponsored lecturers and publications. The...

A NEW ADVENTURE IN MICHAEL MOORCOCK'S 'END OF TIME' UNIVERSE 21st-century revolutionary Leo finds himself at the End of Time, surrounded by decadent sorcerers whose childlike incomprehension is his worst nightmare. How to be effective when consequence is removed? What can have meaning when...

About to quit the failed experiment of civilisation, fake detective Taffy Atom is detained by one last case - a boy with a bomb in his mind. But what's the trigger? Pursued by cops, mobsters, mercenaries and a mechanical swan, Atom carries the bomb...

Sister Moonbeam-Goom-jigi, a hallucinatory, burned out, hippy flower child of the 60's, wrongfully thinks her late in life son is the by-product of an imagined one night stand with Jimmy Buffett. Years later on her deathbed her final words inadvertently send her son, 14...

First published in 1936, and long out of print, this famous novel is now presented in a new edition with a new, informative introduction by Peter Quennell to whom the book is dedicated. This totally engaging satire chronicles the clash between two cultures -...

A debut novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle Idiopathy (?d?'?p i): a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown. Idiopathy is a novel that is as unexpected as its title, in which Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan--three characters...

Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release from the sufferings of life. Narrated in luminous prose by Meena, a Jewish American lesbian who has claimed India as...

Bed is where we sleep and dream, where we make love and give ourselves nightmares. The thirteen stories in Wendy Rawlings's Time for Bed traverse the complicated terrain of bedtime activity, from adulterous couplings to nightmares that come to life, in terms that can...

Recommended by Entertainment Weekly The hilarious, uncompromising novel about African American domestic workers--from a trailblazer in Black women's literature and now featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First published in Paul Robeson's newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a...

This extravagantly imagined tale chronicles the rehabilitation of a teacher who has had a love affair with a twelve-year-old boy. While the man's crime was to mistake molestation for love, his cure will partake of the same confusion: to help and rehabilitate him, the...

Terry Southern was an acclaimed satirist of American culture, the writer who dreamed-up Candy and coauthored the screenplays for Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider. In Flash and Filigree, lauded as "a dazzling performance" by Henry Green, Southern delivers an outrageously funny commentary on the...

From "one of America's greatest living novelists" (Lee Smith, Weekly Standard), NK3 is a panoramic vision-suspenseful, comedic, prophetic-set in a near-future California that has been devastated by a memory-destroying virus from North KoreaAuthor: Michael TolkinISBN-10: 0802127576ISBN-13: 9780802127570Publisher: Grove PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2018Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...

In what the Washington Post has called "the scoop of the century," the author and political operative John Sedgwick discovered Mitt Romney's secret tell-all memoir in the Romney family vault in the basement of the Mormon tabernacle built in 1867 by Mitt Romney's great...

This deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth. Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped...

With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carson McCullers. He sharpens his cutting wit to a keen edge in Frankland, following the misadventures of a wannabe academic who...

Dongzhou City needs a new Mayor. Government corridors are awash with rumor and subterfuge as the local Communist Party mandarins go through the motions of selecting a candidate. Dangerous factions begin to form around the two contenders, Liu Yihe and Peng Guoliang. Devious plots,...