Fiction - Satire

Welcome to Walrus Tales-the only anthology of walrusian fiction on the planet. Herein, find tales of all stripes: horrific, satiric, comedic, tragic, erotic, and a bunch of other "-ic" and "non-ic" words, like "Lovecraftian" and "Bizarro." Why devote an entire anthology to walruses? Perhaps...

(Publisher's Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not actual biographies. They are closer to maps of the author's ego than they are texts about the namesakes adorning...

(Publisher's Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not actual biographies. They are closer to maps of the author's ego than they are texts about the namesakes adorning...

WINNER OF THE CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN WRITERS CONTESTA humorous picaresque set in sixteenth-century Spain, Thrown into Nature tells the story of Dr. Nicol疽 Monardes, whose medical treatise "Of the Tabaco and His Great Vertues" was partially responsible for introducing tobacco to Europe. His Portuguese assistant,...

It is 1923. The location is Port-au-Prince, the scenic and sweltering capital of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. Although the country won its independence more than a century earlier, for the last eight years it has languished under the yoke of the U.S. Occupation....

Chill out. It's only the technological singularity. Blake Given's web-enabled fridge has pulled the plug on the Internet, turning its owner's life - and the whole world - upside down. Blake has modest ambitions for his life. He wants to have his job reclassified,...

A brilliant satirist, Ostap Vyshnia sent up the shortcomings of Soviet life and bureaucracy in the 1920s. He was famous in Ukraine almost exclusively for his feuilletons, and achieved enormous popularity in this genre in the 1920s, especially among the peasant population. Called by...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' is a semi-autobiographical short story drawing on Charlotte Gilman's personal experience of mental collapse, exacerbated by the paternalistic attitudes current in her day, a tale which doubles as the perfect vehicle for protesting the unequal status of women in marriage. In...

The House of Mirth follows the career and final downfall of Lily Bart, a society beauty in turn-of-the-century New York, whose financial security stands on very shaky ground. In a culture where money measures everything and morals are worn like fashionable garments, for appearances...

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world....

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world....

"Funniest book I've ever read." -Tom McCaffrey, bestselling author of The Wise AssIs it too much to ask that a managed care facility refund a year's advance payment when your grandfather dies before he can move in?Frank Johnson doesn't think so, which is why...

In English for the first time, a panoramic satire about the star-making machine, set in celebrity-obsessed Weimar Berlin. In Berlin, 1930, the name K sebier is on everyone's lips. A literal combination of the German words for "cheese" and "beer," it's an unglamorous name...

The unlikely hero of His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocation--and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity--who dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill and sickly wife by her purse strings, he enters timidly...

"Looking Forward Through the Rear View Mirror" profiles a coming of age tale of Scott Spykstra, a naive 14-year old, whose simple family background and Catholic education have formed his values. His journey begins in the final weeks of 8th grade, where humorous altar...

While researching narcotics for his law school's journal, a young man known only as "the Owl" finds himself swooping in and out of some of California's most impenetrable and notorious motorcycle clubs and secret societies: invite-only S&M house parties, the Sinaloa cartel, the Church...

Read & Co. Great Essays presents this brand new edition of Jonathan Swift's satirical essay, "A Modest Proposal" (1729). Referring to the worsening state of poverty amongst families and children in Ireland at the time, Swift's proposal is to solve the problem by feeding...

Read & Co. Classics presents this brand new edition of Oscar Wilde's famous play, "The Importance of Being Earnest", first performed in London in 1895. The play questions the nature and purpose of the institution of marriage, poking fun at the morals, assumptions and...

The definitive novel of today's Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are tackled with authority and brash playfulness by New...

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

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,...

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

"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...

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...

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 -...