Satire

Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50)

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Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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William Blake


The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution.…

Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)

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Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Kandid oder Die beste Welt

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Voltaire


Der satirische Roman "Kandid oder die beste Welt" (Candide ou l'optimisme) erzaehlt die abenteuerliche Geschichte des naiven Jueng…

Um Club da Má Língua

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


O nome do autor é ocasionalmente grafado como Dostoievsky – foi um escritor russo, considerado um dos maiores romancistas da literat…

Crome Yellow

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Aldous Huxley


Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story…

Gorgias

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Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Mark Twain


In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master…

The Way We Live Now

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Anthony Trollope


The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. It was reg…

Fables de La Fontaine, livre 11

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Jean de la Fontaine


Ce onzième livre des fables de Jean de La Fontaine est celui qui contient le plus petit nombre de fables: 10. Toutefois, les textes d…

A Modest Proposal

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Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatt…

Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100)

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Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Vanity Fair

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William Makepeace Thackeray


Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like man…

Евреи и Россия (Jews and Russia)

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Ze'Ev Jabotinsky


Собрание статей 1903-1912 гг., которые заложили идейную основу сионистскому движению в Российской Империи и во всем мире.В 2014 году исполня…

Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125)

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Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Little Dorrit

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Charles Dickens


Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her ent…

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

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Herman Melville


The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on Ap…

The Devil's Dictionary

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Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

The Praise of Folly

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Desiderius Erasmus


The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dut…

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