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Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It
Martin Olson, Mahendra Singh (Illustrator), Tony Millionaire (Illustrator)
This inspired, hilarious Bierce and Twain-like send-up of humanity has a buzz from the likes of Metallica & Penn Jillette.
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Major Karnage
Gord Zajac
It has been 20 years since The War, and Major John Karnage has finally settled into retirement: locked up in an insane asylum, with an explosive device embedded in the back of his neck to curb his violent tendencies. Karnage and his troopers have been deemed unfit to live in normal society. L...
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An Embarrassment of Riches
Charlson Ong, Philippine Centennial Commission
Charlson Ong, Philippine Centennial Commission,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by University of the Philippines Press and Flipside Digital Content Company, Inc. on 12-27-2011
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Here is the story of Tom, Huck, Becky, and Aunt Polly; a tale of adventures, pranks, playing hookey, and summertime fun. Written by the author sometimes called "the Lincoln of literature," The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was surprisingly neither a critical nor a financial success when it was first p...
Fiction / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Satire, Juvenile Fiction
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Brother Jacob
George Eliot
Brother Jacob is Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading. Revealing Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception of them and the boundaries of art and ...
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The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers explores the perils, travels, and adventures of the Pickwick Club's members: the founding chairman, former businessman and amateur scientist Mr. Pickwick; his trusted companion Sam Weller; the sportsman Winkle; the poet Snodgrass; and the lover Tracy Tupman.
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The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-...
Fiction / Classics, Fiction / Historical, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Satire
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Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott
How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful "romance of many dimensions" explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the...
Fiction / Satire, Fiction / Science Fiction, Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
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The Hand of Ethelberta
Thomas Hardy
The only novel from Hardy that that provides a lighter tale, The Hand of Ethelberta, gives account of the life of a woman who lifts herself to the higher classes of the society.
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The Confidence-Man
Herman Melville
Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and, winning over his not-quite-innocent victims with ...
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The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf
In The Voyage Out, one of Woolf's wittiest, socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship, and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Lorna Sage's Introduction and Explanatory Notes offer guidance to the reade...
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The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is pos...
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne
At once endlessly facetious and highly serious, Sterne's great comic novel contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature--including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, and Dr. Slop--and boasts one of the most innovative and whimsical narrative styles in all...
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My Home is Far Away
Dawn Powell
My Home is Far Away is the most precisely autobiographical of Powell’s fifteen novels. In this family chronicle set in early twentieth century Ohio, young Marcia Willard’s family struggles to keep up with the rapidly changing times, and Marcia endures d...
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Toploader: A Novel
Ed O'Loughlin
Ed O'Loughlin,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by SilverOak on 08-07-2012
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Herr der Krähen: Roman
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Thomas Brückner (Translator)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Thomas Brückner (Translator),NOOK Book (eBook) - 1. Auflage, German-language edition,Pub by A1 Verlag
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Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley
On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters--from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with w...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
In this biting satire by Twain, a 19th c. Yankee mechanic is knocked out during a brawl, and wakes to find himself in Camelot, A.D. 528, in King Arthur's Court. When the modern mechanic tries to cure society's ills (oppressed peasantry, evil church, etc.) with 19th c. industrial inventions like e...
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The Prince and The Pauper
Mark Twain
Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince And The Pauper is a delight satire of England's romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparked the best of Mark Twain's tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London's filthy lanes, the other...
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A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. It is probably his most difficult satire, and possibly his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three broth...