Satirical fiction and parodies

The Grand Inquisitor is a passage taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov.

As a satire, ''Flatland'' offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.

'Erewhon', set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon.

Ready, Steady, Cook meets The Full Monty.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a landmark satirical novel by Anita Loos.

With more people writing books them reading them, who'd be an author?

From the series that inspired the hit London Weekend Television sitcom Bless Me, Father: At St.

As a satire, 'Flatland' offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by Francois Rabelais.

Big tobacco meets the boob tube in this incendiary satire from the bestselling author of The Many Loves of Dobie GillisJefferson Tatum is a self-made man.

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century.

It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years.

Animal Farm is George Orwell's brilliant political satire and allegorical fable about the corrupting effects of power.

One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.

Complete and unabridged.

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is a comedic and brilliantly postmodern lampoon of gothic romance novels.

The Diary of a Nobody is a comic masterpiece that has been hugely influential since its first publication in 1892.

Complete and unabridged.

In Burmese Days, George Orwell, one of the most famous writers in the English language, draws on his own experience of living and working in Burma to write an unflinching novel about the dark side of imperialism.

The misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver certainly are extraordinary.

After being chased from the home of an upper-class young girl called Ellie, chimney-sweep Tom falls asleep and tumbles into a river.

A biting satire of the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire's classic tale Candide, or the Optimist remains a bestseller over two centuries after its initial publication.

Jane Austen's wickedly satirical final novel, and the inspiration for a major motion picture starring Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding and Richard E.

The inspiration behind James by Percival Everett, shortlisted for the Booker PrizeNostalgic and melancholy in equal measure, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a razor-sharp satire of the antebellum South that, despite beginning life as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is now seen in its own right as one of the most important of all American novels.

One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.

With psychological insight and sparkling wit, Jane Austen paints an irresistibly lifelike portrait of shifting values and split loyalties in Mansfield Park.

One of the most irrepressible and exuberant characters in the history of literature, Tom Sawyer explodes onto the page in a whirl of bad behaviour and incredible adventures.

A major TV series starring Olivia Cooke, Simon Russell Beale and Micheal Palin.

Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

Anton Chekhov was one of the world's most accomplished short-story writers and this collection displays the breadth and variety of his genius.

Neue Übersetzung ins Deutsche:Die Ich-Erzählung erfolgt aus der Sicht von Alexej Iwanowitsch, einem Hauslehrer, der für eine russische Familie arbeitet, die in einer Suite in einem deutschen Hotel wohnt.

Ein Spiel der Wahrheit und TäuschungWas geschieht, wenn ein scheinbar banaler Gegenstand wie ein Krug zum Symbol von Wahrheit, Schuld und Macht wird?

From the series that inspired the hit London Weekend Television sitcom Bless Me, Father: A touching series of escapades from the always-rowdy parish of St.

"e;The Silicon Valley spy novel we've all been waiting for, with a side order of biting satire and furious feminism"e; (Crimereads).

EPISODE 4 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS Baxter returns as summer tutor for Clarence s grandson George and plans to weasel his way back into permanent employment.

EPISODE 1 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS Clarence has to get his pig eating again or lose the fat-pig prize to his arch nemesis.

A rags-to-riches tale so outrageously hysterical it could have only come from the marvelous mind of Max Shulman, bestselling author of The Many Loves of Dobie GillisA sensitive boy growing up in a bad neighborhood, Harry Riddle doesn't fit in with the kids who hold up gas stations, steal purses, and drop safes on policemen.

A wild and witty satire of American college life from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie GillisOn his first day of college, farm boy Asa Hearthrug enthusiastically jumps out of bed and discovers that his pajama pants are caught in the bedsprings.

From the series that inspired the hit London Weekend Television sitcom Bless Me, Father: After six months at St.

Home from the war, a veteran finds that his battles have only just begun in this zany and irreverent satire from the author of Rally Round the Flag, Boys!

A darkly hilarious, wildly erotic satire of Hollywood from "e;the only author capable of handling mayhem on a gigantic scale"e; (Esquire).

A sharply witty novel about social ambitions and artistic pretensions by the author of Brave New World.

From the world's greatest satirist, the classic adventures of the intrepid GulliverBroken into four parts, Gulliver's Travels marks the progress of a gallant explorer as he sails into the unknown, visiting surreal worlds like Brobdingnag, a realm filled with gigantic men; Lilliput, a diminutive land filled with pint-size people; Laputa, a floating island in the sky; and even the fabled land known as Japan.

The bawdy and satirical eighteenth-century novel: "e;A comic tour de force whose humor, of observation and incident, explodes on to every page"e; (The Guardian, "e;The 100 Best Novels"e;).

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We is a dystopian novel which is set in a dystopian future police state.

In seinem epischen Werk 'Tyll Ulenspiegel und Lamme Goedzak' erzählt Charles De Coster die Geschichte von Tyll, einem legendären Schelm aus dem 16.

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