Satirical fiction and parodies

Young Candide is ejected from his idyllic life in a protected castle and finds himself encountering wild adventures and harsh trials that put to the test his teacher's claim that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

Gulliver's strange adventures in some of the most unusual lands ever imagined have made this one of the rare classics with an enduring and wide-ranging appeal to all ages.

Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More.

Catherine Morland is obsessed with the romantic adventures and supernatural terrors of Gothic novels.

Catherine Morland is obsessed with the romantic adventures and supernatural terrors of Gothic novels.

With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James.

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

A special edition of England, Their England by A.

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

The misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver certainly are extraordinary.

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

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

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.

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.

When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground.

A comedy of no manners, Brrm!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

With an introduction by the writer and critic Viv Groskop.

A ruthless satire of academic life, The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury is a witty campus novel and one of the most influential books of the 1970s.

From the author of Cultural Amnesia, beloved writer, poet and broadcaster Clive James, The Remake is a satirical story of astronomy, celebrity and a certain sort of romance .

The multi-million-copy number one bestsellerOne of The Sunday Times's top 100 bestselling books of the past 50 yearsWelcome to Bridget's first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.

'Lisa Owens is a comedy genius' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals'Laugh-out-loud funny' Observer'Insanely funny but also moving and true' Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall'A deadpan comic debut for the procrastination generation' GuardianNow and again we all lie awake wondering what on earth we're doing with our lives .

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

From the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and other classics: A witty novel set in 1920s London about our need to believe in something.

The classic comedy about seventeenth-century French society-and a man who despises everyone.

An intellectual summer party at an English country house is satirized with "e;ingenuity, sophistication [and] impudence"e; by the author of A Brave New World (H.

A tragic tale of romance, oppression, and depraved nobility in seventeenth-century England by the author of LesMiserables.

The classic political satire about an imaginary ideal world by one of the Renaissance's most fascinating figures.

The classic novel about the downsides of small-town life by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Babbitt and It Can't Happen Here.

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;).

This classic work of medieval literature features the pious and profane stories of commoners on a pilgrimage in fourteenth-century England.

"e;A wonderful, melodramatic tale-of-the-times, by a master of his craft.

A lost generation searches for meaning in chaotic post-WWI London in this satirical novel by the acclaimed author of Brave New World.

This 1923 novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of Paterson satirizes American colonization, creative ambition, and the novel form itself.

An indolent college student creates a chaotic fictional world in this classic of Irish literature: "e;A marvel of imagination, language, and humor"e; (The New Republic).

The acclaimed author of Mapp and Lucia introduces the beloved Miss Elizabeth Mapp, a devious social climber, in this charming British comedy of manners.

This acclaimed series that inspired a hit London Weekend Television sitcom is "e;a long, gentle breeze of humour"e; (James Herriot).

The women of an English country village star in this Victorian classic that inspired a BBC series, from the author of North and South.

This classic story of two nineteenth-century social climbers is the basis for countless films and TV series, and one of the UK's "e;Best-Loved Novels.

From one of Britain's leading writers comes a biting satire about a country founded on Nihilism and a government gone mad Nihilon is a country where honesty is outlawed, drunk driving is mandatory, and nihilism reigns supreme.

An illustrated classic from the author of Saville and Flight into CamdenWritten before David Storey's 1976 Man Booker Prize winning novel Saville, Edward tells the tale of a kindly and aging bishop who lives his life by just and holy standards until one day he is surprised by the appearance of an old key, sitting in a curious box atop his study desk.

A Jewish freshman searches for love and money at the University of Minnesota in this raucous satire from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie GillisIt's the middle of the Great Depression and Morris Katz and his cousin Albert are broke.

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.

New York Times Bestseller: The US Army invades a small Connecticut town in this Cold War comedy classic.

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.