Fiction - Satire

A historical farce in the same vein as the Flashman books, White Zulu describes adventures and misadventures of Colonel Bagshot, late of her Majesty's Hussars in the battles of Isandlwana and Rourke's Drift. Solidly based in historical events, it plays on the "unseen events"...

Fiction. Art. Illustrated by Royce M. Becker. Charles Holdefer, author of DICK CHENEY IN SHORTS, The Contractor, and Back in the Game, has here uncovered, with abundant aplomb and loads of literary-archaeological legerdemain, a crucial long-lost manuscript by legendary magician Blast. For years Blast...

An incomparably hilarious satire of modern consumer culture, with everything from personality to religion commodified, like Virginie Despentes meets Blade Runner.Author: Dorota MaslowskaISBN-10: 1941920829ISBN-13: 9781941920824Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2019Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/29/2019Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019

Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work is generally considered to have drawn upon and be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of...

A beguiling story of espionage and its relationship with the entertainment industry. Penned in Slovakian, translated to English. This is an extremely interesting glimpse into intrigue and its far-reaching initiatives, such as Elvis. "The Stars We Wrecked," takes readers on a journey through the...

This Workman Classic Schoolbooks edition contains: * Background/Introduction * Biography * Footnotes * Vocabulary and Comprehension/Extension questions after each chapter * Discussion Questions suitable for students or book clubs * Extension activities Flatland was first published in 1884 and is a unique combination of...

Set in Spain and Sweden, twelve dark and funny short stories of characters who range from messy to outright deviant. Author: Lina WolffISBN-10: 1911508806ISBN-13: 9781911508809Publisher: And Other StoriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2020Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2020

You are an artist living in New York City who suddenly faces a series of temptations as your estranged father and older successful siblings re-enter your life, bringing with them old grudges and bringing once-buried secrets to light. Later on, a horrific tragedy occurs...

Aspiring photographer Dunya Noor discovers early on that her curious spirit, rebellious nature, and very curly hair are a recipe for disaster in 1980s Syria. And at the tender age of thirteen, she is exiled to live with her grandparents in England. Many years...

The Missionaries is a story of the collision of three cultures. A brilliant tale of ineptitude, self-righteousness, and human folly, it combines the mordant wit of W. Somerset Maugham with a sense of humor reminiscent of P.G. Wodehouse. When Dr. Sydney Prout is named...

The Promethean is an amazingly funny novel exposing the utter insanity of modern academia and the world of technology. An extraordinary tale of ambition, social justice, and human folly, it combines the mordant wit of W. Somerset Maugham with a sense of humor reminiscent...

Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: or, Optimism...

First published in four volumes between 1532 and 1552, Rabelais' comic masterpiece chronicles the adventures of a giant, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel. More than four centuries later, the terms "gargantuan" and "Rabelaisian" are synonymous with earthy humor, a surfeit of good food and...

When a film producer arrives at the California Heritage Gallery to view Hack's paintings, he's accompanied by the artist's childhood sweetheart, a woman he hasn't seen in twenty years except in dreams, where she appears almost nightly, a heavenly image of beauty and light....

Tono-Bungay is a realist semiautobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1909. It has been called "arguably his most artistic book". It was originally serialized in The English Review beginning in the magazine's first issue in December 1908. It was serialized...

Marty Mann and Nellie Dixon are back for another irreverent, liberal, twisty, time travel comedy This time they have Noah's Ark and Ronald Reagan in their sights.Where would you go on a time travel vacation?At the conclusion of their last episode, Marty Mann and...

The hero of Will Save the Galaxy for Cash returns to do what he does best. Which is - what again, exactly?With the age of heroic star pilots and galactic villains completely killed by quantum teleportation, the ex-star pilot currently named Dashford Pierce is...

A darkly comic literary novel, LYING BASTARD is set in Long Beach, CA, and is narrated by adjunct English professor Berlin Saunders, who, as the book opens, is playing dead on the classroom floor after a school shooting. The story revolves around a father-son...

An Organized Syndicate of mentally driven and business-minded individuals who led a revolution, a cult following, and whose names were spoken as justification when it came to the spilling of blood.This is the story of PR Escobar, Don Corione and Sam Luciano. The men...

Imagine the look on the mechanic's face when they see you reading this book If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill a mechanic, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately For the rest of you, bring some dark...

The tenth novel written by Dickens, "Hard Times" was first published in 1854. The story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial mill-town of Coketown and examines English society while satirising the social and economic conditions of the era. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870)...

Originally published as a serial from 1855 to 1857, Dickens's novel "Little Dorrit" tells the story of Amy Dorrit, the youngest child of her family born and raised in a debtors prison whose life is changed when she meets Arthur Clennam, returning home from...

Imagine the look on your house guest's faces when they see you reading this book If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill your house guests, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately. For the rest of you, bring...

Imagine the look on your parent's face when they see you reading this book If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill your parents, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately For the rest of you, bring some humor...

Have you ever thought about being a mail carrier for the USPS? If so, now's the time because the United States Postal Service is hiring like never before. After a job freeze for far too long, full-time employees now retiring, and a growth in...

What do you do when the man you love proposes to someone else?Nadiene just lost her swing dance partner-and long-term crush-to another woman. Defeated, she sets out on a search for a replacement dance partner.She has her eye on the dance teacher but he...

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. Gulliver's bad luck at sea not only gets him shipwrecked and castaway, but repeatedly throws...

In a decade, Dan, Evan, and Bullseye will meet. It's a different world, with our country on the verge of collapse. Years of promises by Congress to give everything to everyone have to be paid for. The citizenry is taxed to the max and...

Harold Jaffe is well-known for his docufiction, which is at once personal and detached, serious and satirical, familiar and esoteric. He has been recognized for pinpointing and even aestheticizing the media pathology that informs and increasingly determines our daily lives. In BRUT, Jaffe addresses...

A brave and hilarious debut set in colonial India, Cow and Company begins with the British Chewing Gum Company setting up shop in Bombay with the mission of introducing chewing gum in the colonies. They declare paan, which is in all mouths at all...

It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to make his fortune. Through his wanton ambition, a megalomania surfaces that is unrelieved by his insensitive attempts at friendship and romance. Yet is he all bad, or are the...

Marvin Martin is angry. Night after night, he strips the guests that appear on his talk show of their pitiful pretensions, their commonplace hypocrisies, but how long has it been since he uncovered a genuine revelation? . . . Hurwitz is scared. He selects...

In a desolate near future, an unemployed trucker gets paid to chauffeur a simulacrum of Benjamin Franklin on a speaking tour across America. A lonely realtor takes in a long-lost uncle who claims to have returned from the future and blogs accordingly. A self-help...

Would you dumb down to fit in?​​ Simon escapes the ridiculous Riverside University of London by exchanging with its American partner - the University of Sunshine Bayside, only to wake up to the wokest of woke colleges. Virtues are punished as vices, conformity trumps...

A humorous view of what really happened after you dropped mom off at the nursing home."If you can't find the humor working in a skilled nursing facility you'll go home every night wishing vodka came out of your shower."Ned Russo thought he had it...

Do you want to read What is Man? If so then keep reading...In "What is Man?" Mark Twain raises numerous thought-provoking questions about mankind and the way the mind works. With his usual wit, Twain has created a beautiful dialogue that in many ways...

When you want to make your mark, an occasion with all the trimmings is just the ticket. The village of Beeting Down has a centenarian in its midst, but when she shuffles off this mortal coil before they can wish her happy birthday, it...

Wigfield is a town in danger. Built directly in front of a massive dam, this bucolic hideaway will soon be flooded when the dam is torn down by the state government to restore the salmon run. Wigfield's only hope lies in the self-righteous, self-aggrandizing,...

Before the war How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?' The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to...

Life isn't easy when you have to learn all the ins and outs of joining the royal family. From brushes with the law to disastrous shooting outings, discover all the things that probably didn't happen When Harry met Meghan but would have been funny...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady (1925) is a comic novel written by American author Anita Loos. The story primarily follows the escapades and dalliances of a young blonde flapper in New York City and Europe during the Roaring Twenties....

"A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives-'NOBODY TO BLAME." -The Gilded Age, (1873) The Gilded Age: A Tale of...

The third installment in Booth Tarkington's "Growth Series", "The Midlander" is a 1923 novel by Booth Tarkington. The story continues exploring the rapid development of the Unites States through the eyes of the Ambersons, a declining aristocratic family living in Indianapolis during the final...

Over the span of a century, the Pontifex family is populated by manipulative and domineering characters attempting to control the fate of the next generation. In The Way of All Flesh, Ernest Pontifex tries to pursue a righteous path but is met with painstaking...

Don't fall for your coworker...especially when he's your roommate.Sutton Barnes thinks he's Prince Charming, but he's really the Prince of Hell.He's egotistical. A user. A complete douchecanoe.And unfortunately now my coworker. Did I mention he's also my new roommate? It's all because I can't...

Georges Ngal's pathbreaking satire Giambatista Viko explores the vexed relations between metropolitan centers and peripheral former colonies through its titular antihero, an African professor at an African studies institute divided between European-focused cosmopolitans and Africanists. Struggling to write the great African novel and subject...

Read one of the most popular books of all timeThe definitive edition Features an uplifting extended biography of the life and experiences of Jane Austen Professionally remastered for premium quality print and easy reading Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen's...

The new satire from the author of Radio Sunrise. Who will be the next president of the Society of Journalists in Lagos? Who is qualified to lead the esteemed body of journalists and help uphold professional ethics in the state? Will honesty and integrity...

From the author of countless esteemed classics such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, , Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court follows an American engineer named Hank Morgan. When Hank suffers from a severe head injury, he falls unconscious, only to...

When the government cracks down on alcohol sales, two men decide to leave their small fishing village to avoid the law and find new opportunities. The Flying Inn is an irreverent satire that delivers a unique commentary on power and politics. Humphrey Pump, also...