Fiction - Satire

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result...

Alexis's long-awaited second novel follows his award-winning Childhood. Set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years, Asylum is Andr Alexis's sweeping, edged-in-satire, yet deeply serious tale of intertwined lives and fortunes, of politics and vain ambition, of the building of a magnificent prison, of human...

This early novel is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written by the prolific English critic and author of novels, short stories, essays and verse, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), it is a futuristic novel set in 1984 in a London...

London, 1975. The Sex Pistols do their first gig at the Marquee. Death Race 2000 and Rollerball are on at the cinema. The first Macdonald's has just opened. And women are banned from wearing trousers in the office. Meet Dave Maudling, editor of The...

Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered hilariously in Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp. Black No More is the story...

In 2076, the sprawling Baby Boom generation is down to one last survivor, 111-year-old Martin McCrae. The distinction earns McCrae a suite at a New York City museum where contestants pay a small fee to spend fifteen minutes with him as part of an...

The Earth is a different place after the continental convergence, but teenage girls are facing the same social challenges while transitioning from high school and into the real world where magic and science now co-exist.Kristen is skipping school and coping with the loss of...

The nefarious Dope Gang has robbed the Wonder City First National Bank!In a world where the line between super and supervillain blurs with televised news, two lost souls are caught in a bank-heist blunder. Crimson Justice-the most powerful super on the planet, endorsed by...

Real estate development is a risky undertaking and can be fraught with complexities. With so many factors playing into the uncertain success or failure of real estate development, when you mix hubris, inflated egos, greed, and a false sense of reality with market trends,...

This book contains psychedelic cats. Some mildly psychedelic, some more psychedelic.Within these pages, they recite poetry.Occasionally, some will insult you.This is a book for people who like cats.Author: J. F. StretchingtonISBN-10: 8847420733ISBN-13: 9798847420730Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2022Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

In the continuing escapades of the terrible trickster in the twenty-first century, Coyote takes a while to be reassembled by his faithful friends, but as the butt of jokes or focus of revenge he is still the center of attention and trickery in a...

NB: This book is a SATIRE. Prof. Ois? MacAmada? is an expert, one of the best, in fact. Founder, sole lecturer and provost of The Termonfeckin Institute of Expertise in Ireland's beautiful Co. Louth, he knew that if there was one thing governments needed...

Professor Harold Berwyn has just been brutally murdered but graduate creative writing student Skip Gershwin is too self-absorbed to care. His chief preoccupations are finding a girlfriend and becoming a famous American poet. When he meets Gudrun Frege, a brilliant Austrian au pair, it...

The Zombie Survival Guide for the 99%. Okay, you've read survival guides, you've got your guns, ammo and bottled water stored away in your cellar. But, there's one thing you didn't factor into your 'plan'. Statistics prove; by week three you'll probably be a...

Mike Laycock is a seasoned political operative who has spent years working behind the scenes for the Prime Minister, Christopher Wayne. But when damning allegations of corruption surface, Christopher calls for a Federal Election. Knowing he has one chance to do the right thing,...

The Drum Wars is a guide to the ancient Maya world as it collides with the 21st century. Past and present intersect at an offbeat hotel near the famed jungle ruins of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. In this steamy landscape, American archaeologists, besieged Indians,...

In this haute couture-noir novel, T/James Reagan, author of Famous For Nothing, provides his post-Empire vision of the New York fashion scene.Reagan's novel explores all of the taboo subjects plaguing the fashion industry- racism, underage models, eating disorders, pervy photographers, human trafficking, unfair payment...

"Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages...

A mysterious illness is about to splinter an unsuspecting family ... An expos jam-packed with love, lust, debauchery and greed unfolds when disease collides with healthcare profiteers and physician indifference in Conversations for Paco. Inspired by a true account, Conversations for Paco juxtaposes the...

Dancing to Mozart is a satire of Hollywood values and fantasies, Latin American dictatorships, Da Vinci Code conspirators, movie violence, magical realism, televangelists, mixed wrestling, extreme cosmetic surgery, and a host of other sensational idiocies that thrive on 21st century self-delusion. This whimsical contemporary...

This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1893 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Dancing Partner' is a short story about the scarcity of young men as dancing dancing partners and a creepy...

The avid Trump loving evangelical, Angelica Donaldson has been diagnosed with a form of bone cancer. Her surgeon, Dr Nigel Johnson has recommended a quadruple amputation to save her life. With such a radical treatment, many of her family and friends disagree with the...

Roger Rosenblatt's dazzling comic gifts are on enviable display....Beet will settle the issue: is Roger Rosenblatt our most audacious comic visionary, or our most audacious visionary comic?"--Joyce Carol OatesBeet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate,...

The year is 2400. Half a century ago the Earth War was fought between the Alliance of Free Survivalists and the last remaining members of the Swashbucklers Guild, led by secret agent Q. The planet was saved after great struggle and at terrible cost....

2022 RPLA Gold Winner for Satire!Hello, Boomers!​Meet Ukraine's most popular explosives channel, JananananaXD!​​Jan Bagan is a Ukrainian YouTuber living in the small, rural town of Nide, which leans against the Russian border. Though he stocks shelves at the only local grocery store at night,...

Three strange short stories involving children, death, and absurdity.Begin the eerie journey with a Stone-Pair girl who kills her father and then finds herself on a mysterious island of gruel.Meet a boy who starves to death and then encounters the seven deadly sins in...

This is the first of Anthony Trollope's "Chronicles of Barsetshire" novels, and his first popularly successful novel. The basic plot is that the Warden, Mr. Harding, has 1) a sinecure church position that pays him 800 pounds a year; 2) a reform-minded friend who's...

When Death, a gorgeous and painfully vain yet misunderstood member of heaven's team, is caught in the middle of a power play between God and the devil, she must decide if she'll retire forever in the lap of luxury or risk her beauty, her...

A theologically humorous take on the Bible using the words and thoughts of President Donald TrumpAuthor: Harvey Jenkins, Covfefe JonesISBN-10: 1977064841ISBN-13: 9781977064844Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2018Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d

King Leopold�������s Soliloquy is a book written by Mark Twain, in which he takes on the persona of King Leopold II of Belgium and defends his controversial rule over the Congo Free State in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book is...

Published anonymously in 1704, this prose satire by the author of Gulliver's Travels presents a story of three brothers, each symbolizing a Christian sect, and an unrelated series of digressions. The "tale" portion centers on Peter, Martin, and Jack, who respectively represent Roman Catholicism,...

In the 1970's, Sam Stratton was considered an up-and-coming actor, an actor's-actor, a promising young talent until a nasty contract dispute knee-capped his career. Now, he has a chance, maybe his last chance, to revive his stalled, defunct, movie career. All he needs to...

The Holy Bible, according to Matt Shaw. Taking the popular stories from the Bible and giving them a horror twist; this book is not intended to be used as a way of preaching your beliefs. God would probably frown down upon such usage, but...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; or Nicholas Nickleby. Is the 1839 novel by the author Charles Dickens that chronicles the life and adventures, or humorous misadventures, of the young man Nicholas Nickleby that must support his widowed mother and sister in Victorian...

America is downtown earth and will not be ignored. Yet the question lingers: the last best hope of earth or the land that Satan blessed? 3 American Cranks takes you on a satirical roller coaster tour of the best and worse of the Land...

Dating is hard. Dating in a small town? Impossible. Leave it to my little brother to come back home announcing he knocked up his fianc馥 and the wedding has been moved...to next month. When he tries to set me up with one of his...

In Bicycles of the Gods, the main character, Jesse, presents an earthly incarnation of Jesus Christ come to earth in the body of a 12-year-old boy in the company of Xavi, who is the earthly incarnation of Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds, also a 12-year-old...

Mrs Clay: The Austen Expert's Companion to 'Persuasion'An unusual comedy, in which modern wit and nineteenth-century story-telling blend with a serious reassessment of Austen's final novel, Persuasion, and the state of mind of its author when she cut it short, to spend her last...

The Anti-Pamela: Or, Feign'd Innocence Detected (1741) is a novel by Eliza Haywood. Blending tragedy and comedy, Haywood explores the intersection of gender and class to reveal how women perform and experience desire. Written in response to Samuel Richardson's Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded, a...

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.Journey with Lemuel Gulliver from island to island in his adventure across worlds extraordinaire. From the tiny people of Liliput, to the giant people of Brobdingnag, to the yahoos subservient to a...

"A virgin birth? A virgin? Her?" God shouted at Freud while recalling his one night stand with Mary. Freud snorted another line of cocaine in celebration, believing that this story would help Nietzsche in his quest to fire God from Heaven Inc. Nietzsche, however,...

Antic Hay is a comic novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1923. The story takes place in London, and depicts the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I.The book follows the lives of...

One lonely plumber. One bad decision. One trillion lives upended. This is the story of Roy, the architect of an epic crisis that paralyzed the largest space station in the universe. The aftermath created a legend, but the lunacy behind it remained a mystery....

In 1879, Colt Arms Factory superintendent Hank Morgan gets a crowbar to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's England of AD 528, replete with steel-plated knights, hefty horses, blushing ladies, vast castles, and a great oaken table the shape and size of...

The Memoir of the Minotaur is the posthumous confessions of the half-man, half-bull of Crete, as offered to an audience of recently-deceased, 21st century fellow souls in Hades' domain. This book is a satire for readers unafraid of a rollicking good tale involving anatomically-complex...

Author: Jonathan SwiftISBN-10: 8171674194ISBN-13: 9788171674190Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.72d

Morfeo is going to die. Or not.Addicted to prescription drugs by careless doctors and aggressive drug companies, Morfeo is dancing on the edge of disaster. A confrontation with his son forces him to face his addiction and take the "road from which there is...

"I wish I was a fly on the wall."We've all said those words before, but what really happens when we say them?Meet Max Cohen, an angel living in human form in the city of Brooklyn, New York.His job is very simple: Keep your nose...

Lonely loser Howard Feck has just fallen in love over the internet. His online paramour, the sexy and vivacious Deborah Fairchild, seems to be every man's dream girl. Howard sure lucked out. But when he arrives in Deborah's small town to consummate their digital...

After a 'minor' viral type disaster from Wuhan China takes place, America shuts down daily business and all inhabitants are forced or are required in a strong fashion to self-quarantine. The Kovid family, who live somewhere in the Eastern US make the best of...