Classics - Satire and Social Commentary

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of...

• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureGulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It c...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAnimal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella. It reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, bei...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable pict...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where,...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre person...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable ...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOliver Twist, Dickens's critique of the harsh Poor Law of 1834, and a grim picture of the sordid reality the London underworld of Dickens...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMan and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHeart of Darkness is the finest of all Conrad's tales, showing him at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, a...

• Author(s): Henrik Ibsen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.” Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is a groun...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.” The Trial by Franz Kafka, first published posthumously ...

• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVolpone (or The Fox) is a comedy in five acts, performed about 1605–1606 and published in 1607, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast f...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureNineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian fiction portraying a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip O...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIt is a fantasy novel published in 1928. It traces the career of the androgynous Orlando through four centuries from the late sixteenth ce...

• Author(s): Gustave Flaubert • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOnce considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert’s exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman’s gradual corruption and the human ...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureNorthanger Abbey, written during the same period as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, represents Jane Austen's genius at its fre...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCandida, a classic comedy, was written in 1894. Set in London’s East End during the Victorian era, the play is about the domestic tur...

• Author(s): Premchand • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Hindi Literatureप्रेमचंद द्वारा रचित निर्मला उपन्यास एक पंद्रह वर्षीय लड़की जो बनारस के एक मध्यमवर्गीय परिवार से है, इस पर आधारित है। इस उपन्यास के जरिए प्रेमचंद ...

• Author(s): Edith Wharton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureEdith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence is a social satire, a bitter-sweet romance, bringing to life the g...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and architectural studies. His characters are prim...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Oliver Twist : The only token of identity left by Dicken's dying mother to Oliver Twist – born in the workhouse, and or...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and a...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTess of the D’Urbervilles, a brilliant tale of seduction, love, betrayal, and murder, is generally regarded as Thomas Hardy’s finest novel. ...

• Author(s): Premchand • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Hindi Literatureप्रेमचंद का उपन्यास प्रतिज्ञा भारतीय समाज की गहराई में छिपे नैतिकता, सुधारवाद और स्त्री-उत्थान जैसे विषयों पर आधारित है। इस कहानी के मुख्य पात्र ...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd• Publisher Imprint: Peacock Books• Subject: English Literature• BISAC: fiction "I am oppressed by such strange thoughts, such gloomy sensations; questions st...

• Author(s): Jack london • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The Wild still lingered in him, and the wolf in him merely slept." White Fang, published in 1906 by Jack London, is an enthralling adventur...

• Author(s): Harriet Beecher Stowe • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“In the love of truth, and in the love of freedom, we shall yet be able to abolish slavery.” Set against the backdrop of slavery in...

• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift’s first major and his most masterly work. It presents a satire of religious excess. When it was written, p...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, or simply Othello, is a tragedy written in approximately 1603. One of Shakespeare's ...

• Author(s): William M. Thackeray • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face." Set against the backdrop of the Napoleo...

• Author(s): Victor Hugo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“To be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, on...

• Author(s): Henry Fielding • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJoseph Andrews is Fielding's first novel, and although directed against Samuel Richardson's Pamela which was a great success, it is far fr...