Search results for “[Subject: satire]”

• Author(s): Ruben Quintero • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Books & ReadingA COMPANION TO SATIRE A COMPANION TO SATIRE “This book forms a substantial contribution to literary studies and is likely...

• Author(s): James Thomson • Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • Publisher Imprint: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • BISAC: LiteraryMr. Foote has done an important service to the memory of James Thomson (B.V.) by collecting in book form a number of the a...

• Author(s): James Thomson • Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • Publisher Imprint: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • BISAC: LiteraryMr. Foote has done an important service to the memory of James Thomson (B.V.) by collecting in book form a number of the a...

• Author(s): Michael Hill • Publisher: Random House • Publisher Imprint: Random House • BISAC: Editors, Journalists, Publishers"A delightful and entertaining book about one of America's greatest humorists."--Seth Meyers This "absorbing, illuminat...

• Author(s): L. M. Warren • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralWhat happens when a closeted lesbian fairy tale princess falls in love with a witch instead of the handsome pri...

• Author(s): Esti Sheinberg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Individual Composer & MusicianThe music of Shostakovich has been at the centre of interest of both the general public and dedicated scholars throughout...

• Author(s): Fulton J. Sheen • Publisher: Doubleday Books • Publisher Imprint: Doubleday Books • BISAC: Christian Living - InspirationalPublished to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, this scintillating ...

• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a comprehensive collection of the works of Jonathan Swift, one of the greatest satirists in English literature. From the...

• Author(s): Thomas Love Peacock • Publisher: Bibliotech Press • Publisher Imprint: Bibliotech Press • BISAC: SatireNightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in which the author pokes light-hearted fun at the romantic movement in contemporary En...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Perfection Learning • Publisher Imprint: Perfection Learning • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsOrwell's brilliant 1946 satire, chronicling a revolution staged by the animals on Mr. Jones's farm.

• Author(s): Benjamin Franklin • Publisher: Frog in Well • Publisher Imprint: Frog in Well • BISAC: QuotationsMeet Benjamin Franklin as you've never met him before . . . This hilarious collection includes the Founding Father's satirical writings ...

• Author(s): Ford Russell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryNortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just trage...

• Author(s): Thomas Love Peacock • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: ClassicsThomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and offic...

• Author(s): Rajesh Talwar • Publisher: Kalpaz Publications • Publisher Imprint: Kalpaz PublicationsInside gayland is a satire on the law criminalizing homosexuality in India. The inappropriateness of law in this regard is highlighted as well as ...

• Author(s): Katherine Stansfield • Publisher: Seren Books • Publisher Imprint: Seren Books • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPlaying House, the debut collection of poetry from Katherine Stansfield, features a concise wit, a dist...

• Author(s): William D. Brewer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsRegularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the ...

• Author(s): Mahasweta Devi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English LiteratureMahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her ...

• Author(s): Stephen Delucchi • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsThis book chronicles the history of the great sociali...

• Author(s): William D. Brewer | Daniel Robinson | Sharon M. Setzer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsRegularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved pub...

• Author(s): Leon Battista Alberti • Publisher: Harvard University Press • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press • BISAC: GeneralMomus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist an...

• Author(s): Asalean Springfield • Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Page Publishing, Inc. • BISAC: Inspiration & Personal GrowthPrinciples of Progress is an informative and inspirational engagement of a broad audience. Th...

• Author(s): Murray Edmond • Publisher: Auckland University Press • Publisher Imprint: Auckland University Press • BISAC: Australian & OceanianThe four phases of the moon are the organizing theme of this poetry collection from a lively and ir...

• Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray • Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • Publisher Imprint: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • BISAC: ClassicsWilliam Makepeace Thackeray is lauded for his razor-sharp wit in satirical novels such as Vanity Fair. In th...

• Author(s): Shamshad Khan • Publisher: Salt Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Salt Publishing • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn her first full-length collection of poetry, Shamshad Khan struts with attitude from the poetic to t...

• Author(s): Matthew Stadler • Publisher: Grove Press • Publisher Imprint: Grove Press • BISAC: LiteraryThis extravagantly imagined tale chronicles the rehabilitation of a teacher who has had a love affair with a twelve-year-old boy. While the ma...

• Author(s): Dorothy Parker • Publisher: Everyman's Library • Publisher Imprint: Everyman's Library • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Love & EroticaAn irresistible hardcover collection of the famous humorist's poems that range from lighthearte...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Blurb • Publisher Imprint: Blurb • BISAC: GeneralIs Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearea...

• Author(s): Slavs and Tatars • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Art & PoliticsA satirical poem about the rivalry of various fruits becomes a point of departure for investigations of tolerance and identity in a plu...

• Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray • Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • Publisher Imprint: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • BISAC: LiteraryBorn in Calcutta in 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray's earliest works were sharp satirical barbs written un...

• Author(s): Holly Jackson • Publisher: Austin Macauley • Publisher Imprint: Austin Macauley • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralIn Banana & Salted Caramel, Holly Jackson brings together verse and prose written across two decades, express...

• Author(s): Shengmu Biao • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Fantasy - GeneralA folktale from the future, discovered today. As the ancient land of Liwai rebuilds from years of catastrophe, a...

• Author(s): Stephen Wright • Publisher: Little Brown and Company • Publisher Imprint: Little Brown and Company • BISAC: SatireFrom an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some mone...