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Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Summary
An entrepreneurial businessman satirically relates to his nephews how he became the wealthiest man in Baghdad.
Written by
Hilaire Belloc
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A young working-class man sets out to become a bourgeois writer.
Written by
Jack London
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
An American Novel
Summary
A wealthy New York widow moves to Washington, DC, hoping to get “to the heart of the great American mystery of democracy and government.”
Written by
Henry Adams
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A young girl with an overactive imagination comes of age.
Written by
Jane Austen
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Play About a Good Woman
Summary
A witty comedy that subverts the harsh social codes of Victorian England.
Written by
Oscar Wilde
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Drama · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An aristocrat summons a group of “intelligentsia” to vacation in her Italian mansion.
Written by
Aldous Huxley
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
After an English widow on holiday impetuously falls in love with a handsome young Tuscan, her panicked in-laws send a rescue party.
Written by
E. M. Forster
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A jingoistic military officer embarks on a tragicomic quest to become a “perfect soldier.”
Written by
Ernest Howard Crosby
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A witty, sharp collection of sardonic word definitions from the 1800s and early 1900s that provide a snapshot into the irreverent humor of early American culture.
Written by
Ambrose Bierce
Language
English
Category
Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A young writer travels to an English countryside manor to spend the summer alongside a cast of outlandish leisure class intellectuals.
Written by
Aldous Huxley
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, ordered by date of publication.
Written by
Edgar Allan Poe
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Comedy · Horror · Mystery · Satire · Science Fiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A myopic saint mistakenly baptizes some penguins, ushering in a centuries-spanning satire of French history.
Written by
Anatole France
Translated by
A. W. Evans
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An ambitious young woman chafes against the constraints of small-town America.
Written by
Sinclair Lewis
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An Englishman travels to fictional islands where he meets tiny people, giants, magicians and talking horses.
Written by
Jonathan Swift
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A humorous account of life in the fictional small town of Mariposa.
Written by
Stephen Leacock
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of satirical essays ridiculing pretentiousness through imitation.
Written by
Max Beerbohm
Language
English
Category
Satire · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
Summary
The meta-fictional commentary on the life of “famous” German philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh and his Philosophy of Clothes.
Written by
Thomas Carlyle
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Or, an Oxford Love Story
Summary
A beautiful magician unsuspectingly casts her charms on quiet Oxford.
Written by
Max Beerbohm
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An Abyssinian prince embarks on adventures while exploring the meaning of happiness.
Written by
Samuel Johnson
Language
English
Category
Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A poor Irish rogue tries to win fame and fortune in the 18th-century English aristocracy.
Written by
William Makepeace Thackeray
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Satire
Source
Standard Ebooks