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The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...
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The Satirical and Bitter Side of Mark Twain. "Man is made of dirt, I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities, he comes today and is gone tomorrow, he begins as dirt and departs as stench. I am of the aristocracy of the Imperishables. And man has the Moral Sense. You understand? He has the Moral Sense. That would seem to be difference enough between us, all by itself." The Mysterious Stranger and Other...
3) Masi
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On chuchote que, grâce à La flûte enchantée de Mozart, le citoyen Dieuseul Lapénuri est nommé ministre aux Valeurs morales et citoyennes, avec le mandat d'arrêter la dégradation des mœurs et l'abomination qui gangrènent la République. L'île sombre dans la luxure. Le président se croise les bras et s'amuse à jouir, en criant Whitman, Rimbaud et Baudelaire. Entretemps, la première édition du festival gay et lesbien Festi Masi est annoncée....
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Die Ehe im Rückfall und andere Anzüglichkeiten (Satiren)
Unglaublichkeiten (Satiren)
Das Buch der 1000 Wunder
Das Geheimnis der Sprache (Essay)
Der Venuspark
Die Romane der Herrin
Verschwimmende Epochen
Erotische Seitensprünge
Einstein-Einblicke in seine Gedankenwelt (Essay)
Entthronte Gottheiten (Essay)
Die Inseln der Weisheit (Utopischer Roman)
Von Genies und Kamelen (Satiren)
Das Panorama meines Lebens (Autobiografie)
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Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds that the water is seriously contaminated. He notifies members of the community and initially receives support and thanks for the discovery. Threatened by the possible impact of such a revelation, his brother, the town mayor, conspires...
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Excerpt: "I do not know whether this will awaken a sympathetic lassitude in, say, fifty per cent. of its readers, or whether my experience is unique and my testimony simply curious. At any rate, it is as true as I can make it. Whether this is a mere mood, and a certain flagrant exhilaration my true attitude towards things, or this is my true attitude and the exuberant phase a lapse from it, I cannot say. Probably it does not matter. The thing is that...
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"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage,...
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This Misery of Boots is a 1907 political tract by H. G. Wells advocating socialism. Published by the Fabian Society, This Misery of Boots is the expansion of a 1905 essay with the same name. Its five chapters condemn private property in land and means of production and calls for their expropriation by the state "not for profit, but for service.
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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 known as "Hump," is a bar owner whose business is undercut by strict alcohol regulations. Adult beverages can only be sold when a pub sign in present. But instead, of adhering to the rules,...
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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842. Bierce is critically best remembered for his fiction and many other writings are also generally regarded as some of the best war writings of all time. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions....
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Extrait : "Faut-il qu'ils aient travaillé, les gorilles, travaillé avec une rage inlassable et un stupéfiant génie de la malfaisance pour avoir si vite obtenu ces vastes dévastations qui, à mesure qu'on avance, se déroulent toujours ! C'est tout un grand lambeau de notre pays qui a cessé d'exister."
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Fanny Burney's renowned epistolary novel is a satirical tale detailing a young woman's journey through eighteenth-century London's fashionable society. Evelina is an early example of romanticism, sensibility, and the novel of manners.
Evelina Anville is a beautiful young woman who falls into the wrong circles after leaving her secluded home for the first time. The story takes place in both London and Hot Wells, Bristol, in a series of letters....
13) I Am a Cat
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Written over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as...
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Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders is a darkly satiric take on two of the most famous cases of our era: the kidnapping of heiress, Patty Hearst, and the shocking assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and gay leader Harvey Milk. As a reporter for the Berkeley Barb, Paul Krassner was ringside at the spectacular California trials. Krassner's deadpan, hilarious style captures the nightmare reality behind the absurdities of the courtroom...
15) Mémoires turcs
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Extrait: "Puisque je me trouve dans un pays si fertile en auteurs, on me permettra bien de l'être aussi. Un Turc, quoi qu'on en dise à Paris, est un homme comme un autre. Les Français, naturellement polis, me pardonneront sans doute les fautes que je ferai en leur langue. Je l'avais apprise dans mon enfance avec assez de soin, mais je l'ai un peu négligée, depuis quelques années."
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16) Satires
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Extrait : "Pour tous rimeurs, habitants du Parnasse, De par Phébus il est plus d'une place : Les rangs n'y sont confondus comme ici, Et c'est raison. Ferait beau voir aussi, Le fade auteur d'un roman ridicule, Sur même lit couché près de Catulle ; Ou bien Lamotte ayant l'honneur du pas, Sur le harpeur ami de Mécénas : Trop bien Phébus sait de sa république, Régler les rangs et l'ordre hiérarchique ; Et, dispensant honneur et dignité, Donne...
17) Le Placard
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Un trentenaire, après des années de formation et de tentatives, trouve enfin un emploi auprès d'un laboratoire public. L'unique tâche qui lui est confiée étant de vérifier le matériel livré chaque matin...
Ses journées se passent ainsi, entre l'ennui et la contemplation du vide. Il s'aperçoit vite qu'il n'est pas le seul à ne rien faire: ses collègues, ses supérieurs, passent leur temps à bricoler des maquettes de navires dissimulées...
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Extrait : "QUOI ! seigneur, vous daignez penser à votre esclave et vous abaisser jusqu'à lui rendre compte de votre séjour en France ? quel excès de bonté ! il semble que vous n'ayez entrepris ce long voyage, que pour m'attacher à vous par de nouveaux bienfaits. Hélas ! comment voulez-vous que je les reconnaisse jamais ? je ne possède rien que je ne tienne de votre générosité : triste état pour une âme reconnaissante."
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Extrait : "La majesté de la justice réside tout entière dans chaque sentence rendue par le juge au nom du peuple souverain. Jérme Crainquebille, marchand ambulant, connut combien la loi est auguste, quand il fut traduit en police correctionnelle pour outrage à un agent de la force publique."
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20) Main Street
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Carol, a college-bred girl, marries a small town doctor. She tries to uplift the natives of the small town.
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