Satirical fiction and parodies Books

In 17th century Venice a young woman discovers she’s pregnant and comes up with a perfect alibi. She claims she’s had an immaculate conception and will have a virgin birth but this doesn’t stop her family from banishing her to a convent...

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...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Turcaret is a play written by French author Alain Rene Lesage and was first published in 1709. The play is a satirical comedy that exposes the greed and corruption of the French aristocracy in the early 18th century. The plot revolves around the...

""The Humorous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit"" is a comedic novel written by Richard Harris and published in 1883. The story follows the titular character, Farmer Bumpkin, as he embarks on a lawsuit against a wealthy landowner who has allegedly...

""The Man of Straw"" is a novel written by Edwin William Pugh and published in 1896. The story revolves around a young man named Harold Ainsworth, who has inherited a large fortune from his father. However, he is not happy with his life and feels that he...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

That Night And Other Satires is a collection of satirical short stories written by Freeman Tilden and originally published in 1915. The book consists of ten stories that poke fun at various aspects of American society and culture at the turn of the 20th...

Carter doesn't know where he'll end up. Convinced the Earth is flat and that he's been duped by an untrustworthy world for too long, Carter's father is dragging him to an encampment that is both a cult and an uprising. Many characters are hell-bent on...

La historia de El Alienista gira en torno al Dr. Simón Bacamarte, un psiquiatra que llega al pequeño pueblo de Itaguaí y establece una institución mental llamada Casa Verde, donde realiza varios experimentos con la gente del pueblo para determinar quién...

Der Tinder-Bericht ist ein Erfahrungsbericht einer Singlefrau im besten Alter, die sich auf die Onlinepartnersuche einlässt. Ein unterhaltsamer Selbstversuch, mit witzigen, spannenden und zum Teil äußerst kuriosen Geschichten. Sowie offene Briefe an...

Schleswig-Holstein. Nach einer fröhlichen Nacht wachen drei schon ältere Jungs am See auf. Zufällig ist der 70. Jahrestag des WM-Endspiels in Bern, und einem von ihnen fällt ein, dass es da ein Bismarck zugeschriebenes Bonmot gibt: "Sollte die Welt...

Dieses Buch ist nicht dafür gedacht, es selbst zu lesen, es sei denn, man ist ein Lappen.Es ist vielmehr ein passendes Geschenk, wenn du Jemanden für einen Lappen hältst und es der Person einfach mal mitteilen möchtest.Das perfekte Geschenk für den Ex,...

Felix ist ein ehrgeiziger junger Kater, der eines Tages sein Interesse für Design entdeckt. Er fasst den kühnen Plan, ein Studium an der berühmten Bauhaus-Akademie aufzunehmen. Gegen alle Widerstände gelingt es ihm, mit Fleiß und Hartnäckigkeit die...

"Babbitt," penned by the incomparable Sinclair Lewis, stands as a luminous jewel in the crown of American literature, a masterful exploration of the human condition within the bustling backdrop of 1920s Midwest America. Lewis's narrative prowess shines...

Unwilling to settle for lives of quiet mediocrity, a group of locals decide to take matters into their own hands.They hatch a plan to conquer the world, beginning with a certain nearby small town.As they stage a series of heists to acquire resources and...

Reagan, Nixon, and Goldwater, but the presence of these ghosts transports Allardice's novel into a literary netherworld that is always captivating and every once in a while genuinely spooky. This tale of a young artist lost in the woods of America's...

The 2 tomes, Infinity of Zeitgeist Doppelgangers and The Compleat OWL: The Forever Zeitgeist 1950-2050, have been created primarily for a reader-market who hasn't been born yet. Through the lens of satire they will read about the thoughts, beliefs and...

A thrilling and delightful English comedy of stretched family loyalties, romantic entanglements and sinister happenings. A highly entertaining and utterly charming world in which to get lost. Infernal Relations chronicles the start to a season at...

A darkly comic literary novel, LYING BASTARD is set in Long Beach, CA, and is narrated by adjunct English professor Berlin Saunders, who, as the book opens, is playing dead on the classroom floor after a school shooting. The story revolves around a...

Nothing goes as planned when a cold-hearted international thief descends upon the tiny Texas town of Red Dirt. Forced to masquerade as the girlfriend of a local good ol' boy, the thief soon finds herself pulled into the quirky and colorful lives of a...

Eight humorous and satirical adventures of Wilbur Noat and his AI assistant, Fred.

From the author of NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS...PRIDE AND PLATYPUS: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful SecretWhen the moon is full over Regency England, all the gentlemen are subject to its curse.Mr. Darcy, however, harbors a Dreadful Secret.....

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Wackere Eierköpfe - Nonsens und Satire Illustrierte kurze, heitere, komische, groteske, verrückte und gelegentlich besinnliche Dialoge von Eierköpfen.

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

The story of Enfilade takes place in less than twenty- four hours. However, the gist of this shaggy dog story coveys a lot more. It is the tale of a naive second lieutenant's first day in Vietnam. There is a lot for the young man to digest; a lot that...

In a distant country, recently imprisoned filmmaker Vasant Rai is offered a chance at freedom. But the choice, he learns, offers itself at a very steep price. Ravi Mangla's The Observant is a sharp-eyed literary thriller about freedom of expression under...

Getting a vasectomy these days can be a responsible social gesture, but for Hank and Chuck back in 1950s Appalachia, it's but a boozy night's whim and all about hating to use rubbers, leaving them unprepared for how complicated their lives are about to...

Welcome to Walrus Tales-the only anthology of walrusian fictionon the planet. Herein, find tales of all stripes: horrific, satiric, comedic,tragic, erotic, and a bunch of other "-ic" and "non-ic" words, like"Lovecraftian" and "Bizarro."Why devote an...

När den 95-åriga mormodern till den radikala förloraren Nathan Mortimer dör av det upphypade förkylningsvirus-20, bryter Nathan ihop. Fylld med missriktad ilska bestämmer han sig för att bli en seriemördare och mörda ungdomar som är smittade med viruset...

When BOAC Flight 480 disappears from the radar screens over the Mediterranean, passengers and crew are soon posted missing. Three months later what seems to be the same aircraft reappears and lands on an Ionian holiday island. Gathered there are the...

Wherever Cass Baird’s career in academia has taken her, her soul’s compass has always pointed to Forgotten Lake, her childhood home in northern Minnesota. When her parent’s marriage goes on the rocks that sense of home is threatened and...

The Lancashire Wedding: Or Darwin Moralized is a book written by an anonymous author in 1867. The book is a satirical take on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and its impact on society. The story revolves around the wedding of a wealthy Lancashire...

La Fable Des Abeilles V2: Ou Les Fripons Devenus Honnestes Gens (1750) est un livre �����crit par Bernard Mandeville. Il s'agit d'une fable qui raconte l'histoire de fripons qui deviennent des gens honn������tes gr�����ce ������ leur travail et leur...

Les Satyres Bastardes: Et Autres Oeuvres Folastres (1615) par Angoulevent, Nicolas Joubert est un recueil de po�����mes satiriques et humoristiques publi����� au XVIIe si�����cle. Les po�����mes sont �����crits en fran�����ais et sont connus pour leur...

Kensington Gardens, Or The Pretenders: A Comedy is a play written by John Leigh in 1720. The story is set in Kensington Gardens, where two young men, Tom and Jack, pretend to be the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Rochester, respectively. They attempt...

A FUNNY, SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT ACCIDENTAL PEOPLE SMUGGLING.When a strange helicopter starts buzzing the shearing shed where he is hiding 12 illegal immigrants, Major Jeremy Billycock-Smythe jumps to the wrong conclusion.Nothing new about that for this...

Emil Eckstein hat nur eine Woche in den Alpen, um auf andere Gedanken zu kommen. Da verliert er mit seinem Handy jeden Funken externisierten Verstand. Auf Schritt und Tritt überwacht stolpert er durch die Alpenwelt direkt ins Chaos. Doch wer ist die...

Berlin - Kreuzberg: The sometimes-overwhelmed Dad is handed the baton of parenting time after his son turned one. Not always easy. For either of them! But with a lot of wit and sharpness and smaller and bigger challenges.

Johnny Matteo hat es verstanden: Jede Sekunde die er lebt und jedes Wort das er spricht widmet er dem Fortschritt. Nur eine Gesellschaft in der alles, aber auch wirklich alles eine Bedeutung hat, bringt uns Menschen voran. Und während er stumpf auf das...

Romanzen auf der Herrentoilette ist eine gesellschaftskritische Satire. Das Werk beschreibt auf kultivierte Art und Weise das ereignisreiche Leben diverser männlicher, heranwachsender Toilettengänger. Es sind fesselnde Geschichten, gespickt mit Liebe,...

In Zeiten, wo Handelsangestellte und Dienstleister in das fatale Sandwich zwischen Kostensenkungs-Druck (Unternehmen) und Anforderungs-Anstieg (Kunden) gepresst werden, entsteht der Bedarf für eine neue Ordnungsmacht - den Retail Rioter!Als trashige...