Titles from our parody / satire fiction genre.
A Modest Proposal [Jonathan Swift]
A Modest Proposal, is a satirical pamphlet where Swift suggests that the Irish people could ease their economic troubles by cooking and eating the poor children of the country. Satire in it's highest form and the original source for the term "a modest proposal".
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A Tale of a Tub [Jonathan Swift]
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Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers [Jonathan Swift]
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Brother Jacob [George Eliot]
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Candide or Optimism [Voltaire]
Candide is a naive young man who gets exiled from the castle of the Baron of Thunder-Ten-Tronckh in Westphalia for kissing his daughter (Cunégonde). Candide embarks on a series of exotic and often horrific adventures which take him around the world in a search for Cunégonde which eventually leads him to enlightenment and wisdom.
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Crotchet Castle [Thomas Love Peacock]
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Daniel Deronda [George Eliot]
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Headlong Hall [Thomas Love Peacock]
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Maid Marian [Thomas Love Peacock]
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Mr. Midshipman Easy [Frederick Marryat]
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Nightmare Abbey [Thomas Love Peacock]
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Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
Catherine Morland visits Bath, England for the first time with family friends Mr and Mrs Allen. Catherine is pursued by Henry Tilney, who invites her to his father's estate at Northanger Abbey. Catherine has been reading too much gothic fiction and her overactive imagination takes over.
Jane Austen's first novel but only properly published after her death. The novel is a satire of the emotionally charged gothic novels of the time.
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Penguin Island [Anatole France]
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Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdrocke [Thomas Carlyle]
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Sketches of Young Couples [Charles Dickens]
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