Satire

  • The Pickwick Papers

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    Charles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the membe… [more below]

  • The Pickwick Papers: Introduction by Peter Washington

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    In this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into t

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    • Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
    • Author: Dickens, Charles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 976
    • Publish Date: March 02 1999
    • ISBN10: 0375405488
    • Language: English
  • Headlong

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    An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.

    Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-hi

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    • Series: Bestselling Backlist
    • Author: Frayn, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 01 2000
    • ISBN10: 0312267460
    • Language: English
  • Bad Eminence

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    Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. T

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    • Author: Greer, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: July 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 1913505340
    • Language: English
  • The Mysterious Stranger

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    The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain’s “dark” period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. At the time this work was written, Twain had … [more below]

    • Series: Literary Classics
    • Author: Twain, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 122
    • Publish Date: September 01 1995
    • ISBN10: 1573920398
    • Language: English
  • Lobster Wars

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    Lobster Wars is a tight, fast-paced social satire about what happens when reality TV comes to a small fishing village in Maine. The locals think they’re going to get famous and rich. But it’s never th

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    • Author: Greene, Mark E.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 316
    • Publish Date: January 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1646638492
    • Language: English
  • The Deli Diaries

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    Fresh out of art school with a pile of debt and a broken heart, Della moves into her parents’ basement in suburban Nebraska and lands a “temporary” job as a deli clerk. Struggling to smile under the s

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    • Author: Weber, Ella
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 300
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957607165
    • Language: English
  • Waiting for Al Gore

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    Lenny Beibel, a wannabe journalist, travels to an international environmental conference in rural Vermont, in search of a story that will put him in the big leagues. He sure needs one.

    There he meets R

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    • Author: Katz, Bob
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 276
    • Publish Date: February 20 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798988721321
    • Language: English
  • Prater Violet

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    Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time.” —Diana Trilling

    Originally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the fil

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Isherwood, Christopher
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: February 10 2015
    • ISBN10: 0374535248
    • Language: English
  • Behold the Ape

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    An acerbic, entertaining caper of evolution, gangsters, Darwin’s brain, and the Golden Age of Hollywood.

    When Sonya Orlova, a successful 1930s horror-film actress, crosses paths with a gorilla whose br

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    • Author: Morrow, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 158
    • Publish Date: April 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 168057406X
    • Language: English
  • The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

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    Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade’ of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid?e is the confidence man’? The central motif of Melville’s last and most … [more below]

  • Victor in the Rubble

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    Victor Caro is a counterterrorism officer with the CYA, caught in a world where job security trumps national security. On assignment in West Africa in a post-9/11 world, he is tasked with hunting down

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    • Author: Finley, Alex
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 10 2016
    • ISBN10: 099725100X
    • Language: English
  • The Satyricon

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    The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy pr… [more below]

  • Old Enemies: A Satire

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    In an America running on algorithms, outrage, and half-truths, ex-journalist Moses Shea is down on his luck. Blacklisted in New York, dumped by the only woman he ever loved, he has one skill that migh

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    • Author: Oser, Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 262
    • Publish Date: September 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 9798986315904
    • Language: English
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Large Print Edition

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    LARGE PRINT EDITION. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, follows a young boy who goes by the name “Huck.” Raised under the roof of his drunken father while fearing for his life, Huck es

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    • Series: Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)
    • Author: Twain, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 756
    • Publish Date: August 30 2022
    • ISBN10: 1513137360
    • Language: English
  • Missy’s Twitch

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    Heiress to an energy fortune built off fossil fuels, recent college graduate Missy Mayburn Crowe is stricken with overwhelming anxiety over what she fears is a looming “climate apocalypse” and her fam

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    • Author: Pepper, Jon
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986262963
    • Language: English
  • Paradise Reclaimed

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    From the Nobel Prize winner comes a captivating novel about an idealistic Icelandic farmer who journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise. – “Full of an earthy poetry…a style wonderfully[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Laxness, Halldor
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: April 02 2002
    • ISBN10: 0375727582
    • Language: English
  • Monsignor Quixote

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    When Father Quixote, a local priest of the Spanish village of El Toboso who claims ancestry to Cervantes’ fictional Don Quixote, is elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, he sets … [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Greene, Graham
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 30 2008
    • ISBN10: 0143105523
    • Language: English
  • Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott

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    Sinclair Lewis’s barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God’s Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrow-mindedness and smug complacenc[more below]

    • Author: Lewis, Sinclair
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: October 01 1995
    • ISBN10: 0140189017
    • Language: English
  • Inappropriation

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    “This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment.” — Emma Cline, author of The Girls

    A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of ide

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    • Author: Freiman, Lexi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: July 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 0062699741
    • Language: English
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