Satire
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Oliver Twist: Introduction by Michael Slater
$30.00 Add to cartOliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, howev
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679417249
- Language: English
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
$29.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“Extraordinary. Tokarczuk’s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fier
“A brilliant literary murder mystery.” —Chicago Tribune- Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0525541330
- Language: English
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Hits and Misses: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartA hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer’s real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social med… [more below]
- Author: Rich, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316468886
- Language: English
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Monday Starts on Saturday
$17.99 Add to cartSasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, who… [more below]
- Author: Strugatsky, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1613739230
- Language: English
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The English Experience
$29.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow – The bestselling … [more below]
- Series: The Dear Committee Trilogy
- Author: Schumacher, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0593860748
- Language: English
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Gulliver’s Travels
$6.00 Add to cartGreat classic by preeminent prose satirist of the English language, written with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail. An enchanting fantasy for children; for adults, a witty parody of… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0486292738
- Language: English
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Cosmopolis
$18.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis is the thirteenth novel by one of America’s most celebrated writers.
It is an April day in the year 20- Author: Delillo, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: April 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0743244257
- Language: English
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
$9.95 Read moreSet during the Roaring Twenties, this witty social satire of the Jazz Age was a runaway bestseller in 1925. Written in diary form, the story follows the escapades of gold-digging flapper Lorelei Lee a… [more below]
- Author: Loos, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0486850730
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Desire
$53.27 Add to cartMeet Puchy Mushkin, the hero of this “fast-paced phantasmagoric satire of a debauched contemporary LA…” (1) who “vows to live a life devoid of want…” (2) while thrusting himself into “the wildest
- Author: Shallman, Morty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: January 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986354804
- Language: English
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Then We Came to the End
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is “as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.” (TIME)
No one knows- Author: Ferris, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 031601639X
- Language: English
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The Very Nice Box
$17.99 Add to cart“A quirky, deeply satisfying, whip-smart debut that critiques corporate culture and male entitlement while also offering a heartfelt look at how to work through grief. Meticulously constructed and tru
- Author: Gleichman, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0358697506
- Language: English
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Our Mutual Friend: Introduction by Andrew Sanders
$34.00 Read moreWhen John Harmon–who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him–is found floating dead in the Thames, he sets in motion a story overflowing with cases of dece
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0679420282
- Language: English
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We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works
$18.99 Add to cartCalled “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in … [more below]
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0306822784
- Language: English
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The Suitcase
$15.95 Add to cartSergei Dovlatov’s subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects–the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from th… [more below]
- Author: Dovlatov, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437335
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
$15.00 Add to cartThis award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel.
Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggr- Author: Habiby, Emile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1623717027
- Language: English
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
$17.00 Add to cartThe Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable
- Series: Burroughs, William S.
- Author: Burroughs, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: January 12, 1994
- ISBN10: 0802133312
- Language: English
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A Handful of Dust
$19.99 Add to cartSelected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this “absolutely delightful” novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disin… [more below]
- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216267
- Language: English
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Empire of Lies
$18.99 Add to cartSustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has built a stable family and become a pillar of principle and patriotism in the Midwest. Then the phone rings, and his past is on the other end of th
- Author: Klavan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033569
- Language: English
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The N-Word of God
$29.99 Add to cartThe N-Word of God is a literary graphic novel of interconnected illustrated stories of social insight, cognitive surprise, wry mirth, and Black existential wonder. Artist Mark Doox transports readers … [more below]
- Author: Doox, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1683969391
- Language: English
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QAnon A thru Z: My Baby’s First Conspiracy Theories
$12.99 Add to cartThe early 2020s were a heck of a ride. QAnon A thru Z illustrates some of the more exciting conspiracy theories and the best alternative facts from our alt friends and family all in alphabetical order… [more below]
- Author: Bernardi, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: August 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1088063152
- Language: English
