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Mr. H. G. Wells, in his “Outline of History,” was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. Such omissions I have in this brief volume endeavored to supply. And as American history can possibly best be writt... Read more...
Keywords: a parody, outline of history, donald ogden smith, satire, history, historical parody, the algonquin round table
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Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson,... Read more...
Keywords: bleak house, charles dickens, historical fiction, satire, classic literature, english history, mystery novel
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Monologues and Fang Fragments to Provoke and Penetrate.
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- 10789 Words
- Ages 16 and up
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The original title began with "Vampires and Vaginas", but Facebook in all its righteous politically-correct fluff and officialdom bans that explicit advertisement, effectively forcing "self-censorship". This (sorry excuse for a) book is basically a party of spit, p*ss and s... Read more...
Keywords: Heresy, heresy christian history, power play, fantasy free, vengeance, kindle books, fifty shades of grey, kindle-books, sex, war, violence, theology, satire, supernatural, politics, Amazon kindle, God, Church, Christian, Church History, Catholic, Jew, Islam, Imam, Pope, Israel, Jerusalem, Original Sin, Temptation, Seduction, hinduism, women's rights, feminism, sexual abuse, sexism, india, guru, swami [more]
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- English
- 2712 Words
- Ages 16 and up
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This a One-Act play that deals critically with the issue of peace, esprcially as related to Nigeria and the A frican continent, is a masterpiece. For any reader who desires and works for peace in the world, it is an important piece.
Keywords: Peace, War, Revolution, love
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- 3408 Words
- Ages 12 and up
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A Modest Proposal is a satirical essay written and published by Jonathan Swift. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes ... Read more...
Keywords: a modest proposal, jonathan swift, classic literature, satire, dark humor, black comedy, satrical essay
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Penguin Island is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France. It is concerned with grandnarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed of... Read more...
Keywords: penguin island, anatole france, classic literature, nobel prize winner, classic fiction, fantasy, satire, dystopiasn, alternative history, historical literature, historical fiction, historical fantasy, fable, dystopian novel, religious literature, satirical fiction, novel
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The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader. The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a res... Read more...
Keywords: the trial, franz kafka, psychological thriller, satire, modern literature, existential fiction, novel of the absurd
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The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. The novel is based on the (fictional) "Everhard Manuscript" written b... Read more...
Keywords: the iron heel, jack london, futuristic fantasy, satire, dystopian fiction, science fiction, american literature
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- English
- 83302 Words
- Ages 8 and up
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Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, such as the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austen's brothers ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. As in Northanger Abbey, the superficial social life of Ba... Read more...
Keywords: persuasion, jane austen, social satire, historical fiction, romance, historical romance, classic literature, satire, english literature
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Candide is a French satire by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply Optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The wo... Read more...
Keywords: candide, voltaire, satire, dark homur, black comedy, classic literature, french literature, philosophical fiction
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