eBooks „parody“
46 eBooks were found for the search term „parody“.
SIR JOHN FALSTAFFE
THE THEATER (1720)
- History
- English
- 15238 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare. In the two Henry IV plays, he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. In The Merry Wives of Windsor he is the buffoonish suitor of two married women.
Though primarily a comic figure, Falstaff still embodies a kind of depth common to Shakespeare's major characters. A fat, vain, boastful, and cowardly knight, he spends most of his time drinking at the Boar's Head Inn with petty criminals, living on stolen or borrowed money. Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, and is ultimately repudiated after Hal becomes king.
In Act II, Scene III of Henry V, his death is described by Mistress Quickly in terms that parody Plato's description of the death of Socrates. [more]
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Barry Pain
The New Gulliver and Other Stories
- Fiction
- English
- 56980 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[1] He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.[2]
In 1889, Cornhill Magazine's editor, James Payn, published his story "The Hundred Gates", and shortly afterwards Pain became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, and joined the staffs of the Daily Chronicle and Black and White.[2] Pain supposedly "owes his discovery to Robert Louis Stevenson, who compares him to De Maupassant".[3] From 1896 to 1928 he was a regular contributor to the Windsor Magazine. He died in Bushey, in Hertfordshire and is buried in Bushey churchyard.
Pain's works include : [more]
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Barry Pain
If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson
- Fiction
- English
- 17339 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Barry Eric Odell Pain (28 September 1864 – 5 May 1928) was an English journalist, poet and writer.Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[1] He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.[2]In 1889, Cornhill Magazine's editor, James Payn, published his story "The Hundred Gates", and shortly afterwards Pain became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, and joined the staffs of the Daily Chronicle and Black and White.[2] Pain supposedly "owes his discovery to Robert Louis Stevenson, who compares him to De Maupassant".[3] From 1896 to 1928 he was a regular contributor to the Windsor Magazine. [more]
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Henry Sydnor Harrison
Queed (Fiscle Part-4)
- Short Story
- English
- 141241 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
_First Meeting Between A Citizen In Spectacles And The Great
Pleasure-Dog Behemoth; Also Of Charles Gardiner West, A Personage
At Thirty._
It Was Five Of A November Afternoon, Crisp And Sharp, And Already
Running Into Dusk. Down The Street Came A Girl And A Dog, Rather A Small
Girl And Quite A Behemothian Dog. If She Had Been A Shade Smaller, Or He
A Shade More Behemothian, The Thing Would Have Approached A Parody On
One's Settled Idea Of A Girl And A Dog. She Had Enough Height To Save
That, But It Was The Narrowest Sort Of Squeak.
The Dog Was Of The Breed Which Are Said To Come Trotting Into Alpine
Monasteries Of A Winter's Night With Fat American Travelers In Their
Mouths, Frozen Stiff. He Was Extremely Large For His Age, Whatever That
Was. On The Other Hand, The Girl Was Small For Her Age, Which Was
Twenty-Four Next Month; Not So Much Short, You Understand, For She Was
Of A Reasonable Height, As Of A Dainty Slimness, A Certain Exquisite
Reticence Of The Flesh. She Had Cares And Duties And Even Sober-Sided
Responsibilities In This World, Beyond The Usual Run Of Girls. Yet Her
Hat Was Decidedly Of The Mode That Year; Her Suit Was Smartly And
Engagingly Cut; Her Furs Were Glossy And Black And Big. Her Face, It May
Be Said Here As Well As Later, Had In Its Time Given Pleasure To The
Male Sex, And Some Food For Critical Conversation To The Female. A Good
Many Of The Young Men Whom She Met Along The Way This Afternoon Appeared
Distinctly Pleased To Speak To Her. [more]
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Philip Spires
A Search For Donald Cottee
From Kiddington collier to Benidorm blogger
- Humor
- English
- 3953 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 745
- 1
A Search For Donald Cottee is a novel about individualism. It’s also a parody of Don Quixote, reinterpreting the Don’s quest in contemporary terms and also using several of the scenes from Cervantes’s tome.
Donkey and his wife, Poncho Suzie, have retired to Benidorm on Spain´s Costa Blanca. Don has left behind his incessant self-education and Suzie has turned the corner of her illness. Their new life is parked on the salubrious La Manga campsite and from there they pursue their ambition of eternal holiday. To savour the developing experience, and to make its potential paradise available to all, they blog.
But they can never escape their origins, even as their new future unfolds, perhaps disintegrates into the present. Episodes from the past reappear, reincarnate themselves. Don’s environmental campaigning and Suzie’s quest for business success fill the time.
And then they discover that their friends, some old, some new, some related, others not, are transacting the businesses of their own lives. There is money in vice, more in property, even more in merely trading people.
In a world where competition is the norm, where a dog’s only possible diet is another dog, Don and Suzie are determined to do good works, to be honest and loyal to all, to support what is right. But then, in the final analysis, when the jigsaw of lives is broken apart, we see that perhaps the pieces never did fit. And so, still trying to do good, Donkey Cottee and Poncho Suzie leave us with an enigma. Or is it a riddle? [more]
Keywords: benidorm, spain, quixote, retire, england, north, humour, humor, blog, holiday, costa blanca
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Ashok Aatreya
All the beautiful daughters of Mara
- Fiction
- English
- 111731 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 10590
- 9
A novel written by Ashok atreya is an attempt of embodying the para-psychological, ethereal and day-to-day experiences of the hero. The Key to this novel is very clearly explained in the 54th chapter with the same title " All the beautiful Daughters of Mara", in which Anand, the hero, tells us the story of his previous births, where he visualizes the past and present where his unfulfilled desire for eternal love accentuates with unending lust for life, get freely expressed.
The myth of "All the beautiful Daughters of Mara" existing parallel to his own span of life, of which only present is visible and the rest of the episodes in his previous births, Anand experiences as and when he encounters them.
The overall development of this novel could only be examined with the help of a "Tantrik-based parody", where not only the sequence of Janma-Janmantra is added for an additional fervor, exposing the hero's passion and lust through and through but also his predicament of being a helpless victim in the hands of mystic destiny.
The author has picked up an apparently mystic theme. Unconsciously, as he has inherited the tradition of religion, Indian mythology and Tantra from his ancestors, but the beauty of the work lies in the fact of a secular approach to life omitting the bondages of caste and creed. In this background, this work of fiction becomes para-modern!
The libidinal instinct of Anand in his present and previous births, attaches with himself a number of voluptuous women belonging to various ethnic backgrounds. Tantra, as a distinctive sect of Hindu worship tradition, has very significant role of "Panch-Makars" and, therefore, the Omni-presence of women around the hero is the internal necessity of the theme, which results into many neo-vam-margi experience. This is, thus, a novel-departure in the field of contemporary Indian English writing.
The novelist has very aptly casted valid comment on the degeneration of present political scenario by elevating the police -shooter, an encounter-specialist to the supreme office of the President. (this is just like The then President of Pakistan General Parvez Musharraf (Who started his career as an ordinary military commando) These are not mere fiction fantasies but all around us, we find such absurdities taking shape !
The sub-titles attributed to 58 chapters lucidly establish the internal consistency of unbelievable episodes full of love, lust and crime, tied with an unseen threads of births and rebirths.
Naturally such a theme has interminable prospective of constructing stories -interesting and unending, of which Ashok Aatreya, as a fiction writer, has all the potential. [more]
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