Satire Books

Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle

Sartor Resartus (meaning 'The tailor re-tailored') is an 1836 novel by Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833–August 1834. The novel purports to be a comment..

Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story

Sir Max Beerbohm

Zuleika Dobson an Oxford love story is a satirical novel by Max Beerbohm, an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a h..

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726)

Henry Carey

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) is a satire by Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon KG, was an English nobleman and courtier. He was the patron of Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare'..

The Golden Honeymoon

Ring Lardner

The Golden Honeymoon is a humorous novel written by American short story writer Ring Lardner, known for his satire, humor works on marriage and theater.  This novel narrates the two couples vacat..

Voyage du Prince Fan-Federin dans la romancie

G.-H. Bougeant

Voyage du Prince Fan-Federin dans la romancie is a French satirical romance written by Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant, known as le Père Bougeant a French Jesuit and historian...

Shamela

Henry Fielding

Shamela is a satire written by Henry Fielding, an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones...

The Swoop!

P. G. Wodehouse

The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standi..

Barry Lyndon

William Makepeace Thackeray

Barry Lyndon—far from the best known, but by some critics acclaimed as the finest, of Thackeray’s works—appeared originally as a serial a few years before VANITY FAIR was written; yet it was not publi..