Satire Books

In the Sweet Dry and Dry

Christopher Morley

Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the case may be, strike out with various over-top methods like legi..

Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself - Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man

Henry Howarth Bashford

A glance at the frontispiece will show me as I appeared at the age of twenty-one. But I propose in the first instance to deal with my earliest surroundings and the influence exerted upon me by my fath..

Lambkin's Remains

Hilaire Belloc

The acute eye of friendship and sympathy, coupled with the instincts of a scholar and a gentleman, perceived my irritation, and in the evening Lambkin uttered the memorable words that I have quoted. I..

Pictures of the Socialistic Future

Eugen Richter

In 1893 Socialism in this country was a subject for academic discussion. In 1907 it has its representatives and its party in parliament, and it may soon arrive within the range of practical politics. ..

The Aftermath Or Gleanings from a Busy Life

Hilaire Belloc

This work needs no apology. Its value to the English-speaking world is two-fold. It preserves for all time, in the form of a printed book, what might have been scattered in the sheets of ephemeral pub..

Satire in the Victorian novel

Frances Theresa Russell

The indifferent or repellent nature of a subject, even though triple distilled, has nothing to do, however, with its value as a topic for investigation. I present this study neither as apologist nor e..

The Slaves of Society: A Comedy in Covers

Allen Upward

While the marchioness was confiding her maternal anxieties to Mr. Despencer’s sympathetic ear, her daughter, Lady Victoria Mauleverer, was engaged in calmly defying her affectionate parent’s behests.&..

Cutie: A Warm Mamma

Ben Hecht

In her twenty-first birthday, this warm mamma met an over ripe quince who had been named Herman Pupick by his unfortunate parents. A word about Herman. Our hero was one of triplets. His father, Rudolp..