Satire
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Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet
$15.00 Add to cartAn Italian journalist gets wrapped up in the criminality and cultural controversies of modern Turin in this “very funny” satirical novel (The New York Times).
It’s October 2006. The northern Italian t- Author: Lakhous, Amara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1609451880
- Language: English
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Ryder
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.
Told as through a kaleidoscope, t
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barnes, Djuna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1628974982
- Language: English
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The Girl in Green
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before.
1991: One hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border,
- Author: Miller, Derek B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745503
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s the History of England: Writings from Her Youth
$9.95 Read moreThe author of one of the greatest romance novels of all time, Pride and Prejudice, takes her readers on a satiric tour through England’s history, mercilessly exploiting the comedic potential of human … [more below]
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851400
- Language: English
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Red Pyramid: Selected Stories
$18.95 Add to cartExtended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorok… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378205
- Language: English
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The Nihilist’s Pocket Survival Guide to Modern Society
$14.98 Add to cartThe perfect antidote for Boomer, Millennial, and GenXYZ angst!
Rectum Leviticus is an avowed nihilist. His name and unusual backstory propelled him to adopt an approach to life best characterized as,
- Author: Cheque, Tungyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Western Alliances
$29.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt’s Western Alliances is a vivid portrait of a wealthy family set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis. Th
- Author: Barnhardt, Wilton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1250090008
- Language: English
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award
“Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book Review
From the PEN/He
- Author: Fountain, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0060885610
- Language: English
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Vile Bodies
$18.99 Add to cart“A wickedly witty and iridescent novel” (Time) from one of England’s greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s.
In the yea- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216348
- Language: English
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Main Street
$7.95 Add to cartThe first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy c… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0451530985
- Language: English
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The Plague Dogs
$19.00 Add to cartThis modern-day classic is an unforgettable tale of fantasy and adventure, a powerful exploration of the limits of human cruelty and kindness. A “gripping … compelling tale of emotional force and hi… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1101970693
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$7.99 Add to cartOf all Dickens’s novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of … [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0553211897
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist
$5.95 Add to cartOne of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius.
This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a nove- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0451529715
- Language: English
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Decline and Fall
$18.99 Add to cartEvelyn Waugh’s “irresistible” first novel (New York Times) is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s.
Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeath- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216313
- Language: English
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Entitled: Life isn’t easy when you’re a book
$16.99 Add to cartEntitled is a love letter to books, travel and the people we meet along the way.
Life isn’t easy when you’re a book.
This charming, humorous, warm-hearted novel captures the extraordinary adventures of
- Author: Boyle, Cookie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1777353408
- Language: English
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Brave New Worlds
$19.99 Read moreBrave New Worlds collects the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today’s most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kurt Vonnegu… [more below]
- Author: Adams, John Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1597804541
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel
$13.00 Add to cartWhen J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts,… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437509
- Language: English
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Wel
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 1594481520
- Language: English
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The Bostonians
$11.00 Add to cart‘There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death’
Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wea
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437665
- Language: English
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The Blazing World
$18.99 Add to cartNamed one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly‘s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of… [more below]
- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1476747245
- Language: English
