What are 8 good pieces of satirical literature (include authors' names)
What are 8 good pieces of satirical literature (include authors' names)
What about Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal? I hear Irish children are a delicacy anymore!
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
If you're including poetry, you can't beatDryden's MacFlecknoe. It simply TEARS pieces off the victims!
I'm nobody, who are you?
Are you nobody too?
There's a pair of us, don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know!
How dreary to be somebody!
Candide by Voltaire
Canterbury Tales
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, and of thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, sell one, and with the dole buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
By any chance, is this a school assignment..?
You're just another bastard.
Swift's Gulliver's Travels would work too.
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Tristram Shandy - Lawrence Sterne
The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
Shamela - Henry Fielding
Atomised - Michel Houllebecq
Headlong - Michael Frayn
Mr Phillips - John Lanchester
Finding Myself - Toby Litt
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
White Noise, Don Delillo
Uhhhh...
England, England by Julian Barnes
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. And Fight Club by Chuck Palaniuk. Hmm do dystopias count? Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
"Batman defeats Aquaman many times over"
Ah well... if dystopias count, then Lanark by Alasdair Gray.
Quarantine by Jim Crace.
Butler's Hudibras
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self - in fact absolutely anything by Will Self!!
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
Lolita, NABOKOV
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audioin...abokovv1.shtml
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