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sumoofu04
02-03-2004, 09:45 PM
What are 8 good pieces of satirical literature (include authors' names)
Shea
02-04-2004, 09:29 AM
What about Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal? I hear Irish children are a delicacy anymore!:eek: :p
Sindhu
02-05-2004, 01:48 AM
If you're including poetry, you can't beatDryden's MacFlecknoe. It simply TEARS pieces off the victims!
sloegin
02-05-2004, 04:20 AM
Candide by Voltaire
piquant
02-06-2004, 11:31 PM
Canterbury Tales
ajoe
02-12-2004, 07:27 PM
By any chance, is this a school assignment..?
Admin
02-13-2004, 12:51 AM
Swift's Gulliver's Travels would work too.

The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
atiguhya padma
02-13-2004, 07:08 PM
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
Sancho
02-25-2004, 05:03 PM
White Noise, Don Delillo
atiguhya padma
02-25-2004, 06:39 PM
England, England by Julian Barnes
Comrade_Ogilvy
02-25-2004, 06:45 PM
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. And Fight Club by Chuck Palaniuk. Hmm do dystopias count? Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
atiguhya padma
02-25-2004, 07:20 PM
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!!
hal9000
02-27-2004, 01:54 AM
Lolita, NABOKOV

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/nabokovv1.shtml