satire
71The Patrician , John Galsworthy (1911)
1911. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. The… 1315 руб72Horace , Theodore Martin (1891)
Horace himself had manifestly watched the angry surges from the cliffs of Lebedos. But a more interesting record of the Asiatic campaign, inasmuch as it is probably the earliest specimen of Horace's… 687 руб73Razzia sur la Paroisse , Jean-Paul Demure (2005)
Le minable Jean-Mi, vendeur de bibles illustr&# 233;es, d&# 233;barque chez Madame Raymond, tr&# 233;sori&# 232;re de la paroisse Saint-J&# 233;r&# 244;me, chaudement recommand&# 233; par l'abb&#… 1050 руб74Gulliver's Travels , Swift Jonathan (2010)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature… 242 руб75Black Snow , Mikhail Bulgakov (2005)
When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary… 799 руб76Diaboliad , Mikhail Bulgakov (2010)
The five, irreverent, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking… 847 руб77Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Through the Looking-glass , Carroll Lewis (2009)
'But I don't want to go among mad people', Alice remarked.'Oh, you ca'n't help that', said the Cat.'We're all mad here'. The'Alice'books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known… 398 руб78A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , Mark Twain (2008)
When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British… 493 руб79The Great Gatsby , F.Scott Fitzgerald (2011)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been… 226 руб80Catalina , W. Somerset Maugham (2001)
Crippled and disconsolate, sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. Yet that is when she miraculously meets and talks with the… 847 руб
