2007-09-26 14:04:45 · 8 answers · asked by jmiy22 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Mademoiselle Diboix Boudoirs by Jean Paul Garnes
2007-10-04 07:54:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Some deem Gulliver's Travels to be the greatest satire in English literature. It has been called a lot of things: from satire to a children's story, from proto-Science Fiction to a forerunner of the modern novel. Possibly one of the reasons for the book's classic status is that it can be seen as many things to many people.
* a satirical view of the state of European government, and of petty differences between religions.....and of human nature in general
2007-09-26 21:46:39 · answer #2 · answered by The Corinthian 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
All are great answers. Try some of Jonathan Swift's essays. The man was hilarious. A Modest Proposal is one great essay. Then he wrote this one about Victorian psychics where he actually named the day and time some guy was going to die and put it in the paper. When the guy didn't die on that day, he wrote to the paper to say Swift was full of it. Swift wrote back asking if he was sure he wasn't dead and telling him to prove it.
If you want to read some incredible satire - go WAY back and read Juvenal. You will freak at how topical these essays are today - written in the first and second centuries CE. I couldn't believe it the first time I read one. He managed to insult just about everybody. It was like watching Comedy Central. I am a total Juvenal fan.
Pax - C
2007-09-27 00:16:42 · answer #3 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Mark Twain wrote a lot of satire. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is great.
Other sources would be Animal Farm and 1984, also.
2007-10-01 01:12:49 · answer #4 · answered by ladyliberty 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Shakespeare is full of satire and so is alot of Charles Dickens work such as "A Christmas Carol"
In fact the term Scrooge is so well-known as a miser that all you have to do is call someone a scrooge and they know exactly what you mean. The whole book is about deficieny of character someone who is miserly with himself, his money, his time and what happens when he is called on it.
2007-09-26 21:22:40 · answer #5 · answered by Jackie Oh! 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Voltaire- Candide
2007-09-26 21:46:57 · answer #6 · answered by Average Joe 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Petronius--the Satyricon
2007-09-27 02:50:13 · answer #7 · answered by Omar Cayenne 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
candide by voltaire, you should do your own homework
2007-10-02 23:00:10 · answer #8 · answered by jane c 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋