satire

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satire

Rebelio?n en la granja

A graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" a political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Candide

The classical satire that traces the misadventures of Candide who is shipwrecked, robbed, tortured, and separated from his love without losing his will to live a happy life.

My sister, the serial killer

a novel
Korede, is in love with a handsome doctor at the Nigerian hospital where she works, but can't bring herself to pursue him because her sister, Ayoola, has a habit of killing her boyfriends--three so far--which means she's officially a serial killer. But the doctor then asks Korede for Ayoola's number, and Korede must decide how far she's willing to go to protect her sister.

Los viajes de Gulliver

Describes the astonishing voyage of Lemuel Gulliver to surreal kingdoms inhabited by miniature people and giants, quack philosophers and scientists, horses endowed with reason, and men who behave like beasts.

The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

2010
A reprint of the novel in which an African prince embarks on a pilgrimage to Egypt, and along the way he and his companions ponder subjects such as love, flights of imagination, the great discoveries of science, and the meaning of happiness.

A clergyman's daughter

2011
Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter, grows up with a tyrannical father, but when she blacks out one day, and ends up with amnesia, wandering the streets of Kent, and sleeping in Trafalgar Square, she loses more than just memory.

The custom of the country

2006
Beautiful Undine Spragg from Apex, Kansas, is a social climber. Her society career, marriages, divorces, and conquests are all part of her greed.

Zed

a novel
In a world dominated by mega-corporation Beetle--whose infallible predictive algorithm has developed society to be the best possible version of itself--Beetle CEO Guy Matthias lives like the king of the world. Then, things fall apart for him in the midst of rumors of minor glitches in the system, an anomaly called "Zed," attacks from the hacker "Gogol," his wife threatening to leave over his infidelity, and the probable loss of a game-changing deal with China. Suddenly, Guy, at the top of the world, feels powerless.

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