satire

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Topical Term
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satire

Candide, or, Optimism

1983
A philosophical novel satirizing the optimistic creed "All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, " through the misadventures of Candide.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels

2008
A graphic novel adaptation of Jonathan Swift's satire in which the voyages of an Englishman carry him to a land of people six inches high and a community of giants.

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and race in America

2004
Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Mark Twain's novel, Huckleberry Finn, which was published in the late nineteenth century and has been banned frequently since then for his use of racial epithets or simply for being coarse.

Animal farm

2004
A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Northanger Abbey

1999
Young Catherine Morland's entry into nineteenth-century English society is attended by the collapse of many romantic illusions.

Going postal

2005
Moist von Lipwig, alias Alfred Spangler, is given a choice of either reviving the Ankh-Morpork Post Office or death, but getting the system up and running again proves to be a near-impossible task.

Gulliver's travels

and "A modest proposal"
2005
Presents the complete text to Jonathan Swift's classic novel "Gulliver's Travels" along with "A Modest Proposal, " a political satire, and contains a chronology of Swift's life and works, timeline of significant events, explanatory and textual notes, and critical essays.

Gulliver's travels

2003
Presents Jonathan Swift's satire in which a shipwrecked Englishman encounters bizarre populations in unheard-of lands, including an enlightened race of horses that makes him see his fellow humans in a different light; and includes explanatory notes and a note on the text, which is based on the 1726 edition.

The terrible twos

1999
A satirical tale ranging from Christmas to Christmas, 1980 to 1990, in which the "Bosses" now own America's Presidency, Congress, and Religion and want to buy the exclusive rights to Santa Claus.

Northanger Abbey

2008
Young Catherine Morland's entry into nineteenth-century English society is attended by the collapse of many of her romantic illusions.

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