The Nobel Prize winner Naipaul's first novel traces the ascent of Ganesh Ramsumair, a former schoolteacher and village masseur, to one of the most popular politicians of his day in Trinidad.
Contains critical articles which analyze important literary works in the satire genre, profiling major authors and their works, and detailing the social, political, and philosophical trends that influenced them.
A young earthworm, upset to discover a hair in his dinner dirt, gets a lesson about the realities of nature from his father, and learns about his importance in the perpetuation of life on Earth.
The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a country ruled by horses.
Kurt Vonnegut's satire about the loss of innocence and the randomness of life and death, in which fifty-year-old Rudy Waltz--who gained the nickname "Deadeye Dick" at the age of twelve after accidentally killing a pregnant woman--discusses the life of his father, who once saved the life of a young Adolf Hitler.
The members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village, falling into a variety of mishaps and outrageous situations.
An illustrated satirical study of modern civilization, presented from the viewpoint of archeologists in 4022 examining artifacts of twentieth-century American life.
