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  • A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

    by Samuel Brunt ...
    The novel is a political and social satire that lampoons various aspects of English society and politics during the early 18th century. Through the device of a fictional voyage to the imaginary land of Cacklogallinia, Brunt criticizes the corruption, hypocrisy, and absurdities he observed in contemporary British life.In "A Voyage to Cacklogallinia," Brunt employs humor and exaggeration to ridicule ... Read more

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  • The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

    The Misanthrope, The Flying Doctor, The Satyricon, The Headswoman, dise Garden, The Absentee, etc.

    by Molière, St. John Hankin, Elizabeth F. Guptill, Petronius Arbiter, Anthony Trollope, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Carlyle, George Gibbs, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, Herman Melville, Maria Edgeworth, Marietta Holley, Anatole France, Nelson Lloyd, Voltaire, Samuel Brunt, Archibald Marshal, Gilbert Knox, H. H. Sir Bashford, P. G. Wodehouse, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Love Peacock, William Carlos Williams, Terry Southern, Hilaire Belloc, Iris Barry, C. M. Westmacott, Desiderius Erasmus, I. J. Potter, Montague Glass, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Elkanah Settle, Samuel Pordage, Bernard Mandeville, James Thomson, G. W. Foote, Marie Corelli, William Herman, Mark Twain, Ingersoll Lockwood, Jonathan Swift, T. Smollett, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Bertram Gayton, George S. Schuyler, Eugen Richter, Walter Harte, Aristophanes, Bill Nye, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Bridges, James Bramston, Ambrose Bierce, Franklin P. Adams, John Hervey Baron Hervey, An M. D., Frank Chapman Bliss ...
    The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads offers a rich tapestry of wit, irony, and cultural critique, spanning centuries and showcasing the evolution of satirical literature. With its diverse range of styles from the sharp societal observations of the Enlightenment to the tongue-in-cheek modernity of the 20th century this anthology captures the spirit and scope of satire's unyielding challenge to ... Read more

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  • A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

    Enriched edition. With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country

    by Samuel Brunt, Linus Holloway ...
    In "A Voyage to Cacklogallinia," Samuel Brunt crafts an engaging satirical narrative that intricately blends elements of travel literature with social commentary. Set in a fantastical realm, the book explores a fictional society that amplifies the absurdities of contemporary life through exaggerated customs and characters. Brunt's keen wit and imaginative prose invite readers to reflect on the ... Read more

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  • A Voyage to Cacklogallinia / With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country

    by Samuel Brunt ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Said to have been the inspiration for Gulliver's Travels. A Gulliver like social satire about a man who gets washed up on an island run by giant chickens. Later the chickens make an expedition to the moon to mine for gold. (Goodreads) ... Read more

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  • A Voyage to Cacklogallina

    by Samuel Brunt ...
    Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Representative of the type of moon-voyages being published prior to the 19th century: full of sharp satire, high adventure and low humor. The pseudonymous "Samuel Brunt" is taken to the moon by the inhabitants of Cacklogallinia: a race of giant, intelligent chickens. Originally published in ... Read more

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  • A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

    by Captain Samuel Brunt ...
    A Voyage to Cacklogallinia appeared in London, in 1727, under the pseudonymous author "Captain Samuel Brunt". Whilst the work of satire has been sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift, the true author remains yet unknown.The novel is remarkable in that it features one of the first "Voyages to the Moon" later used as a plot device in many Science Fiction works as well as giving the ... Read more

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  • Utopia

    by Thomas More ...
    What if a perfect society could exist—free from greed, corruption, and inequality? First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most influential works of political philosophy and social commentary ever written. Presented as a dialogue, the book describes an imaginary island where justice, equality, and communal living replace the flaws of European society in More's time. Blending ... Read more

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  • Oroonoko

    by Aphra Behn ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues . . .'Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels ... Read more

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  • Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave

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    by Aphra Behn ...
    Oroonoko is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688, concerning the love of its hero, an enslaved African in Surinam in the 1660s, and the author's own experiences in the new South American colony. Behn worked for Charles II as a spy during the outset of the Second Dutch War, ending up destitute when she returned to England, and even spending time in a debtors' ... Read more

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  • Oroonoko

    Or, The Royal Slave, A True Story

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    Series series The Art of the Novella
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  • The Isle of Pines

    A Late Discovery of a Fourth Island near Terra Australis Incognita

    by Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten, Henry Neville ...
    The Isle of Pines is a book by Henry Neville published in 1668. An example of Utopian fiction, the book presents its story through an Epistolary frame: a "Letter to a friend in London, declaring the truth of his Voyage to the East Indies" written by a fictional Dutchman "Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten," concerning the discovery of an island in the southern hemisphere, populated with the descendants ... Read more

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  • 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 2]

    by Oscar Wilde, Rebecca West, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Upton Sinclair, Walter Scott, William Somerset Maugham, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Jack London, Rabindranath Tagore, Stendhal, Mark Twain, James Joyce, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, H. P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Dale Carnegie, Margaret Cavendish, G.K Chesterton, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Vatsyayana, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Horatio Alger Jr, Susan Coolidge, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Hollis Godfrey, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Henry Rider Haggard, Pieter Harting, O. Henry, Arthur Morrison, Presbourg Press ...
    This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a BoatJoyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James: UlyssesKingsley, Charles: The Water-BabiesKipling, Rudyard: KimLa Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. H.: Sons and LoversLawrence, ... Read more

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