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由灵果派精心整理的学习素材。
简介
An entrepreneurial businessman satirically relates to his nephews how he became the wealthiest man in Baghdad.
作者
Hilaire Belloc
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
简介
A young working-class man sets out to become a bourgeois writer.
作者
Jack London
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
An American Novel
简介
A wealthy New York widow moves to Washington, DC, hoping to get “to the heart of the great American mystery of democracy and government.”
作者
Henry Adams
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
简介
A young girl with an overactive imagination comes of age.
作者
Jane Austen
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
A Play About a Good Woman
简介
A witty comedy that subverts the harsh social codes of Victorian England.
作者
Oscar Wilde
语言
English
类型
喜剧 · 戏剧 · 讽刺
简介
An aristocrat summons a group of “intelligentsia” to vacation in her Italian mansion.
作者
Aldous Huxley
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
简介
After an English widow on holiday impetuously falls in love with a handsome young Tuscan, her panicked in-laws send a rescue party.
作者
E. M. Forster
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
简介
A jingoistic military officer embarks on a tragicomic quest to become a “perfect soldier.”
作者
Ernest Howard Crosby
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
简介
A witty, sharp collection of sardonic word definitions from the 1800s and early 1900s that provide a snapshot into the irreverent humor of early American culture.
作者
Ambrose Bierce
语言
English
类型
讽刺
简介
A young writer travels to an English countryside manor to spend the summer alongside a cast of outlandish leisure class intellectuals.
作者
Aldous Huxley
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
简介
A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, ordered by date of publication.
作者
Edgar Allan Poe
语言
English
类型
冒险 · 喜剧 · 恐怖 · 悬疑 · 讽刺 · 科幻 · 短篇
简介
A myopic saint mistakenly baptizes some penguins, ushering in a centuries-spanning satire of French history.
作者
Anatole France
译者
A. W. Evans
语言
English
类型
喜剧 · 虚构 · 讽刺
简介
An ambitious young woman chafes against the constraints of small-town America.
作者
Sinclair Lewis
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
简介
An Englishman travels to fictional islands where he meets tiny people, giants, magicians and talking horses.
作者
Jonathan Swift
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
简介
A humorous account of life in the fictional small town of Mariposa.
作者
Stephen Leacock
语言
English
类型
喜剧 · 虚构 · 讽刺
简介
A collection of satirical essays ridiculing pretentiousness through imitation.
作者
Max Beerbohm
语言
English
类型
讽刺 · 短篇
The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
简介
The meta-fictional commentary on the life of “famous” German philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh and his Philosophy of Clothes.
作者
Thomas Carlyle
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
Or, an Oxford Love Story
简介
A beautiful magician unsuspectingly casts her charms on quiet Oxford.
作者
Max Beerbohm
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺
简介
An Abyssinian prince embarks on adventures while exploring the meaning of happiness.
作者
Samuel Johnson
语言
English
类型
讽刺
简介
A poor Irish rogue tries to win fame and fortune in the 18th-century English aristocracy.
作者
William Makepeace Thackeray
语言
English
类型
虚构 · 讽刺