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40 titles tagged Satire. Practice typing with real literature — not random drills.
Gullible’s Travels
Ring Lardner
An exasperated Chicago husband and his status-hungry wife attempt to climb the social ladder in six comic misadventures.
June Moon
Ring Lardner
A lyricist moves to New York City aspiring to make it big on Tin Pan Alley.
Short Fiction
Ring Lardner
A collection of short stories by Ring Lardner.
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Oscar Wilde
A witty comedy that subverts the harsh social codes of Victorian England.
A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
A mother’s secretive past clashes with high society when her son is offered an irresistible position with a charismatic nobleman.
Fred Gross Stories
Ring Lardner
A police detective attempts to live the American dream in the Chicago suburbs.
The Little Nugget
P. G. Wodehouse
The ambitious fiancée of an English gentleman asks him to kidnap the son of an American businessman from boarding school, before professional kidnappers get to him first.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. Forster
After an English widow on holiday impetuously falls in love with a handsome young Tuscan, her panicked in-laws send a rescue party.
The Coming of Bill
P. G. Wodehouse
A domineering author of books on eugenics and hygiene makes a match between her niece and an idle artist, intending them to raise a son according to her principles, regardless of the consequences.
Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh
A young man in Roaring Twenties London endures ups and downs in varied situations and relationships.
The Walls of Jericho
Rudolph Fisher
A black lawyer attempts to move into an exclusively white neighborhood.
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm
A beautiful magician unsuspectingly casts her charms on quiet Oxford.
Jack Keefe Stories
Ring Lardner
A boastful, nearly illiterate major league pitcher writes a series of letters home detailing the goings-on in his life and career.
Captain Jinks, Hero
Ernest Howard Crosby
A jingoistic military officer embarks on a tragicomic quest to become a “perfect soldier.”
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
An ambitious young woman chafes against the constraints of small-town America.
Martin Eden
Jack London
A young working-class man sets out to become a bourgeois writer.
Dodsworth
Sinclair Lewis
A newly-retired businessman’s peaceful European trip falls apart as his wife chases high European society.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
A comedy skewering Victorian high society.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm
A collection of satirical essays ridiculing pretentiousness through imitation.
Democracy
Henry Adams
A wealthy New York widow moves to Washington, DC, hoping to get “to the heart of the great American mystery of democracy and government.”
Candide
Voltaire
A witty satire that tells of the young Candide’s attempts to stay optimistic through a series of incredible hardships.
The Indiscreet Jewels
Denis Diderot
The Sultan of the Congo brings about philosophical inquiry and scandal when he is granted a magical ring that permits him to compel speech from the vaginas of the women of his court.
Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley
Several connected stories are interwoven to create a satirical look at English society.
Evelina
Fanny Burney
A young woman navigates the absurdities of 18th-century English society, fends off various suitors, and attempts to establish her true parentage.
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
A young girl with an overactive imagination comes of age.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock
A humorous account of life in the fictional small town of Mariposa.
Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley
A young writer travels to an English countryside manor to spend the summer alongside a cast of outlandish leisure class intellectuals.
Black No More
George Schuyler
A medical process that makes black people look white revolutionizes American society.
Those Barren Leaves
Aldous Huxley
An aristocrat summons a group of “intelligentsia” to vacation in her Italian mansion.
The Mercy of Allah
Hilaire Belloc
An entrepreneurial businessman satirically relates to his nephews how he became the wealthiest man in Baghdad.
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts
Robert Williams Wood
A physicist writes and illustrates a collection of humorous poems responding to the Nature Fakers controversy.
Penguin Island
Anatole France
A myopic saint mistakenly baptizes some penguins, ushering in a centuries-spanning satire of French history.
The Devil’s Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
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.
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace Thackeray
A poor Irish rogue tries to win fame and fortune in the 18th-century English aristocracy.
Short Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe
A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, ordered by date of publication.
Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy
A man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up over a century later in a socialist utopia.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Samuel Johnson
An Abyssinian prince embarks on adventures while exploring the meaning of happiness.
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
An Englishman travels to fictional islands where he meets tiny people, giants, magicians and talking horses.
Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle
The meta-fictional commentary on the life of “famous” German philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh and his Philosophy of Clothes.
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Rudolph Erich Raspe
The legendary Baron Munchausen’s tall tales of wonder and adventure.