Bibliograph

The malcontents, the best bitter, cynical, and satirical writing in the world, edited, with commentary, by Joe Queenan

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The malcontents, the best bitter, cynical, and satirical writing in the world, edited, with commentary, by Joe Queenan

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The malcontents

Responsibility statement

edited, with commentary, by Joe Queenan

Sub title

the best bitter, cynical, and satirical writing in the world

Table Of Contents

The birds / Aristophanes -- Satire I / Juvenal -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Gargantua and Pantagruel : selections / Francois Rabelais -- Don Quixote : selections / Miguel de Cervantes -- Volpone / Ben Jonson -- The bourgeois gentleman / Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- Candide / Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) -- Justine : or the misfortunes of Virtue : excerpt / Marquis de Sade (Comte Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade) -- Lady Susan / Jane Austen -- The nose / Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol -- English as she is taught ; Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses ; Marjorie Fleming, the wonder child ; In defense of Harriet Shelley ; A medieval romance ; The story of the good little boy ; The grateful poodle and sequel / Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) -- Killed at Resaca ; Oil of dog ; An imperfect conflagration ; My favorite murder ; The boarded window ; The lion and the thorn ; A revolt of the gods / Ambrose Bierce -- The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- Mrs. Warren's profession / George Bernard Shaw -- The reticence of Lady Anne ; The quest ; Shock tactics ; Hyacinth ; Tobermory / Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) -- Irish times : selections / Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)

Target audience

adult

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