Satire, English books

The English Spy: An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life

C. M. Westmacott

The English Spy is a sprawling satirical panorama that stitches together sketches, scenes, and anecdotes from…

The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.

P. H. Ditchfield

The work is a sprawling, pseudo‑scholarly satire that pretends to present the “original researches” of a…

Volpone; Or, The Fox

Ben Jonson

Volpone; Or, The Fox is a 17th‑century English comedy that blends sharp satire with the conventions of…

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)

Henry Carey

This work is a pair of eighteenth‑century satirical pamphlets, A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) and…

English Satires

The volume presents a curated survey of English satire, spanning from the medieval pilgrim verses of William…

The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces

Jonathan Swift

The work is a satirical essay collection that opens with a sprawling biographical sketch of Jonathan Swift,…

The Chronicles of Clovis

Saki

The Chronicles of Clovis gathers Saki’s short‑story satire into a single volume, opening with a reflective…

A Tale of a Tub

Jonathan Swift

A Satire Anthology

The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers

Jonathan Swift

Lambkin's Remains

Hilaire Belloc

The Rolliad, in Two Parts Probationary Odes for the Laureatship & Political Eclogues

Tickell, Richard; Ellis, George; Laurence, French; Richardson, Joseph

Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire

Edward Jenkins

Headlong Hall

Thomas Love Peacock

The Fitz-Boodle Papers

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Infernal Marriage

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Mercy of Allah

Hilaire Belloc

Memories of the future: Being memoirs of the years 1915‒1972, written in the year of grace 1988

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox

The Academy Keeper Or Variety of useful Directions Concerning the Management of an Academy, The Terms, Diet, Lodging, Recreation, Discipline, and Instruction of Young Gentlemen. With the Proper Methods of addressing Parents and Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions

Anonymous

The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco

Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke