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  • A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

    de 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 ... Leer más

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

    de 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) ... Leer más

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  • A Voyage to Cacklogallina

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

    de 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 ... Leer más

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    On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

    de Sir Thomas More ...
    Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516 in Latin. His Utopia is a fictional island, whose society, religion and politics he explores. Critics do not believe that the island depicted More's idea of the perfect society, but rather that he hoped to throw the politics of his own time into a new light by contrasting them with his imagined island society. The work references Plato's Republic. ... Leer más

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  • Oroonoko

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave

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    de 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' ... Leer más

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  • Oroonoko

    Or, The Royal Slave, A True Story

    de Aphra Behn ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    The bestselling story by a legendary female writer--a tale of love, slavery, and rebellion.When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his ... Leer más

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  • The Isle of Pines

    A Late Discovery of a Fourth Island near Terra Australis Incognita

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • New Atlantis

    de Francis Bacon ...
    The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and organisation of his ideal college, Solomon's House, envisioned the modern research university in both applied and pure sciences. ... Leer más

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