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Title:

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

Publisher:

Running Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

1053 ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Satire--History and criticism.
Cynicism in literature.
Satire.

Other Authors:

Queenan, Joe
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527. Prince.
Aristophanes. Birds.
Juvenal. Satire I.
Rabelais, Francois, ca. 1490-1553? Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Volpone.
Moliere, 1622-1673. Bourgeois gentleman.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Modest proposal.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Rape of the lock.
Voltaire, 1694-1778. Candide.
Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814. Justine the misfortunes of virtue.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Lady Susan.
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852. Nose.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. English as she is taught.
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? Boarded window.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Picture of Dorian Gray
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 Mrs. Warren's profession.
Saki, 1870-1916. Reticence of Lady Anne.
O'Brien, Flann, 1911-1966. Irish times.

Other Titles:

Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses.
Marjorie Flemming the wonder child.
In defense of Harriet Shelley.
Medieval romance
Story of the good little boy.
Grateful poodle.
Killed at Resaca.
Oil of dog.
Imperfect conflagration.
My favorite murder.
Lion and the thorn.
Revolt of the gods.
Quest.
Shock tactics.
Hyacinth.
Tobermory.

Notes:

Includes biographical essays.

ISBN:

9780762413447
0762413441

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50796209

LCCN:

2002100439

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Ankeny Campus Library-Des Moines Area Community College (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)